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Utilization of Organizational Behavior Knowledge: The Improbable Task

Mar 1, 1984 | Change Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

This paper by Warren G. Bennis and Joseph DeBell aims to outline and evaluate the major interventions used to apply behavioral science to improving organizational effectiveness.

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Gainsharing: Some Questions and Fewer Answers

Feb 1, 1984 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

The experience of 33 organizations with gainsharing programs is reviewed and summarized in this paper by R. Bullock and Edward E. Lawler III.

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Quality Circles — A Self-Destruct Approach?

Jan 1, 1984 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III and Susan A. Mohrman review the stages of quality circle development and enumerate threats to their continued existence.

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Creating Useful Research With Organizations: Relationships and Process Issues

Dec 17, 1983 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content

Susan A. Mohrman, Thomas Cummings, and Edward E. Lawler III explain that concern about the usefulness of organizational research exists in both the academic and practitioner communities.

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Managing Organizational Decline: The Case for Transorganizational Systems

Dec 16, 1983 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This paper by Thomas G. Cummings, Larry E. Greiner, and Judith F. Blumenthal discusses transorganizational systems as an innovative yet increasingly frequent response to organizational decline.

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Employee Involvement in Declining Organizations

Dec 15, 1983 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

Susan A. Mohrman and A. Mohrman, Jr. argue that declining organizations are both an impetus for and an impediment to employee involvement approaches to management.

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Quality of Work Life

Dec 14, 1983 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Susan A. Mohrman and Edward E. Lawler III discuss how in the middle 1970s, American industry began to search for new approaches to management suitable for an emerging world economy characterized by rapid technological change, and for a workforce with increased education, expectations, and willingness to challenge the status quo.

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Accounting for the Quality of Work Life

Dec 13, 1983 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Phil Mirvis and Edward E. Lawler III describe the development and issuance of an independent report on the quality of work life in a Corporation.

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Why Our Old Pictures of the World Don’t Work any More or Why It’s Become so Difficult to Believe in Traditional Research

Dec 1, 1983 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content

The methods of the social sciences were largely developed for a mechanistic conception of the world. This paper by Ian I. Mitroff discusses why such methods are no longer appropriate.

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Organizational Outcomes of Creativity

Nov 1, 1983 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Mary Ann Glinow and Steven Kerr state that it is an assumption not an established fact, that “creative individuals and organizations” are more productive in terms
of commonly used financial and productivity criteria, and once an individual has become “creative,” the firm will benefit.

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Three Types of Change in the Automated Office

Oct 1, 1983 | Change Management, Digital Transformation, Sponsor Content

This paper by Allan M. Mohrman, Jr. and Luke Novelli, Jr. uses actual results to show three ways in which new office technologies can change effectiveness.

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The Design of Effective Reward Systems

Aug 1, 1983 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III reviews the effectiveness of a number of different approaches to pay. Considers the role of pay in strategic management and the management of organizational change.

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