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What distinguishes the Millennial generation from Generation X at work?

Aug 11, 2013 | Talent Management

Jennifer J. Deal (Center for Creative Leadership), Alec R. Levenson (CEO), and George S. Benson (University of Texas) answer the questions, “So what drives organizational commitment, helps Gen Xers and Millennials thrive, and improves retention? And what do organizations need to know about what is different for Millennials and Gen Xers, so they can most effectively address the needs of each generation?”

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What works for leading the new multi-generational workforce

Aug 10, 2013 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec R. Levenson (CEO), George S. Benson (University of Texas), and Jennifer J. Deal (Center for Creative Leadership) recently completed a global research project that provides the most comprehensive view of the multi-generational workforce to date.

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Leveraging the Secrets of Memory Champions to Craft Memorable Messages, 2/7/13, Audio/Slides

Feb 7, 2013 | Innovation, Strategy Execution, Talent Management

How many meetings have you attended where you literally forgot most of what you had just heard by the meeting’s end? In this webinar, Jay Conger explored how to make the message behind your presentations endure far beyond the meeting. He covered the techniques developed by memory champions which you can deploy in your own presentations.

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Workforce Planning Across the Great Divide

Jan 3, 2013 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Ian Ziskin (CEO) argue that even today’s most sophisticated SWP systems often focus solely on the workforce, using frameworks and tools that are largely in the domain of human resources management, and often provide the majority of their information about the HR function and its processes and activities.

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Effective Human Resource Management: A Global Analysis

Jul 4, 2012 | Strategic HR, Talent Management

Ed Lawler and John Boudreau measure how HR management is changing, paying particular attention to what creates a successful HR function–one that contributes to a strategic partnership and overall organizational effectiveness.

Talent Management: Challenges of building crossfunctional capability in high performance work systems environments

Jan 3, 2012 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec R. Levenson (CEO) discusses how occupational dissimilarity is a measure of the overlap in education, skills and experience across two disciplines.

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Who’s buying the company stock? An investigation into identity and stock purchase plan participation in a newly public firm

Jan 2, 2012 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Most of the research on employee ownership or employee stock plan participation investigates the effects of such forms of ownership on employee attitudes. In order to supplement that literature, Theresa M. Welbourne’s (CEO) study explores the effect of a set of employee attitudes (work related identity) on the decision to participate in an employee stock purchase plan.

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The Role-Based Identity Scale: Towards a Parsimonious Measure of Work-Related Identity

Jan 1, 2012 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

The study of identity has, to date, been primarily in the realm of social psychology, and as a result, little work has been done on work-related identity. Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) introduces a new measure of identity that taps into five work-related roles.

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It’s Individuals, Not Generations, That Matter

Sep 17, 2011 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) examines how an entire industry has emerged dedicated to describing (and in some cases, stereotyping) the Gen-X, Y, boomers, silent, greatest and millennial generations and how they should be managed.

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Effective Talent Management

Sep 15, 2011 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) share that sustainability initiatives and corporate social responsibility programs are a possible first step toward developing organizations that are able to perform well financially, socially, and environmentally, what we like to call sustainable effectiveness.

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The Chief HR Officer: Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders

Apr 15, 2011 | Talent Management

Patrick M. Wright, John W. Boudreau, David A. Pace, Elizabeth “Libby” Sartain, Paul McKinnon, Richard L. Antoine, Editors (Jossey-Bass, 2011) The Chief HR Officer offers the most current thinking on the evolving role of the chief human resource officer (CHRO).

Talent Management – How do you find and develop top talent?

Mar 21, 2011 | Leadership, Talent Management

CEO Executive in Residence Ian Ziskin discussed the factors that characterize a Talenterprise (TM), an organization that is particularly effective at finding and developing talent, as well as his new book, WillBe: 13 Reasons WillBe’s are Luckier than WannaBe’s, which outlines what distinguishes up and coming high potentials from other people.

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