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Performance Management and Reward Systems

Jun 10, 2012 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO), George S. Benson (University of Texas), and Michael McDermott (McDermott Sitzman & Associates, PC) Results from our survey provide clear guidance with respect to linking performance appraisals results to changes in pay. They strongly support the view that performance appraisals systems are more effective when there is a connection between the results of a performance appraisal and the compensation of individuals.

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What Makes Performance Appraisals Effective?

Jun 9, 2012 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO), George S. Benson (University of Texas), and Michael McDermott (McDermott Sitzman & Associates, PC) Performance appraisals are often criticized and poorly done. However, they are not going away and should not go away. They are needed in order to effectively manage an organization’s talent. Our research suggests that performance management systems can be effective if they are designed and executed correctly.

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Performance Where It Matters

Jun 8, 2012 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This article by Tom Williams (Booz & Company) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) focuses on two related management concerns: (1) is consistent/sustained high performance possible and (2) what might account for it?

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Sustained High Performance and the Role of Agility

Jun 7, 2012 | Agility, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Tom Williams (Booz & Company), Chris Worley (CEO), Niko Canner (Booz & Company) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explain that “Competitive environments change continuously, and the pace of change continues to increase. Yet some companies in every industry show superior performance relative to their peers over very long periods of time. Does your company have the agility required to keep up?”

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Large-Group Interventions: An Empirical Field Study of Their Composition, Process, and Outcomes

Mar 6, 2012 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Large group interventions are an important method of organization change. This paper by Christopher G. Worley (CEO), Susan A. Mohrman (CEO), and Jennifer Nevitt (Microsoft) received the McGregor Award for the outstanding contribution to the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science for 2011.

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Strategic Industrial-Organizational Psychology Lies Beyond HR

Feb 5, 2012 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

In this commentary, John W. Boudreau (CEO) suggests that extending ”beyond HR” and within strategy may offer ways for I-O professionals to further develop the vital linkages between their work and organizational success.

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How HR Spends Its Time: It is Time for a Change

Feb 4, 2012 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

Over the last 15 years, the Center for Effective Organizations has surveyed HR leaders every three years regarding the HR profession, the role of HR professionals, the nature of the HR function, and the effectiveness of the HR function.

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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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Conducting Action Research

Sep 19, 2011 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content

Alec R. Levenson (CEO) and Wenhong Zhang (Nanjing University) provide a review of and guide to conducting action research: what it is, the benefits of it, examples, and how to do it.

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It is Time to Get It Right

Sep 18, 2011 | Employee Equity, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) discusses how the U.S. auto industry and the UAW union have begun negotiating their new collective bargaining agreements.

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