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Built for Talent

Dec 25, 2007 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) shares that survey after survey has found that executives believe finding and developing the right talent should be one of their top priorities and that their company’s human resources are one of their most important assets.

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Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital

Dec 4, 2007 | Future of HR, Talent Management

Beyond HR (John W. Boudreau and Peter M. Ramstad (Harvard Business School Press, 2007)) shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions, strategically differentiate their HR practices and metrics, and more optimally allocate talent to create value.

What if – Organizations Were Built for Talent?

Oct 23, 2007 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explains that for at least the last decade, it’s been hard to pick up a business book, article, or corporate annual report without seeing statements that stress the importance of human capital— people.

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Measuring and Maximizing the Business Impact of Executive Coaching

Sep 22, 2007 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This article by Alec R. Levenson (CEO) addresses the conceptual and methodological issues involved in measuring the business impact of executive coaching.

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Crafting a Path Toward Mastery: Turning a Personal Leadership Development Plan into Something

Sep 21, 2007 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Morgan W. McCall, Jr. (USC) attempts to describe an alternative approach to creating a personal plan for developing leadership ability.

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Developing the Expert Leader

Sep 20, 2007 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this article, Morgan W. McCall, Jr. (USC) and George P. Hollenbeck (Hollenbeck and Associates) look at leadership through the lens of expertise and relate the findings of a wide range of research on experts, expertise, and expert performance to how we think about leaders and leadership development.

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Is Expatriation Good for My Career? The Impact of Expatriate Assignments on Perceived and Actual Career Outcomes

May 18, 2007 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This study by George S. Benson (University of Texas) and Marshall Pattie (Towson University) examines the impact of expatriate assignments on career growth and the external marketability of U.S. employees of a large professional services firm.

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The Impact of Social Capital on the Development of Transactive Memories Multilevel Group Knowledge Systems

Jan 7, 2007 | Employee Engagement, Talent Management, Uncategorized

In this paper by Yu Connie Yuan (Cornell University), Peter Monge, and Janet Fulk, a multilevel, multi-theoretical model of transactive memory theory was developed by integrating the emergence model with social capital theories.

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The Strength of Occupation Indicators as Proxy for Skill

Dec 17, 2006 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this paper, Alec R. Levenson (CEO) and Cindy Zoghi (US Bureau of Labor Statistics) consider whether inter-occupational wage differentials that are unexplained by measured human capital are indeed due to differences in often-unmeasured skill.

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Measuring the Productivity of Software Development in a Globally Distributed Company

Dec 16, 2006 | Change Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec R. Levenson (CEO) discusses how the trend toward outsourcing that has been emblazoned in the headlines and covers of newspapers and magazines in recent years started with software development.

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Informal Developmental Experiences and Career Success: A Study of Qualitative Differences in Work Experience

Aug 14, 2006 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

George S. Benson (University of Texas), Alec R. Levenson (CEO), and John W. Boudreau (CEO) This study examines the informal developmental experiences and career success of current and former employees of a large professional services firm.

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Occupational Human Capital and Career Dynamics

Aug 13, 2006 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this paper Alec R. Levenson (CEO), George S. Benson (University of Texas), and John W. Boudreau (CEO) revisit the concept of human capital accumulated on the job to allow functionally-specific and managerial human capital to coexist in a job or person.

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