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Time Flies Like an Arrow: Tracing Antecedents and Consequences of Temporal Elements of Organizational Culture

Jan 7, 2003 | Innovation, Sponsor Content

Cristina B. Gibson, Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn, and Ramon J. Aldag examine how time has recently become a more central focus in management research and practice. Time to market has become a critical issue in many industries, with ever shortening new product development times.

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From Knowledge Accumulation to Accommodation: Cycles of Collective Cognition in Work Groups

Jan 6, 2003 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, a framework for collective cognition in the workplace is developed to provide guidance to groups, their leaders, and researchers interested in understanding and improving cognitive processes.

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Designing and Forming Global Teams

Jan 5, 2003 | Innovation, Organization Design, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

No matter what the reason for the formation of a global team or what form the team takes, leaders and team members must address the complexity of global teamwork by architecting new ways of collaborating. This chapter byJulia C. Gluesing and Cristina B. Gibson is about how managers can create conditions in the pre-start and start-up phases of global teaming that will enhance the chances that a team will succeed.

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Self-Designing a Performance Management System

Jan 4, 2003 | Organization Design, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

A. Mohrman, Jr. and S. Mohrman discuss how the systems and practices that organizations use to manage performance are integrally related to the capacity of the organization to accomplish its business objectives and of its employees to accomplish their purposes.

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Human Resources Management: New Consulting Opportunities

Jan 3, 2003 | Change Management, Future of HR, Sponsor Content

E. Lawler and S. Mohrman explain that the future of HR consulting is inseparable from the future of the HR function in organizations. There is little doubt in our minds that the ways in which the HR function is managed, positioned and operates in corporations today will change dramatically over the next decade and that these changes will affect HR consulting.

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HR As a Strategic Partner: What Does it Take to Make it Happen?

Jan 2, 2003 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

E. Lawler and S. Mohrman share that a number of articles, books and studies have argued that HR needs to become a strategic partner. But is HR becoming a strategic partner?

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Virtual Teams That Work: Creating Conditions for Virtual Team Effectiveness

Jan 1, 2003 | Compensation and Benefits, Organization Design, Performance Management, Remote Work/Virtual Teams

Virtual Teams That Work, by Cristina B. Gibson and Susan G. Cohen, offers a much-needed, comprehensive guidebook for business leaders and managers who want to create the organizational conditions that will help virtual teams thrive.

Treat People Right!: How Organizations and Individuals Can Propel Each Other Into a Virtuous Spiral of Success

Jan 1, 2003 | Employee Equity, Leadership, Performance Management

Let one of the nation’s most renowned management experts show you how to make your organization truly great by putting its people first. In Treat People Right!, Edward Lawler explains how companies can move beyond the usual acknowledgment that human capital is their greatest asset to actually making it so.

Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership

Jan 1, 2003 | Leadership

Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership by Craig L. Pearce and Jay A. Conger brings together the foremost thinkers on the subject and is the first book of its kind to address the conceptual, methodological, and practical issues for shared leadership.

Performance Management: What Works?

Jan 1, 2003 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

E. Lawler and M. McDermott argue that establishing an effective performance management system is a major challenge for most organizations. It has been a key topic in the human resources management literature for decades

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Virtual Teams that Work: A Framework for Virtual Team Effectiveness

Oct 19, 2002 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Remote Work/Virtual Teams, Sponsor Content

Susan G. Cohen and Cristina B. Gibson share how virtual teams can be either dramatic successes or dismal failures (or anywhere in between). Virtual teams amplify both the benefits and the costs of teamwork.

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Best Practices for Virtual Team Effectiveness

Oct 18, 2002 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Remote Work/Virtual Teams, Sponsor Content

Cristina B. Gibson and Susan G. Cohen discuss best practices for virtual-team leaders, members, and facilitators.

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