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Is Expatriation Good for My Career? The Impact of Expatriate Assignments on Perceived and Actual Career Outcomes

May 18, 2007 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This study by George S. Benson (University of Texas) and Marshall Pattie (Towson University) examines the impact of expatriate assignments on career growth and the external marketability of U.S. employees of a large professional services firm.

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Organizational Communication Networks

May 17, 2007 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Peter Monge (USC) and Drew Margolin (USC) explain how communication and other social networks have been the subject of considerable scholarship since the eighteenth century (Mattelart, 2000), but the past two decades have produced unprecedented growth in network theorizing and research.

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Employment Horizon and the Choice of Performance Measures: Empirical Evidence from Annual Bonus Plans of Loss-Making Entities

May 17, 2007 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Michal Matejka (University of Michigan), Kenneth A. Merchant (USC), and Wim A. Van Der Stede (London School of Economics) examine the extent to which the presence of employment horizon issues affects the relative emphasis on financial versus nonfinancial performance measures in annual bonus plans.

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CEO Compensation: What Board Members Think

May 8, 2007 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and David Finegold (Rutgers University)
Survey data were gathered from 660 board members of the largest publicly traded corporations. They think that CEO compensation is too high in many corporations.

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Are All Nonfinancial Performance Measures Created Equal?

Apr 3, 2007 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Clara Ziaoling Chen (University of Illinois), Melissa Martin, and Kenneth A. Merchant (USC) test the business model of a company in the homebuilding industry using its monthly customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and financial data for over 200 projects for the period 2001-2004.

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Performance Measure Properties and Incentives

Apr 2, 2007 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Michael Gibbs (University of Chicago), Kenneth A. Merchant (USC), Wim A. Van Der Stede (London School of Economics), and Mark E. Vargus (University of Texas) provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of incentive design, focusing on effects of performance measure properties (controllable and uncontrollable risk, distortion, and ma-nipulation).

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Taking Stock: A Review of More Than Twenty Years of Research on Empowerment at Work

Apr 1, 2007 | Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

Gretchen Spreitzer (University of Michigan) argues that to be successful in today’s global business environment, companies need the knowledge, ideas, energy, and creativity of every employee, from front line workers to the top level managers in the executive suite.

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The Importance of Worker Value Added: Detroit’s Real Lesson for American Industry

Mar 5, 2007 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

James O’Toole and Edward E/ Lawler III (CEO) explain that manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

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Having Relevance and Impact: The Benefits of Integrating the Perspectives of Design Science and Organizational Development

Mar 4, 2007 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This introductory paper by Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) argues that building intentional design capabilities is a primary approach to bridging theory and practice.

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Leading Change: Do It With Conversation

Mar 4, 2007 | Agility, Change Management, Sponsor Content

Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) explains that few corporations are immune to the forces of the global economy and the sweeping technological advances that require large-scale change and adaptability for survival.

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The Impact of Social Capital on the Development of Transactive Memories Multilevel Group Knowledge Systems

Jan 7, 2007 | Employee Engagement, Talent Management, Uncategorized

In this paper by Yu Connie Yuan (Cornell University), Peter Monge, and Janet Fulk, a multilevel, multi-theoretical model of transactive memory theory was developed by integrating the emergence model with social capital theories.

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Update on Energy Pulse Trends and Human Capital: What Executives Think and What Drives Performance

Dec 21, 2006 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Building on a set of studies that Theresa M. Welbourne (eePulse) has done over the years predicting initial public offering (IPO) firm performance, this Leadership Pulse study examines the degree to which human capital vs. other types of capital are perceived as important by the executives who run major organizations.

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