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The Role of Top Management in Large Scale Change: The View From Within

May 8, 1998 | Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Sue Mohrman argues that top management should focus on organizational architecture, on leading the learning process, on providing very clear strategic direction, and on building a new employment relationship.

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Strategic Orientations, Incentive Plan Adoptions and Firm Performance: Evidence from Electric Utility Firms

Dec 13, 1996 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Nadini Rajagopalan addresses the topic of executive compensation, one that has fascinated both academic researchers and the business press for the past several decades.

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Transforming the Human Resources Function

Aug 9, 1996 | Future of HR, Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Sue Mohrman and Ed Lawler state that the emergence of the global economy, overcapacity in many industries, monumental improvements in the power of computer and telecommunications tools, and the emergence of the knowledge economy are among the forces that are resulting in fundamental change in the design of organizations.

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Towards a Theory of Strategic Change: A Multi-Lens Perspective and Integrative Framework

Jul 4, 1996 | Change Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Nandini Rajagopalan and Gretchen M. Spreitzer provide a comprehensive review of the strategic change literature from three theoretical lenses: the rational, learning, and cognitive lenses.

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Adding Value in Banking: An Innovative Human Resource Strategy

Mar 10, 1996 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

Brent Keltner and David Finegold state that raising levels of human capital investment to improve the quality of service delivery can be done but it requires restructuring recruiting and training practices in light of institutional constraints.

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Strategy, Core Competencies and HR Involvement as Determinants of HR Effectiveness and Refinery Performance

Nov 17, 1995 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

Patrick M. Wright, Gary C. McMahan, Blaine McCormick, and W. Scott Sherman examined the impact strategy, core competence, and involvement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery managers’ evaluation of the effectiveness of HR and refinery performance among 86 U.S. petro-chemical refineries.

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Institutional Effects on Skill Creation: A Comparison of Management Development in the U.S. and Germany

May 31, 1995 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

David Finegold and Brent Keltner explain that changes in requirements for competitive success in the global economy have led political economists to devote greater attention to shifts in corporate strategy and differences in education and training, primarily for production workers, across the industrialized countries.

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The New Pay: A Strategic Approach

Mar 3, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Ed Lawler III states that the “New Pay” is not alternative pay. It is not skill-based pay, gainsharing or any other specific new pay practice. Indeed, it is not a set of new practices, rather, it is a way of thinking about role pay systems in complex organizations.

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Strategic Human Resources Management: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Jan 1, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

E. Lawler III states that when training costs and other human resource management costs are added to compensation costs, the human resource management function often is responsible for a large portion of an organizations total expenditures.

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On the Integration of Strategy and Human Resources: An Investigation of the Match between Human Resources and Strategy among NCAA Basketball Teams

Dec 17, 1994 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

Patrick M. Wright, Dennis Smart, and Gary C. McMahan examine the relationships among strategy, human resources, and performance among NCAA basketball teams.

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Systems are Not Solutions: Issues in Creating Information Systems that Account for the Human Organization

Sep 9, 1994 | Employee Engagement, HR Analytics, Innovation, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Uncategorized

Edward E. Lawler III, Philip H. Mirvis
1981 (republished 1994)

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The Effects of Inquiry Paradigms on Inquirers: A Study of the Impact of Different Inquiry Methods and Topics on Two Groups of Consulting Teams

Apr 22, 1994 | Employee Resource Groups, Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Uncategorized

Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi, Tojo J. Thachankary, Frank J. Barrett, and Michael R. Manning investigated the impact of two different guiding schemas about organizations and topics of inquiry, on two groups of consulting teams.

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