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What Coaching Can Do For Your Organization — and What It Can’t

Dec 20, 2004 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec R. Levenson (CEO), Mike McDermott (Capital One), and Suzanne Clarke (Capital One Financial Services) state that interest in executive coaching is clearly on the rise, and many organizations have made coaching an integral part of their leadership development programs.

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How Corporate Boards are Changing

Oct 19, 2004 | Leadership, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and David Finegold (Keck Graduate Institute) state that over the past four years, corporate boards in the U.S. have been under increasing pressure. Stimulated by high-profile scandals, investor dissatisfaction with board performance and questions about the level of executive compensation, regulators have introduced significant reforms in the rules governing boards.

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The Time Has Come for Strategic Talent Segmentation

Oct 18, 2004 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Peter M. Ramstad (Personnel Decisions International) explain that when it comes to their talent resources, organizations often have similar human capital programs across all business units (“build bench strength”, “improve retention,” “base rewards on performance”). Generic human capital allocations lead to non-optimal human capital investments, just like generic financial or marketing allocations.

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Talentship and Human Resource Measurement and Analysis: From ROI to Strategic Organizational Change

Sep 17, 2004 | Change Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

In this article, John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Peter M. Ramstad (Personnel Decisions International) extend earlier work by proposing a framework of four elements integrating HR measures within a system for achieving strategic organizational change.

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Beyond Cost-per-Hire and Time to Fill: Supply-Chain Measurement for Staffing

Sep 16, 2004 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Peter M. Ramstad (Personnel Decisions International) state that identifying and acquiring talent is one of the most important processes in human resource management.

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Talentship and the Evolution of Human Resources Management: From “Professional Practice” to “Strategic Talent Decision Science”

Sep 6, 2004 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Peter M. Ramstad (Personnel Decisions International) explain that the value and importance of human capital, or talent, is increasingly obvious to business leaders, yet they are increasingly frustrated by the current state of human resource (HR) management.

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Building an Ambidextrous Organization

Aug 15, 2004 | Agility, Change Management, Sponsor Content

Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School) and Cristina Gibson (UC Irvine) state that the technological downturn, political turmoil and economic uncertainty of the last five years have reaffirmed to managers the importance of adaptability – the ability to move quickly towards new opportunities, to adjust to volatile markets, and to avoid complacency.

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Measuring the Impact of a Managerial Competency System: Does Identifying and Rewarding Potential Leaders Improve Organizational Performance?

Aug 14, 2004 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Alec R. Levenson (CEO), Wim A. Van Der Stede (USC), and Susan Cohen (CEO) discuss how the use of competency systems to evaluate, reward, and promote managers has become commonplace in large organizations in recent years.

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Searching for Pay Equity: The Role of Pay Compression on Individual-Level Outcomes

Aug 13, 2004 | Compensation and Benefits, Employee Equity, Sponsor Content

Pay compression occurs when employees with more seniority receive pay rates nearly equal to newer employees. Based upon equity theory, Amy B. Henley (University of Texas), George S. Benson (University of Texas), and Gary C. McMahan (University of Texas) hypothesize that pay compression will influence employee perceptions of pay equity.

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Are Independent Directors the Answer?

Aug 12, 2004 | Leadership, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

A recent survey Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and David Finegold (Keck Graduate Institute) conducted with Mercer Delta of directors in Fortune 1000 companies found that board members themselves feel that of all the proposed board reforms, having boards and audit committees made up of independent directors are by far the most likely to have a positive impact on boards.

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Effects of Task Interdependence and Type of Communication on Performance in Virtual Teams

Jul 11, 2004 | Innovation, Performance Management, Remote Work/Virtual Teams, Sponsor Content

This laboratory study by Susan G. Cohen (CEO) and Ramon Rico (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) proposes a model of virtual team performance based on the fit between the characteristics of the task and the type of communication media used by members of the team.

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Developing Complex Collaborations: Basic Principles to Guide Design and Implementation

Jun 10, 2004 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Susan Cohen (CEO), Don Mankin (Co:e-laboration Design Associates), and Stephen P. Fitzgerald (Alliant International University) While a group of laborers building the pyramids of Egypt might seem to bear little resemblance to a team of machine operators working in a plant, they actually have much in common.

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