Research and Insights Archive

Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations

Available Content

Books
Editorials
News
Webinars
Working Papers

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.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders: A Field Study

May 12, 1995 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

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.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

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.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

The Impact of Individual Differences on the Socialization of Workers to a Technological Intervention

Jun 25, 1994 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

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.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

New Directions for the Human Resources Organization

Apr 15, 1994 | Compensation and Benefits, Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Talent Management

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

Oct 20, 1993 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

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.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Designing Work Teams

Oct 1, 1993 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Susan Mohrman explains that designing organizations in which the work team is the focal performing unit began in earnest in production settings, where “new design plants” (Lawler, 1978) or “high commitment work systems” (Walton, 1985) emerged in the 1970’s and are now widely used (Lawler, Mohrman and Ledford, 1993).

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

From Job-Based to Competency-Based Organizations

Jul 1, 1993 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This article by Edward Lawler III challenges the basic assumption that jobs should be the fundamental building block of organizations. It stresses that with the new forms of organizations and the new demands organizations should be built around competencies not jobs.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

A Perspective on Empowerment

Jun 1, 1993 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Susan Mohrman explains that the term “empowerment” has come to express in many managers’ minds the essence of new approaches to management that are believed to be capable of delivering higher levels of performance by tapping into the energies and enthusiasm of employees.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

A New Logic for Organization: Implications for Higher Education

Apr 1, 1993 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This research by Edward Lawler III and Susan Mohrman seeks a different path in route to understanding potential. Changing tacks is based on the assumption that the qualities one finds in the mature international executive are NOT necessarily the same qualities we should be looking for in high potentials.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Identifying Leadership Potential in Future International Executives: Developing a Concept

Mar 1, 1993 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Morgan McCall asks the questions “What does it mean to have “potential” as an international executive? Of the seemingly endless list of attributes that might serve an executive well, which ones should you look for in a high potential manager?”

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Japanese Transplants

Dec 20, 1990 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Jay R. Galbraith discusses how in the 1980s the Japanese began a high level of direct investment in the United States. There was a great deal of interest in how successful their style of management would be outside of Japan.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

« Older Entries

Next Entries »