Steven Kerr states that upon being invited to a symposium on executive integrity and asked to speak on integrity in effective leadership, his initial thought was that the nomination made a good deal of sense.
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A Comparison of Criteria for Test Validation: A Meta-Analytic Investigation
Barry R. Nathan and Ralph A. Alexander conducted meta-analyses of validity coefficients from tests of clerical abilities for five criteria; supervisor ratings, supervisor rankings, work samples, production quantity, and production quality, and the resulting expected true validities were compared.
Service in Manufacturing: Some Strategic and Theoretical Implications
In this paper by David E. Bowen, Caren J. Siehl, and Benjamin Schneider, approaches to enhancing the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing operations are re-conceptualized as ways of restructuring production operations to include attributes of service operations.
Changing Organizations: Strategic Choices
Key strategic choices in the design of change efforts are considered by Edward E. Lawler III. It is concluded that change efforts should be designed to incorporate such feature as informed consent, reinvention, a combination of bottoms up and top down change, organization wide installation and motivation based on a positive view of the change to be installed.
The Quality Circle and its Variations
The academic and practitioner literature on quality circles (QC’s) is reviewed in this article by G. Ledford, Jr., Edward E. Lawler III, and Susan A. Mohrman.
Participative Management in the United States: Three Classics Revisited
Three classic books by Argyria, Likert and McGregor are reviewed by Edward E. Lawler III. Their contribution to introducing participative management to the United States is assessed.
Human Resource Management: Meeting the New Challenges
The challenges which face the human resources function are reviewed by Edward E. Lawler III. It is argued that human resources departments need to improve their information systems, provide expert resources help, set and implement strategy, and manage the organization’s culture.
Compiled Opinion Editorials
A compiled set of opinion editorials by Edward E. Lawler III and Warren Bennis is presented.
Gainsharing: Congruence with High Involvement Organization Design
Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., Gerald E. Ledford, Jr., and Sheree Demming state that gainsharing is thought to be especially congruent with high involvement organization designs, but little prior research exists concerning the effectiveness of gainsharing, the effectiveness of high involvement designs, or the congruence of the two.
Impediments to the Sino-U.S. Joint Venture Process
Mary Ann Von Glinow and Mary B. Teagarden state that joint ventures between the United States and China have increased dramatically since normalization of relationships resulting in China’s Open Door Policy.
Pay for Performance: A Strategic Analysis
Edward E. Lawler III argues that the idea of paying for performance is so widely accepted that almost every organization says that it does it.
Services Marketing and Management: Implications for Organizational Behavior
David E. Bowen and Benjamin Schneider argue that the marketing of services and the management of service organizations have been understudied relative to the marketing of goods and the management of organizations that produce goods.