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Nine Principles for Sustainable Talent Management

Mar 20, 2011 | Sponsor Content, Sustainability, Talent Management

Talent management is arguably the single most important HR activity in a sustainable management organization (SMO).This article by Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) describes nine principles and practices that should drive the way talent is managed in SMOs.

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Creating Sustainable-Effective Businesses

Mar 7, 2011 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) talk about necessary steps and give example of companies making themselves into sustainably effective organizations.

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Loblaw Sustainable Seafood Initiative

Feb 6, 2011 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Sustainability

Barbara Steele (Strategic Partnerships) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw) is a Canadian chain of food supermarkets, the largest retailer of grocery and household products in the country

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Using Targeted Analytics to Improve Talent Decisions

Jan 3, 2011 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec R. Levenson (CEO) shares that analytics and metrics offer great potential to improve the quality of decision making on HR and human capital issues in organizations.

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Engaged in What? So What? A Role-Based Perspective for the Future of Employee Engagement

Jan 2, 2011 | Employee Engagement, Future of HR, Sponsor Content

The point made in this chapter by Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) is that employee engagement is an effort worth pursuing . It puts a name on something we know matters to people, society and business. However, in this chapter the suggestion will be made that employee engagement is not a construct at all.

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HR: Time for a Reset

Jan 1, 2011 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Uncategorized

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explains that in many cases HR ends up doing a considerable amount of HR administrative work in order to take the “burden” off line managers. It may mean that HR is no longer a BPU (business prevention unit) and that it has a seat at the table.

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Fast HRM: Confidence, Energy and Engagement

Nov 19, 2010 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

In this particular Leadership Pulse Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) studied a topic we have been doing quite a bit of work on called fast human resource management (HRM). We asked respondents to rate the degree to which HR is fast and also score how accurate the HR group is.

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Huron Hospital: Leading with Sustainability to Create a High-Performing System

Nov 18, 2010 | Sponsor Content, Sustainability

What do high-performance systems and sustainability initiatives mean to a leader’s role? In this case, Arienne McCracken (CEO) and Susan Albers Mohrman (CEO) introduce a leader, Gus Kious, who took the reins of a poorly performing hospital and describe his actions and successes.

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A Physician First

Nov 17, 2010 | Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Susan Albers Mohrman (CEO) and Arienne McCracken (CEO)
Shared leadership does not naturally occur. In the case of Jeff Weisz, Executive Medical Director of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, it reflects his and his team’s understanding that today’s world demands many leaders collaborating to lead an organization to greatness.

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Performance Management: Creating an Effective Appraisal System

Nov 16, 2010 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explains that the existence of an effective performance management system is often the major differentiator between organizations that produce adequate results and those that excel. Without a focus on performance management at all levels of an organization, it is hard to see how an organization can find a competitive advantage that is based on its talent.

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Organization Studies as Applied Science: The Generation and Use of Academic Knowledge about Organizations (Introduction to the Special Issue)

Sep 15, 2010 | Future of HR, Sponsor Content

In this introduction to the special issue, Paula Jarzabkowski (Aston), Susan Albers Mohrman (CEO), and Andreas Georg Scherer (University of Zurich) apply philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives to examine the challenges of studying the generation and use of academic knowledge.

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Emotions, Values, and Methodology: Contributing to the Nature of the World We Live In Whether We Intend To or Not

Sep 14, 2010 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Susan Albers Mohrman (CEO) explains that traditional management research has advocated arms‐length, systematic studies that treat organizations and the people in them as subjects.

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