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Built to Change Organizations and Responsible Progress – Twin Pillars of Sustainable Success
Christopher G. Worley (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) propose an integration called “responsible progress” and suggest that is represents an important new stream of organization development theory.
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Data Coaching, 1/27/2010
In this webinar, Theresa Welbourne spoke with Jo Macbeth and Dan Hardaker, who work in the Employee Involvement and Experience group at Telefonica O2 UK, who told their story about developing data coaching skills and the effect it is having on their own development and on the organization.
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Where Counting Counts: Data Document a Dramatic Turnaround in Employee Relations among Accounting Professionals
This paper by Michael J. Fenlon (PwC) and Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) describes PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) situation starting in the early 2000’s, when a serious problem with turnover was costing the firm “approximately $40 million annually.”
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Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management: An Assessment of Human Resource Functions
Like CEO’s previous research, this project measures whether the HR function is changing and on gauging its effectiveness. Edward E. Lawler III and John W. Boudreau pay particular attention to whether HR is changing to become an effective strategic partner. They also analyze how organizations can more effectively manage their human capital.
Millennials and the World of Work: An Economist’s Perspective
This article by Alec R. Levenson (CEO) uses an economic approach to address whether and how the Millennial generation is significantly different from its predecessors.
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Agility and Organization Design: A Diagnostic Framework
This article by Christopher G. Worley (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) describes one comprehensive agility framework called “built to change” and the diagnostic process developed to assess an organization’s agility.
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Fast HR
Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) explains that Fast HR is a growing body of work that spells out ways HR can change to meet the needs of today’s fast-growth and high change organizations.
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Are Executives Paid Too Much?
Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) shares that for several decades there as has been an on again off again debate about whether executives in U.S. corporations are paid too much. Recently, the issue has come front and center as a result of the high bonus pay outs to executives in some major financial institutions.
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Valour Pulse and Energy Pulse
Theresa M. Welbourne’s (CEO) Valour Pulse and Energy Pulse questions are based on over 20 years of research on what drives firm performance.
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Recasting Leadership Development
This article by Morgan W. McCall, Jr.(USC) begins with seven reasonably sure bets about the role of experience in leadership development, ponders the reasons that what is known is so rarely applied, suggests some things that can be done to put experience at the center of development, and concludes with recommendations for practice and for research.
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Why are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
In this chapter Alec R. Levenson (CEO), Michael Gibbs, and Cindy Zoghi study job design. Do organizations plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go?
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