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Millennials and the World of Work: An Economist’s Perspective

Nov 13, 2009 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This article by Alec R. Levenson (CEO) uses an economic approach to address whether and how the Millennial generation is significantly different from its predecessors.

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Agility and Organization Design: A Diagnostic Framework

Nov 12, 2009 | Agility, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This article by Christopher G. Worley (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) describes one comprehensive agility framework called “built to change” and the diagnostic process developed to assess an organization’s agility.

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Fast HR

Oct 1, 2009 | Agility, Sponsor Content

Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) explains that Fast HR is a growing body of work that spells out ways HR can change to meet the needs of today’s fast-growth and high change organizations.

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Are Executives Paid Too Much?

Sep 10, 2009 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) shares that for several decades there as has been an on again off again debate about whether executives in U.S. corporations are paid too much. Recently, the issue has come front and center as a result of the high bonus pay outs to executives in some major financial institutions.

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Valour Pulse and Energy Pulse

Sep 1, 2009 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Theresa M. Welbourne’s (CEO) Valour Pulse and Energy Pulse questions are based on over 20 years of research on what drives firm performance.

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Recasting Leadership Development

Aug 9, 2009 | Leadership, Sponsor Content

This article by Morgan W. McCall, Jr.(USC) begins with seven reasonably sure bets about the role of experience in leadership development, ponders the reasons that what is known is so rarely applied, suggests some things that can be done to put experience at the center of development, and concludes with recommendations for practice and for research.

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Why are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

Jul 7, 2009 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

In this chapter Alec R. Levenson (CEO), Michael Gibbs, and Cindy Zoghi study job design. Do organizations plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go?

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Fixing Executive Compensation: Right Time, Wrong Approach

Apr 8, 2009 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) shares that as a result of the executive compensation regulations imposed on companies taking TARP funding and the AIG bonus payments, the door has been opened for increased federal regulation of executive compensation.

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Reducing Labor Costs: Choosing the Right Approach

Apr 1, 2009 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) states that CEOs are increasingly saying that their companies’ human capital is its most important asset. It is also obvious that it is many companies’ largest business expense.

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Dealing with Rough Times: A Capabilities Development Approach to Surviving and Thriving

Mar 5, 2009 | Agility, Change Management, Sponsor Content

Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) state that during rapid change and extreme threat, steering the ship is not sufficient. Leaders must introduce approaches that tap the energies of employees throughout the organization.

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Action Research: An Overview

Mar 4, 2009 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content

This paper by Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) addresses the history of action research, its features, and how it differs from more traditional science-based research.

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Relational Capital: How it Matters and Why it’s Walking Out the Door

Feb 4, 2009 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) states that today, more than ever before, as companies downsize and change their organizations to meet the new challenges they face, relational capital is exiting, and no one even sees it strolling past them on the way out.

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