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Cross-Cultural Quality Improvement: Should the Focus Depend on Cultural Characteristics and Team Orientation?

Jan 15, 2001 | Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, the hypothesis that quality improvement efforts should be congruent with the level of field independence in a given cultural context and corresponding team quality orientations was examined.

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What Stimulates Teams to Engage in Learning Behavior? The Influence of Composition and Context

Jan 13, 2001 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by Cristina B. Gibson and Freek Vermeulen examines team learning behavior; a set of actions that teams engage in to improve their outcomes.

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Contextual Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity

Jan 11, 2001 | Agility, Sponsor Content

The purpose of this study by Cristina B. Gibson and Julian Birkinshaw is to empirically investigate the predictors and consequences of organisational ambidexterity, defined as the capacity to achieve alignment and adaptability at the same time.

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Economically Correct Leadership

Jan 10, 2001 | Leadership, Sponsor Content

James O’Toole, Bruce Pasternack, and Jeffrey W. Bennett Using in-depth interviews and a survey of over 6,000 executives and managers in Asia, Europe, and North America, Booz-Allen & Hamilton is creating a global database of effective (and ineffective) leadership practices.

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Conversing Across Cultural Ideologies: East-West Communication Styles in Work and Non-Work Contexts

Jan 5, 2001 | Diversity and Inclusion, Sponsor Content

In research by Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Fiona Lee, Incheol Choi, Richard Nisbett, Shuming Zhao, and Jasook Koo, results suggest that cross-cultural differences in conversational indirectness are greater in work settings than in non-work settings. Implications for reducing cross-cultural miscommunication in organizations are discussed.

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A Cultural Analysis of the Effectiveness of Transformational Leadership

Jan 4, 2001 | Leadership, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Research by Gretchen Spreitzer, Katherine Xin, and Kimberly Hopkins Perttula examines the cultural boundaries of the effectiveness of transformational leadership.

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The Economic Approach to Personnel Research

Jan 3, 2001 | Organization Design, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

M. Gibbs and A. Levenson explain that the economic approach to personnel and organizations has grown greatly in scope and importance over the last decade or two.

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Designing Change Capable Organizations

Nov 17, 2000 | Agility, Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Edward Lawler explains that organizations are increasingly operating in a business environment that is characterized by rapid change and increasing performance demands. As a result, organizations face the challenge of accomplishing two, often conflicting objectives: performing well and changing in order to adapt to their business environment.

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Beyond the Vision: What Makes HR Effective?

Oct 16, 2000 | Future of HR, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Edward Lawler III and Susan A. Mohrman argue that corporations are undergoing dramatic changes that have significant implications for how their human resources are managed and for how the human resource function is best organized and managed.

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Disciplinary Constraints on the Advancement of Knowledge: The Case of Organizational Incentive Systems

Sep 15, 2000 | Sponsor Content, Uncategorized

Kenneth A. Merchant, Wim A. Van Der Stede, and Liu Zheng argue that research progress in accounting has been significantly hindered by most researchers’ excessively narrow focus on a single research discipline.

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The Era of Human Capital Has Finally Arrived

Aug 14, 2000 | Future of HR, Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Edward Lawler III explains that because of the growth in knowledge and the ways it is used by organizations, the very nature of individual work has changed. Increasingly, work in developed countries is knowledge work in which people manage information, deal in abstract concepts, and are valued for their ability to think, analyze and problem solve.

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Global Organizational Networks: Emergence and Future Prospects

Jun 13, 2000 | Future of HR, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Janet Fulk discusses how the closing years of the 20th century brought a burst of theory, research, analysis and social commentary that established the network as the most important emergent organizational structure and the preeminent metaphor sense-making by academics and practitioners alike.

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