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Hiring for the Organization, Not the Job

Dec 19, 1990 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This article by D. Bowen, G. Ledford, Jr. and B. Nathan examines a new approach to selection in which employee are hired to fit the characteristics of an organization, not just the requirements of a particular job.

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Developing Leadership: A Look Ahead

Dec 18, 1990 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Morgan W. McCall, Jr. discusses how dramatic change has stimulated a search for a “new kind of leader,” implying that selection and development of leadership was adequate in the past but that the chosen skills are no longer adequate for today’s world.

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In Transit: From Physician to Manager

Feb 1, 1990 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and Judith A. Clair report that physicians are finding themselves in increasing numbers in significant managerial roles. Successful transition from a role as individual professional to a managerial role is neither automatic nor easy.

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Why Physician Managers Fail

Dec 14, 1989 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

It is no small step to leave behind years of training, apprenticeship, and clinical practice to take on a new profession. Yet that is what increasing numbers of physicians are doing as they enter managerial jobs, as discussed by Morgan W. McCall, Jr., and Judith A. Clair in this article.

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Using Experience to Develop Managerial Talent: A Professional’s Guide to On-the-Job Development

Aug 1, 1989 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Morgan W. McCall, Jr., Esther T. Hutchison, and Virginia Homes discuss how developing top level executive talent is a serious challenge for U.S. corporations, and, according to some experts, essential to the future competitiveness of those firms.

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Personality Measures as a Selection Tool for High Involvement Organizations

Jan 1, 1989 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

R. Nathan, Gerald E. Ledford, David E. Bowen, and Thomas G. Cummings discuss how measures of growth needs and social needs from the Personality Research Form, or PRF (Jackson, 1984) are shown to be a valid selection tool for a high involvement organization, based on the criterion of performance in a content valid pre-employment training program.

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Integrating Academic and Organizational Approaches to Developing the International Manager

Dec 18, 1988 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Michael Finney and Mary Ann Von Glinow state that the emerging global economic environment has produced a new and critical human resource demand, one that will become even more important in the decades ahead–the international manager.

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Women are Minorities in Management

Dec 17, 1988 | Diversity and Inclusion, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Ann M. Morrison and Mary Ann Von Glinow discuss how women and minorities face a “glass ceiling” that limits their advancement toward top management in organizations throughout U.S. society.

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Managerial Values in the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong

Dec 13, 1988 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This paper by Philip H. Birnbaum and Gilbert Y. Y. Wong reports on a study of the managerial values in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong.

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Fatal Industrial Visions: Correcting Tunnel Vision for Long Term Survival in a Global Economy

Nov 1, 1986 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Ian Mitroff and Susan A. Mohrman discuss how all of us are part of a larger social collective from which we derive our fundamental sense of identity, meaning, belonging, and even daily existence.

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Transference and Countertransference in Action Research Relationships

Aug 3, 1984 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Gerald Ledford, Jr. explores transference and countertransference, two concepts from the psychotherapeutic literature, and their relevance to action research relationships is considered.

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Job-Person Dynamics and Career Development

Jun 1, 1984 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

The objective of this paper by Kenneth R. Brousseau is to explore the ways in which work can be utilized for developmental purposes.

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