Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
Robert M. Fulmer and Jay A. Conger, (AMACOM, 2004) ask “Why do so many newly minted leaders fail so spectacularly?” Part of the problem is that in many companies, succession planning is little more than creating a list of high-potential employees and the slots they might fill.
Edward E. Lawler III, David Ulrich, Jac Fitz-enz, James Madden, and Regina Maruca, (Jossey-Bass, 2004) discuss how today’s highly competitive marketplace demands that human resources departments emerge from under their administrative workloads and become full partners in determining their organizations’ winning strategies.
Don Mankin and Susan G. Cohen argue that traditional forms of collaboration are not sufficient for competing effectively in the more complex and dynamic environment of today’s business world.
Edward E. Lawler III and Susan Albers Mohrman discuss how corporations are undergoing dramatic changes with significant implications for how human resources are best managed and organized. There is a growing consensus that human capital is critical to an organization’s success.
Virtual Teams That Work, by Cristina B. Gibson and Susan G. Cohen, offers a much-needed, comprehensive guidebook for business leaders and managers who want to create the organizational conditions that will help virtual teams thrive.
Let one of the nation’s most renowned management experts show you how to make your organization truly great by putting its people first. In Treat People Right!, Edward Lawler explains how companies can move beyond the usual acknowledgment that human capital is their greatest asset to actually making it so.
Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership by Craig L. Pearce and Jay A. Conger brings together the foremost thinkers on the subject and is the first book of its kind to address the conceptual, methodological, and practical issues for shared leadership.
Based on Jay Galbraith’s world-renowned approach to organization design, and featuring a broad selection of practical tips and ready-to-use tools developed by Diane Downey and Amy Kates, Designing Dynamic Organizations gives business leaders at all levels everything they need to implement positive, progressive change.
Jay Galbraith’s new and revised edition of Designing Organizations is a leader’s concise guide to the process of creating and managing an organization – no matter how complex – that will be positioned to respond effectively and rapidly to customer demands and have the ability to achieve unique competitive advantage.
Based on a wide-ranging study of veteran global executives, leadership development experts, Morgan W. McCall and George P. Hollenbeck reveal what it takes for organizations to groom, and individuals to become, successful international executives.
The purpose of Multinational Work Teams: A New Perspective by P. Christopher Earley and Cristina B. Gibson is to extend and consolidate the evolving literature on multinational teams by developing comprehensive theory that incorporates a dynamic, multilevel view of such items. This book will be of interest to scholars in management, organizational behavior, psychology, executive leadership, and human resource management.
Why do some organizations make required changes and achieve new levels of performance successfully, while other units in the same organization seemingly stumble and never achieve new levels of performance? This two-part video produced by Susan A. Mohrman & Serge Lashutka, 2001 reveals how viewing organizational change as a learning process that can be accelerated is the difference.