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Sustainable Leadership: The Iconic Leader Problem

Sep 11, 2011 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) shares that for the last several months CEO succession at Apple has gotten a considerable amount of attention because of the health problems of Steve Jobs.

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Optimizing Incentive Plan Design: A Case Study

Sep 10, 2011 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Alec R. Levenson (CEO), Cindy Zoghi (BLS), Michael Gibbs (University of Chicago), and George S. Benson (University of Texas) study effects of a firm’s attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers.

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Business Partnership with Impact: Creating Strategic Change Through Transformative HR

Sep 8, 2011 | Change Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategic HR

John Boudreau, CEO Research Director and Professor, discussed findings from his forthcoming books, Transformative HR with Ravin Jesuthasan, and Effective HR: A Global Analysis with Ed Lawler.

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A Suggestion for Creating Effective Sustainable Organizations: Get Rid of Job Descriptions

Sep 5, 2011 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) argue that despite their widespread uses, job descriptions frequently are more dysfunctional than helpful, even in traditional bureaucratic organizations.

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The Promise and Peril of HR Data

Aug 23, 2011 | HR Analytics

CEO Research Professor Theresa Welbourne and Kerrian Bard Fournier, Vice President, Head of Human Capital & Analytics, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., discussed how to use the data that surrounds us to orchestrate actions that drive measurable business results.

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Executing Multidimensional Organizations

Jul 22, 2011 | Organization Design

Jay Galbraith discussed three-dimensional matrices of functions, business units and countries as well as four-dimensional structures, such as Procter & Gamble’s Four Pillar Organization is an example.

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Organizing for Sustainability

Jul 19, 2011 | Organization Design, Sustainability

Susan Albers Mohrman & A.B. (Rami) Shani, Editors
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011) A large literature has been generated about sustainability, and many organizations, governments, communities and citizens have focused on it. This first volume of the Emerald series Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness learns from some of the pioneers articulating these challenges and organizing to address them.

Creating a New Employment Deal: Total Rewards and the New Workforce

Jul 9, 2011 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explains that the workforce of organizations is becoming more and more diverse, despite this most organizations offer a standard employment deal.

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Sustainability Initiatives are not the Answer: A New Approach to Management is Needed

Jul 4, 2011 | Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G.Worley (CEO) share that sustainability has become a major issue for most large corporations. Willingly or grudgingly, organizations are accepting responsibility for the impact that they have on the natural environment, the people they employ and the societies they operate in.

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The Future of HR and Effective Organizations

Jun 8, 2011 | Future of HR, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

This article by John Boudreau (CEO) and Ian Ziskin (CEO and Exec Excel) describes the results of an ongoing initiative by CEO to understand the future of HR, and in particular its relationships within effective organizations in dynamic environments.

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The Chief HR Officer: Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders

Apr 15, 2011 | Talent Management

Patrick M. Wright, John W. Boudreau, David A. Pace, Elizabeth “Libby” Sartain, Paul McKinnon, Richard L. Antoine, Editors (Jossey-Bass, 2011) The Chief HR Officer offers the most current thinking on the evolving role of the chief human resource officer (CHRO).

Models & Choices for Shared Functions & Services, 4/11/2011

Apr 11, 2011 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness

Chris Worley and Sue Mohrman talk about Models and Choices for Shared Functions and Services. They provide models and company examples of how to design shared functions, services and Centers of Excellence.

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