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Automate or Informate? An Investigation of the Effects of Information Technology on Motivation and Performance

Jun 7, 1995 | Digital Transformation, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Research by Gary C. McMahan, Richard W. Woodman, and Patrick M. Wright supports the hypotheses that task discretion moderates the relationship between both information technology and task motivation and the relationship between information technology and task performance.

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Institutional Effects on Skill Creation: A Comparison of Management Development in the U.S. and Germany

May 31, 1995 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

David Finegold and Brent Keltner explain that changes in requirements for competitive success in the global economy have led political economists to devote greater attention to shifts in corporate strategy and differences in education and training, primarily for production workers, across the industrialized countries.

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Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders: A Field Study

May 12, 1995 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this paper, Gretchen Spreitzer and Robert E. Quinn describe a field study of a large scale management development program for a Fortune 100 organization’s population of middle managers designed to stimulate change.

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Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work

May 10, 1995 | Organization Design

Susan Albers Mohrman, Susan G. Cohen and Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
Designing Team-Based Organizations breaks new ground in tackling the organizational design issues related to the implementation of teams, with a specific focus on the new designs required to support the knowledge-work components of organizations.

Paying for the Skills, Knowledge, and Competencies of Knowledge Workers

Apr 6, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

G. Ledford, Jr. defines competency-based pay and relates the definition to the more familiar approach, skill-based pay.

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Designing Nimble Reward Systems

Apr 5, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

G. Ledford, Jr. states that increasingly, pay systems are failing to keep pace with the rapid pace of change in business strategies and organizational structures.

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Performance Management and “Running the Business”

Mar 4, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by A. Mohrman, Jr. and S. Mohrman enumerates the characteristics of the new approaches to performance management that are arising in response to these problems and that tie directly to running the business.

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The New Pay: A Strategic Approach

Mar 3, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Ed Lawler III states that the “New Pay” is not alternative pay. It is not skill-based pay, gainsharing or any other specific new pay practice. Indeed, it is not a set of new practices, rather, it is a way of thinking about role pay systems in complex organizations.

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Measurement, Evaluation and Reward of Profit Center Managers: A Cross Cultural Field Study

Feb 15, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

In this study, Kenneth A. Merchant and Chee W. Chow, Anne Wu, explored differences between U.S. and Taiwanese firms in measuring, evaluating and rewarding profit center managers, a subject which has not been addressed in the research literature.

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The Contextual Determinants Of Increased Adoption Of Participative Practices In Organizations

Feb 1, 1995 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Drawing on multiple frameworks, this study by R. Tenkasi, S. Mohrman, G. Ledford, Jr., and E. Lawler III tested longitudinally on a matched set of 130 companies the contextual determinants of increased adoption of participative practices.

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Strategic Human Resources Management: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Jan 1, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

E. Lawler III states that when training costs and other human resource management costs are added to compensation costs, the human resource management function often is responsible for a large portion of an organizations total expenditures.

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On the Integration of Strategy and Human Resources: An Investigation of the Match between Human Resources and Strategy among NCAA Basketball Teams

Dec 17, 1994 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

Patrick M. Wright, Dennis Smart, and Gary C. McMahan examine the relationships among strategy, human resources, and performance among NCAA basketball teams.

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