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Global Change As Contextual Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Oct 31, 1994 | Change Management, Innovation, Sponsor Content

R. V. Tenkasi and S. Mohrman argue that the traditional models of international technology transfer may be inadequate to represent the complexities involved in effective global change since they rely on an ‘objectivist’ conception of knowledge, that views knowledge as an objective commodity to be transmitted from source to receiver.

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Reward Systems That Reinforce Organizational Change

Oct 24, 1994 | Change Management, Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

G. Ledford, Jr. and E. Lawler III argue that conventional pay system designs are failing because they are unable to grapple with organizational changes such as globalization, technological change, downsizing, delayering, and new business strategies.

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The Practice of Organization & Human Resource Development in America’s Fastest Growing Firms

Oct 24, 1994 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

The following paper by Allan H. Church, and Gary C. McMahan reports the results of a recent survey project that investigated the contemporary practice of Organization Development among America’s Fastest Growing Firms (as identified by Fortune, October 5th, 1992).

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Total Quality Management Practices and Outcomes in the Largest U.S. Firms

Oct 1, 1994 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

A survey of the 1000 largest companies in U.S. led by S. Mohrman, R. Tenkasi, E. Lawler III, and G. Ledford, Jr. shows that TQM practices fall into two main categories: core practices and production oriented practices.

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Aligning Teacher Compensation with Systemic School Reform: Skill-Based Pay and Group-Based Performance Rewards

Sep 30, 1994 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

A. Mohrman, Jr., S. Mohrman, and A. R. Odden explain that teacher compensation structures have remained relatively constant for the past many decades.

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Systems are Not Solutions: Issues in Creating Information Systems that Account for the Human Organization

Sep 9, 1994 | Employee Engagement, HR Analytics, Innovation, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Uncategorized

Edward E. Lawler III, Philip H. Mirvis
1981 (republished 1994)

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A Predictive Model of Self-Managing Work Team Effectiveness

Aug 28, 1994 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by Susan Cohen, Gerry Ledford, Jr., and Gretchen Spreitzer tests a theoretically-driven model of self-managing work team effectiveness.

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Organizing Knowledge Work Systems

Jul 27, 1994 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This paper by S. Mohrman, A. Mohrman, Jr., and S. Cohen examines the design of organizations for knowledge work. It draws on the general literature underpinning organization theory and design, and more applied work on design for knowledge work.

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Large-Scale Organizational Change As Learning: Creating Team-Based Organizations

Jul 10, 1994 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

Susan Mohrman and Allan Mohrman, Jr. explain that the transition to a team-based organization is a large-scale organizational change. It is both pervasive and deep.

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Team Cognitive Ability as a Predictor of Team Performance

Jun 26, 1994 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This study by Patrick M. Wright, Gary C. McMahan, and Dennis Smart examined the relationship between team cognitive ability (average Scholastic Aptitude Test score) and team performance (a subjective coach’s evaluation and an objective measure using Sagarin’s Power Rankings) among NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball teams during the 1991-92 season.

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The Impact of Individual Differences on the Socialization of Workers to a Technological Intervention

Jun 25, 1994 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This study by K. Michele Kacmar, Patrick M. Wright, and Gary C. McMahan examined the role of ability, motivation, and their interactions in the effectiveness of the use of training as a socialization tool.

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Towards an Understanding of the Factors which Enable and Obstruct Learning in New Product Development: An Action Research Study

May 24, 1994 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Ronald E. Purser, William A. Pasmore, and Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi explain that organizational learning in new product development involves the development of a knowledge base that can inform technical problem solving and decision making.

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