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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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Organization Development within the Firm: A Survey of the 500 Largest Industrials

Jan 6, 1994 | Change Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Gary C. McMahan and Richard W. Woodman conducted a study in which the 500 largest industrial firms in the United States were surveyed with regard to their internal Organization Development (OD) practice.

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Strategic Human Resource Management: Alternative Theoretical Frameworks

Nov 30, 1993 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

This article by Patrick M. Wright and Gary C. McMahan attempts to further the theoretical development of SHRM through discussing six theoretical models (behavioral perspective, cybernetic models, agency/transaction cost theory, resource-based view of the firm, power/resource dependence models, and institutional theory) that are useful for understanding both strategic and non-strategic determinants of HR practices.

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Human Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Resource-Based Perspective

Nov 30, 1993 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

This paper by Patrick M. Wright, Gary C. McMahan, and Abagail McWilliams integrates the theories and findings of micro-level organizational behavior/human resource management research with the macro-level resource-based view of the firm, specifically presenting a firm’s human resources as an important potential source of sustained competitive advantage.

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The Practice of Organization Development: A Survey of the 500 Largest Service Firms

Oct 28, 1993 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

In this study by Gary C. McMahan, Richard W. Woodman, and Ana Moreno, the 500 largest service firms in the United States were surveyed with regard to their internal Organization Development (OD) practice.

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Effective Reward Systems: Strategy, Diagnosis, Design and Change

May 1, 1993 | Change Management, Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Edward Lawler III provides a basic framework for the description of an organization’s reward system.

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