Material from this post originally appeared in a press release from the Association of ERGs and Councils The 2020 Diversity Impact Award Winners have been announced! The Association of ERGs & Councils (a practice group of PRISM International, Inc. and Talent...
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Organizational Resilience – Immediate & Sustained
As a service to our sponsors, we want to provide clarity on where you can focus to help your teams and organizations through these challenging times. Our Senior Researchers have designed a multidisciplinary approach that spans strategy, organization design, technology systems, data and analytics, leadership, and strategic HR. With your CEO Sponsorship, our team is […]
“What’s My Energy” platform allows for energy tracking and productivity optimization
“What’s My Energy?” Take a test drive to learn more about the daily energy pulsing initiative designed to help you learn and improve your personal energy while coping with the challenges of a pandemic. The new What’s My Energy platform, developed by Dr....
Exponential Talent: A Systems Approach to HR Analytics Podcast
In this podcast, CEO’s Alec Levenson discusses why organizations struggle to derive value from their HR analytics efforts and offers useful suggestions for improvement. He offers ideas that are non-intuitive but have demonstrated results. For example, start with the right questions and the data you have, do not fall into the trap of doing fancy analytics when sometimes simple descriptives are all you need and having analytics-driven insights does not guarantee accurate interpretation. Anyone struggling to get the buy-in for investing in analytics efforts or looking to tighten the link between data-based insights and HR decision making will find value in this podcast.
Leaders Speak Out On Energy and Diversity
The latest edition of the Leadership Pulse™ survey of 200 leaders from firms around the world suggests clear links between executives who optimize their energy, leadership support for diversity, and how teams view their organizations’ diversity initiatives.
Preliminary results of the 2019 HR Global Study
The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) has administered surveys of the human resource function in 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. The results of the surveys yielded important data and publications on how Human Resource departments have operated and changed throughout the years. It is frequently cited and provides valuable information about HR effectiveness. Recently, CEO has completed its ninth study, and fourth global study.
Working for the (three-day) weekend: As more companies experiment with four-day work weeks, could we ever see them in the US?
Alec Levenson, senior research scientist with the Center for Effective Organizations at the Marshall School of Business at USC, discusses on KPCC AirTalk.
Executive Survey Highlights Gaps in Understanding of Drivers of Company Performance
LOS ANGELES – June 3, 2019 – The latest edition of the Leadership Pulse™ survey of 200 leaders from firms around the world suggests widespread misalignment between how the top executives view the drivers of their companies performance and what their direct reports are seeing.
PARTICIPATE IN THE ERG LEADERSHIP SUMMIT SURVEY
PARTICIPATE IN THE ERG LEADERSHIP SUMMIT SURVEY We invite you and your employees to take the survey Take the Survey WHAT IS THE ERG LEADERSHIP SURVEY? Since 2012, the USC Marshall School of Business Center for Effective Organizations has been tracking Employee...
Forbes: Why We Need To Rethink Jobs To Get The Most From AI
In his Forbes article, “Why We Need to Rethink Jobs to Get the Most from AI,” Adi Gaskell references the four steps to successfully apply automation to the workplace in “Revinventing Jobs,” written by CEO’s John Boudreau and Ravin Jesuthasan.
Benjamin Schneider (CEO) selected the winner of the 2017 Walker Prize
We are delighted to announce that Ben Schneider of the Center for Effective Organizations has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Walker Prize (honoring the best paper) for his article “How Companies Can Really Impact Service Quality” in the SHRM publication called People + Strategy.
Ed Lawler discusses the benefits of staff turnover
Is turnover such a bad thing? Ed Lawler discusses the benefits of turnover using methods incorporated by Zappos as an example.