Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
This session addresses the challenges of evaluating human capital investments vs. investments in other ways of doing the work, including the comparisons of: 1) Human capital competencies vs. machine capabilities; and 2) Workforce performance vs. machine performance.
Through global data trends and themes this session will focus upon: 1) The effect on employee engagement during the pandemic; 2) Which areas of employee engagement have changed and become more important?; and 3) the impact on different types of workers.
In this session, we will review these recent developments in the market for talent from both a historical and current-day perspective.
In this session, we will explore and discuss the effects of loneliness on workplace effectiveness, the multiplicity of risk factors for workplace loneliness, and future organizational considerations to improve workforce sustainability and effectiveness.
April 5- 8, 2022
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Speakers: Dr. Alec Levenson and Beth Gunderson
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, business model execution has been hampered by continued disruptions to operations and talent markets. The simultaneous challenges of managing supply chain disruptions, fluctuating consumer demand, and uncertainty over the future of in-person work have added major complexity to the expertise needed for successful strategy execution.
This session will explore learnings, examples and case studies: How to measure culture through quantitative behavior diagnostic and analytics; How did workplace culture help organizations navigate or hinder their response to the pandemic; What are the behavioral changes required to align culture with strategy
This session presents a new approach for designing both HR and People Analytics operating models which address current operating limitations.
This session the group will discuss three key areas companies need to address in return-to-work and hybrid work plans to maintain and increase productivity: (a) developing the “weak ties” that facilitate collaboration, (b) online team formation, and (c) supporting new employees.
The Optimizing the Operating Model Workshop provides solutions to diagnosing the barriers to improved organizational performance with analytics, systems diagnostics and design thinking. Specific applications to digital work transformation and digital product transformation will be featured.
Virtual Event
Feb 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, & 23 (2022)
8am – 11am PT / 11am – 2pm ET
The history of knowledge management systems is littered with attempts to capture information in online repositories which are infrequently used. And collaboration across space and org silos has always been a challenge. Recent adoption at work of social media-type platforms to solve both collaboration and knowledge management challenges has created a new way information can be exchanged and housed. Can these new internal platforms be better at promoting collaboration and knowledge management? Are there potential downsides in terms of team and interpersonal dynamics?