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Getting Rid of the Bottom 10%, Sounds Good But…

Jan 2, 2002 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Ed Lawler explains that successfully removing poor performers requires, first and foremost, the ability to identify who they are. Only if this can be done effectively does it makes sense to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of actually forcing them out of the organization.

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Designing Dynamic Organizations: A Hands-On Guide for Leaders at All Levels

Jan 1, 2002 | Leadership, Organization Design

Based on Jay Galbraith’s world-renowned approach to organization design, and featuring a broad selection of practical tips and ready-to-use tools developed by Diane Downey and Amy Kates, Designing Dynamic Organizations gives business leaders at all levels everything they need to implement positive, progressive change.

Designing Organizations: An Executive Briefing on Strategy, Structure, and Process – New and Revised

Jan 1, 2002 | Organization Design, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

Jay Galbraith’s new and revised edition of Designing Organizations is a leader’s concise guide to the process of creating and managing an organization – no matter how complex – that will be positioned to respond effectively and rapidly to customer demands and have the ability to achieve unique competitive advantage.

Developing Global Executives: The Lessons of International Experience

Jan 1, 2002 | Talent Management

Based on a wide-ranging study of veteran global executives, leadership development experts, Morgan W. McCall and George P. Hollenbeck reveal what it takes for organizations to groom, and individuals to become, successful international executives.

Multinational Work Teams: A New Perspective

Jan 1, 2002 | Agility, Innovation, Organization Design

The purpose of Multinational Work Teams: A New Perspective by P. Christopher Earley and Cristina B. Gibson is to extend and consolidate the evolving literature on multinational teams by developing comprehensive theory that incorporates a dynamic, multilevel view of such items. This book will be of interest to scholars in management, organizational behavior, psychology, executive leadership, and human resource management.

The Organizational Level of Analysis: Consulting to the Implementation of New Organizational Designs

Jan 1, 2002 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Sue Mohrman discusses how during a two-year period, a European electronics firm, Global Solutions, acquired four foreign subsidiaries to bolster its strategy of becoming a global leader selling systems to large global customers.

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Accelerating Organizational Transition

Dec 22, 2001 | Agility, Change Management, Organization Design, Transformation

Why do some organizations make required changes and achieve new levels of performance successfully, while other units in the same organization seemingly stumble and never achieve new levels of performance? This two-part video produced by Susan A. Mohrman & Serge Lashutka, 2001 reveals how viewing organizational change as a learning process that can be accelerated is the difference.

Investing in Workers’ Basic Skills: Lessons from Company-Funded Workplace-Based Programs

Nov 3, 2001 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This monograph by Alec Levenson is written for those interested in promoting company-funded workplace basic skills programs.

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The Employment Outcomes and Advancement of Temporary Workers

Sep 19, 2001 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec Levenson and David Finegold discuss how most research on temporary jobs focuses either on companies’ motivations for using temps or point-in-time comparisons of temp and non-temp jobs. Both types of approach seek to shed insights into the opportunities available to those who work as temps.

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Pay Strategies for the New Economy: Lessons from the Dot-com Era

Sep 17, 2001 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Ed Lawler discusses how the 1990’s saw the rise of the dot-coms. They soared to amazing stock market evaluations that defied the laws of economic gravity.

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Corporate Boards: Keys to Effectiveness

Sep 1, 2001 | Leadership, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

E. Lawler, D. Finegold, G. Benson, and J. Conger discuss how many of the changes that are occurring in the business environment have significant implications for Corporate Boards. Together they are redefining the roles and activities of boards.

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Organizing for High Performance: Employee Involvement, TQM, Reengineering, and Knowledge Management in the Fortune 1000

Jul 30, 2001 | Digital Transformation, Employee Engagement, Organization Design

Edward E. Lawler III , Susan Albers Mohrman , and George Benson discuss how worldwide competition, the rapid expansion of the Internet, and the uncertainty of today’s economic climate are among the myriad forces testing the traditional approaches to management.

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