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Building Human Capital Advantage in Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): The Effect on Long-Term Firm Survival and Performance

Feb 1, 2017 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Using survey data collected from the firms’ leadership teams in the beginning of the year following their IPO, Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) and Kyle Gibson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) test the effects of their approaches to human capital on long-term (10-year) firm survival and performance.

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Organization Design Capabilities: What Organizations Need to be Agile in Today’s Increasingly Turbulent World

Jan 10, 2017 | Organization Design

During this webinar, Sue Mohrman and Chris Worley provide an overview of organization design, describe its importance, and make the business case for an internal design capability.

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How to Create a Culture of Innovation

Dec 14, 2016 | Innovation

In this webinar, Dr. Soren Kaplan, one of the world’s leading experts in disruptive innovation and innovation culture, will provide practical insights into the levers that influence innovation culture, including leadership behavior, innovation metrics, formal and informal rewards, talent development, collaboration technology, and organizational structures and processes.

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Measuring and Maximizing the Impact of Talent Development

Dec 1, 2016 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec Levenson addresses the issue that talent development is critical for organizational success. Certainly, if you don’t have the right talent then your business strategy will fail. But what does having the right talent really mean? How do we know when we have it? And if it’s something different than what we’ve always thought it to be, how do we go about developing it?

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The Best Strategy to Achieve True Innovation: The latest post from John Boudreau

Nov 7, 2016 | Innovation, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

In your organization, does innovation mean finding new ways to exploit what you already do well, or exploring arenas where you’re unfamiliar and will make mistakes? Or both?

The Case for Employee Resource Groups: A Review and Social Identity Theory-Based Research Agenda

Nov 3, 2016 | Employee Resource Groups, Sponsor Content

Despite their prevalence in the business world, there has been a scarce amount of theorizing and research focused on ERGs. To help facilitate the development of this work, the authors (Theresa M. Welbourne, Skylar Rolf, and Steven Schlachter) introduce a theoretical framework using social identity theory, as well as propositions that can serve to spur additional research on a critical topic for today’s businesses.

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Using Workforce Analytics to Improve Strategy Execution

Nov 1, 2016 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

In this article Alec Levenson (CEO) introduces an approach to conducting workforce analytics that is designed to improve strategy execution and organizational effectiveness through the application of systems diagnostics.

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The Rise and Fall of Talent Management: Time for Reinvention

Oct 28, 2016 | Talent Management

Drawing upon research conducted with the Corporate Research Forum, Jay Conger will share the results of a global survey on the current state of talent management. This webinar explores the forces that have been eroding the efficacy of talent management innovations over the last several decades and proposes next steps to begin reinvigorating the field.

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Workforce Engagement: Why it Matters, What it is, and What Drives it

Oct 21, 2016 | Employee Engagement

In this webinar with Ben Schneider dove into employee engagement. Ben showed how company-level employee engagement—workforce engagement—gets reflected in future financial and customer satisfaction outcomes, discuss what drives engagement, and how a culture of engagement can get created in companies to produce important strategic consequences.

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Why High Performance Work Design Trumps Employee Engagement

Oct 15, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Organization Design, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

In this article Alec Levenson (CEO) takes an in-depth look at high performance, how it’s related to and different from engagement, and what leaders have to do to develop and sustain high performance.

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Presenting the ERG Impact Model

Oct 6, 2016 | Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Resource Groups

In this webinar Theresa Welbourne reviews data from the most recent ERG research and survey work. Using results from 50 different companies we examine findings that help us explore how ERGs are impacting their businesses, members and company employees.

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Alec Levenson talks with Talent10x on creating a high-performance culture

Oct 5, 2016 | Performance Management, Talent Management

In the latest episode of Talent10x, Managing Editor Frank Kalman talks with Alec Levenson, a senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, on the value of high-performance work design and why CEOs need to pay more attention to the value of team, not individual, performance.

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