David Finegold and Karin Wagner find that the existence of a highly skilled workforce may deter the adoption of multifunctional work teams, but that countervailing strengths of the German skill-creation system can potentially help firms develop a new, distinctive German production model.
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Adult Learning and Executive Education
Jay Conger and Katherine Xin explain that few efforts have been made to link the field of adult learning to executive education despite the potential for enhancing the impact of programs.
Leadership Development: Contemporary Practice
George P. Hollenbeck and Morgan W. McCall, Jr. speculate on what the current state of the science, art, and practice of leadership development implies for leadership development in the 2000s.
Early Identification of International Executives
This research by Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Morgan W. McCall, Jr., and Joan D. Mahoney extends the traditional approach to the early identification of executives by introducing the notion of ability to learn from experience.
Adding Value in Banking: An Innovative Human Resource Strategy
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.
Human Resource System Effects at Production Facilities in Mexico
Lisa Hope Pelled and Kenneth D. Hill examined human resource system effects on performance and turnover at 40 production facilities in Mexico.
Institutional Effects on Skill Creation: A Comparison of Management Development in the U.S. and Germany
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.
Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders: A Field Study
In this paper, Gretchen Spreitzer and Robert E. Quinn describe a field study of a large scale management development program for a Fortune 100 organization’s population of middle managers designed to stimulate change.
Strategic Human Resources Management: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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.
The Impact of Individual Differences on the Socialization of Workers to a Technological Intervention
This study by K. Michele Kacmar, Patrick M. Wright, and Gary C. McMahan examined the role of ability, motivation, and their interactions in the effectiveness of the use of training as a socialization tool.
New Directions for the Human Resources Organization
This landmark book, one of the most cited volumes on the topic of motivation in the workplace, defines Edward Lawler’s basic philosophy: in order to have effective organizations, we must understand how to motivate and encourage effective individual performance.
Job Design: A Contemporary Review and Future Prospects
The purpose of this chapter by Ricky W. Griffin and Gary C. McMahan is to summarize the historical development of job design theory and research, describe current theory and research regarding job design, and suggest new directions that job design theory and research might more fruitfully pursue in the future.
