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Employee Involvement: Research Foundations

Jul 9, 2013 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

George S. Benson (University of Texas) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) Employee involvement is an approach to work‐system design that emphasizes high levels of employee decision‐making authority.

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The Promise of Big Data for HR

Jul 8, 2013 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content

Alec R. Levenson (CEO) argues that “Big data” is all the rage these days. Companies have been making large advances in understanding their customers and markets as we gather more and more information on how people shop, work and live their lives.

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What Makes HR Effective?

May 12, 2013 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

What does the HR function of an organization have to do to be a high performer? To determine what makes HR effective, Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and John W. Boudreau (CEO) surveyed senior HR executives and other executives from more than 200 U.S. corporations.

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Making the Business Case for Employee Resource Groups

May 7, 2013 | Employee Resource Groups, Sponsor Content

There has been an evolution and growth of employee resource groups (ERGs) over the last 30 years. In this article, Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) and Lacey Leone McLaughlin (CEO) supplement the work on ERGs through several different data-gathering approaches.

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Adoption of Employee Involvement Practices: Organizational Change Issues and Insights

Apr 6, 2013 | Change Management, Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

Employee involvement (EI) as part of a set of high performance work system (HPWS) has successfully transformed a large number of organizations and become standard practice many new organizations today. George S. Benson (University of Texas at Arlington), Michael Kimmel (University of Texas at Arlington), and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) review the recent research on EI and HPWS and suggest ways in which change research and theory can inform our understanding of why EI practices have fallen short of their potential.

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Negative Effects of Extrinsic Rewards on Intrinsic Motivation: More Smoke Than Fire

Feb 5, 2013 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Gerald E. Ledford, Jr. (CEO), Meiyu Fang (National Central University, Taiwan), and Barry Gerhart (University of Wisconsin) demonstrate that motivation research makes a basic distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. In general, researchers define intrinsic motivation as that which arises from performing the task.

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Stubborn Traditionalism in HRM: Causes and Consequences

Jan 4, 2013 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

This article by John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) examines two questions using cross-sectional analysis of our most recent survey of HR leaders. First we find that slow progress matters, because progress on HR functional features is related to important outcomes, including HR’s role in strategy, effectiveness as a function, and organizational performance. Second, we explore one explanation for HR’s stubborn traditionalism, in the organization’s management approach.

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Workforce Planning Across the Great Divide

Jan 3, 2013 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Ian Ziskin (CEO) argue that even today’s most sophisticated SWP systems often focus solely on the workforce, using frameworks and tools that are largely in the domain of human resources management, and often provide the majority of their information about the HR function and its processes and activities.

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Sustainability: What Should Boards Do?

Jan 2, 2013 | Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) explain that today, sustainability is not just a matter of good citizenship; it has become critical to the survival of corporations. Corporations need to operate in a sustainable manner in order to assure that they have strong communities and ecologies in which to operate.

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Effectiveness of Management Approaches

Jan 1, 2013 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Ed Lawler and John Boudreau discuss the effectiveness of five different approaches to management: bureaucratic, low-cost operator, high involvement, global competitor and sustainable.

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The Strategic Role of HR in the U.S. and China

Oct 12, 2012 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explain that it appears that one reason for the differences in the strategic role of HR between the two countries is the extent to which organizations adopt management approaches that are positively associated with the opportunity for HR to engage in strategic activities.

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Executive Pay: Audit Needed?

Sep 11, 2012 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Bruce R. Ellig (Author) and Ed Lawler (CEO) discuss that like many before it, this year has seen a high level of outrage over the executive compensation payouts of some large corporations.

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