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Competencies: The Right Foundation for the New Pay?

Apr 3, 1996 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

In this 1996 paper, E. Lawler III discusses how it is a bit premature to declare job-based pay systems obsolete. It is not too early, however, to note that they are well on their way to being replaced by person-based pay.

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Adding Value in Banking: An Innovative Human Resource Strategy

Mar 10, 1996 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

Brent Keltner and David Finegold state that raising levels of human capital investment to improve the quality of service delivery can be done but it requires restructuring recruiting and training practices in light of institutional constraints.

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Competencies and Competency Models: Does One Size Fit All?

Mar 2, 1996 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Competency-based pay plans look much alike from one firm to the next. P. Zingheim, G. Ledford, Jr., and J. Schuster ask why this is happening, and whether it is desirable.

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Human Resource Management in Northern Mexico: Lessons Learned by Maquiladora Managers

Dec 27, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This article by Lisa Hope Pelled and Kenneth D. Hill presents the voices of maquiladoras managers as they described the key HRM challenges they have faced in Northern Mexico and how they have handled those challenges.

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Impact of Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management Programs

Dec 15, 1995 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman, E. Lawler III, and G. Ledford, Jr. discuss study results from continuing research on the impact of employee involvement and total quality management programs.

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Strategy, Core Competencies and HR Involvement as Determinants of HR Effectiveness and Refinery Performance

Nov 17, 1995 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

Patrick M. Wright, Gary C. McMahan, Blaine McCormick, and W. Scott Sherman examined the impact strategy, core competence, and involvement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery managers’ evaluation of the effectiveness of HR and refinery performance among 86 U.S. petro-chemical refineries.

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Motivation for School Reform

Aug 14, 1995 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Uncategorized

S. Mohrman and E. Lawler III state that the school reform movement seeks higher educational standards for all students, moving authority into the local school to develop new approaches and apply resources appropriately to meet the needs of all students, and new approaches to teaching and learning meet the educational needs of modern society.

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Empowered to Lead: Psychological Empowerment and Transformational Leadership

Aug 13, 1995 | Leadership, Sponsor Content

Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Suzanne C. DeJanasz, and Robert E. Quinn examine the relationship between managerial cognitions of empowerment and transformational leadership.

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Creating High Performance Organizations: Practices and Results of Employee Involvement and TQM in Fortune 1000 Companies

Aug 11, 1995 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management

Edward E. Lawler III , Susan Albers Mohrman and Gerry Ledford (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
Creating High Performance Organizations offers the most up-to-date results from a unique longitudinal study that has systematically researched the adoption and impact of employee involvement (EI) and total quality management (TQM) practices on the largest companies in the United States.

Human Resource System Effects at Production Facilities in Mexico

Jun 19, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Lisa Hope Pelled and Kenneth D. Hill examined human resource system effects on performance and turnover at 40 production facilities in Mexico.

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Reward Innovations in Fortune 1000 Companies

Jun 9, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Innovation, Sponsor Content

This paper by G. Ledford, Jr., E. Lawler III, and S. Mohrman summarizes data on reward innovations from a unique sample of large U.S. firms, based on survey data collected in 1987, 1990, and 1993.

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Assessing the Factors Influencing Differences Between Supervisor and Subordinate Performance Ratings: A Multiple Sample Study

Jun 8, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

K. Kacmar, D. Carlson, P. Wright, and G. McMahan discuss 360 degree feedback techniques including, among others, performance ratings by self and supervisor.

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