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The Contexts for Geographically Dispersed Teams and Networks

Mar 5, 1999 | Digital Transformation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Sue Mohrman discusses how in this era of global integration, electronic connectivity, and network and partner structures, work is with increasing frequency performed and integrated by geographically dispersed, or distributed, teams and networks.

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Rethinking Organization Size

Feb 15, 1999 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Ed Lawler III argues that before we reach the conclusion that large, complex organizations are obsolete dinosaurs and likely to disappear, we need to look much more closely at the advantages and disadvantages of organization size in today’s business environment.

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The Road to Empowerment: Seven Questions Every Leader Should Consider

Feb 15, 1999 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Sponsor Content

Robert Quinn and Gretchen Spreitzer argue that while many contemporary organizations recognize the need for empowered employees, they frequently run into problems attempting to implement empowerment programs.

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Creating Self-Sustaining, High Skill Ecosystems

Feb 4, 1999 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

David Finegold discusses how most managers’ decisions to adopt a low-skill form of work organization, even if it hurt the performance of the British economy as a whole, could be seen as a rational response to the institutional conditions – e.g. short-term financial markets, an adversarial industrial relations system, a low supply of skills in the labour market – in which they operated.

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Factors Affecting the Organizational Commitment of Technical Knowledge Workers: Generation X, Baby Boomers, and Beyond

Feb 3, 1999 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

D. Finegold, S. Mohrman, and G. Spreitzer discuss how gaining the commitment of knowledge workers will be one of the central management challenges in the new millennium.

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Identifying Strategic Leaders

Jan 2, 1999 | Change Management, Leadership, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Kathleen K. Reardon and Alan Rowe state that the key component of successful leadership now and in the next century is a responsiveness to continuous change.

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Designing a Reconfiguration Organization

Jan 1, 1999 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay Galbraith states that every company needs an organization which changes as quickly as its business changes. If not, the company is falling behind.

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Me and Us: Differential Relationships Among Goal Setting Training, Efficacy and Effectiveness at the Individual and Team Level

Dec 22, 1998 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, efficacy-effectiveness relationships were examined for individual nurses and nursing teams who were either trained or untrained in goal-setting.

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Intercultural Analysis of the Meaning of Teamwork: Evidence from Six Multinational Corporations

Dec 19, 1998 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn develops a conceptual framework to explain variance in the meaning of teamwork across national and organizational cultures.

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Identifying Strategic Leaders

Dec 1, 1998 | Agility, Change Management, Leadership, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Kathleen K. Reardon and Alan Rowe argue that the key component of successful leadership now and in the next century is a responsiveness to continuous change. Such responsiveness requires suspending the illusion of control and denial of uncertainty psychologists tell us are characteristic of human thinking.

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Building Better Bureaucracies

Nov 30, 1998 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness

Paul A. Adler states that colloquially speaking, “bureaucracy” means red tape, over-controlling bosses, and apathetic employees. But large-scale organizations need appropriately designed formalized procedures and hierarchical structure to avoid chaos and to assure efficiency, quality, and timeliness.

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Human Resource Management at Two Toyota Transplants

Nov 29, 1998 | Agility, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Paul A. Adler explains that there is broad consensus that the superlative efficiency and quality performance of Japanese auto “transplants” in the US is in large measure due to their combination of the “lean” production systems and distinctive human resource management practices.

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