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Minding Your Metaphors: Applying the Concept of Teamwork Metaphors to the Management of Teams in Multicultural Contexts

Jul 13, 2002 | Innovation, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Cristina B. Gibson and Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn state that managers who struggle with implementing teams across cultures can use metaphor as a tool to unlock teaming expectations and guide teaming practice.

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Work/Life Balance: Wisdom or Whining

Jul 12, 2002 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Edy Greenblatt shares how President George W. Bush, a home-based pharmaceutical sales representative, and a Club Med flying trapeze instructor have at least one thing in common. For each, the ability to manage the work/life balance demands on themselves and their key employees’ is a strategic imperative.

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Harvesting What They Grow: Can Firms Get a Return on Investments in General Skills?

May 16, 2002 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

D. Finegold, G. Benson, and S. Mohrman explain that economic theory predicts that firms will not invest in developing employees’ general skills because unlike investments in physical capital, this human capital can walk out the door at any time. Companies, however, are spending billions of dollars each year on general education and training programs.

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A Temporary Route to Advancement? The Career Opportunities for Low-Skilled Workers in Temporary Employment

Apr 9, 2002 | Innovation, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

D. Finegold, A. Levenson, and M. Van Buren explain that the rapid growth of the temporary staffing industry in the 1990s poses a paradox to researchers interested in the labor market for low-skilled workers.

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Developing Global Executives: The Lessons of International Experience

Jan 1, 2002 | Talent Management

Based on a wide-ranging study of veteran global executives, leadership development experts, Morgan W. McCall and George P. Hollenbeck reveal what it takes for organizations to groom, and individuals to become, successful international executives.

Investing in Workers’ Basic Skills: Lessons from Company-Funded Workplace-Based Programs

Nov 3, 2001 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This monograph by Alec Levenson is written for those interested in promoting company-funded workplace basic skills programs.

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The Employment Outcomes and Advancement of Temporary Workers

Sep 19, 2001 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec Levenson and David Finegold discuss how most research on temporary jobs focuses either on companies’ motivations for using temps or point-in-time comparisons of temp and non-temp jobs. Both types of approach seek to shed insights into the opportunities available to those who work as temps.

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Perceptual Distance: The Impact of Differences in Team Leader and Member Perceptions Across Cultures

May 4, 2000 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this chapter, C. Gibson, J. Conger, and C. Cooper propose a theory of perceptual distance and its implications for team leadership and team outcomes.

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Individualizing the Organization: Past, Present and Future

Nov 14, 1999 | Future of HR, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

E. Lawler and D. Finegold discuss that one approach to attracting, retaining, and motivating employees is to individualize the relationship they have with an organization.

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To Stay or to Go: Voluntary Survivor Turnover Following an Organizational Downsizing

Oct 11, 1999 | Change Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This paper by Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Aneil K. Mishra examines how survivor reactions to a downsizing influence their retention with a firm two years following a downsizing.

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Preserving Commitment During Downsizing: Examining the Mitigating Effects of Trust and Empowerment

Oct 10, 1999 | Change Management, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Drawing on Lazarus and Folkman’s (1984) stress theory, Gretchen Spreitzer and Aneil K. Mishra hypothesize that the negative effects of downsizing on commitment can be mitigated when trust and empowerment are high.

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Consulting to Team-Based Organizations: An Organizational Design and Learning Approach

Aug 9, 1999 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

S. Mohrman and K. Quam discuss how team-based organizations follow a different logic from traditional hierarchical organizations that rely primarily on individuals as the primary performing unit.

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