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Strategic Human Resources Management

Apr 10, 2005 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explains that a number of forces have converged to support the idea that HR management should be a major strategic focus in most organizations.

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Should They Stay or Should They Go? The Aging Workforce

Apr 1, 2005 | Future of HR, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Theresa M. Welbourne (eePulse) and David Van Kuttnauer (eePulse) explain that there are some rarely discussed, but important facts regarding the American workforce. Specifically, it is growing older. The “graying” of the workforce is due to two significant demographic shifts that are beginning to reshape the composition of the U.S. labor force.

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Corporate Governance and Job Creation: Changes in U.S. Boardrooms After Sarbanes Oxley

Mar 9, 2005 | Change Management, Leadership, Sponsor Content

This chapter by David Finegold (Keck Graduate Institute) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) provides an overview of how the Boards of U.S. public corporations operate today and are changing in light of new legislation, regulations, and guidelines.

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Do Competencies Drive Organizational Performance? Can they? Evidence and Implications for Professional and HR Competencies

Mar 7, 2005 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This article by Alec R. Levenson (CEO) examines the link between competencies and organizational performance.

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Why Business Schools Have Lost Their Way

Feb 6, 2005 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

Warren Bennis (USC) and Jim O’Toole (CEO) discuss how MBA programs face intense criticism for failing to impart useful skills, failing to prepare leaders, failing to instill norms of ethical behavior–and even failing to lead graduates to good corporate jobs.

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OD and Strategic Planning: Linking Process with Content

Feb 5, 2005 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Larry Greiner (USC) argues that for OD to play a more vital role in the future of organizations it must become involved in strategic planning, which affects not only the direction of organizations but the lives and careers of many employees.

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Performance Measure Choice and Target Setting in Loss-Making Firms

Feb 4, 2005 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Kenneth A. Merchant (USC), Wim A. Van Der Stede (USC), and Michal Matejka (University of Michigan) share that prior research has shown the absence of a significant link between financial performance measures and cash incentive payments in loss-making firms, but only conjectures have been offered to explain this finding.

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Performance Measure Choice and Target Setting in Loss-Making Firms

Feb 3, 2005 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Kenneth A. Merchant (USC), Wim A. Van Der Stede (USC), and Michal Matejka (University of Michigan) examine the choice of performance measures and performance target difficulty in CEO annual bonus plans in loss-making firms.

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Harnessing the Power of HR Analytics: Why Building HR’s Analytics Capability Can Help It Add Bottom-Line Value

Feb 2, 2005 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content

In this article by Alec R. Levenson (CEO), the usefulness of ROI, cost-benefit, and impact analysis are compared.

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Training Without Jobs: Access to and Outcomes of Training for Temporary Workers

Feb 1, 2005 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec R. Levenson (CEO), David Finegold (Keck Graduate Institute), and Mark Van Buren (Learning & Development Roundtable) ask the question, “Does temporary work provide a way for individuals to improve their skill levels?”

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Designing the Customer-Centric Organization: A Guide to Strategy, Structure, and Process

Jan 1, 2005 | Organization Design, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

Designing the Customer-Centric Organization (Jay R. Galbraith, (Jossey-Bass, 2005)) offers today’s business leaders a comprehensive customer-centric organizational model that clearly shows how to put in place an infrastructure that is organized around the demands of the customer.

Creating the Good Life :Applying Aristotle’s Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness

Jan 1, 2005 | Uncategorized

Professionals and business people in midlife are increasingly asking themselves “what’s next?” in their careers and personal lives. Creating the Good Life (James O’Toole (Rodale Press, 2005)) draws on the wisdom of the ages to help contemporary men and women plan for satisfying, useful, moral, and meaningful second halves of their lives.

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