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Teams and Technology in the New Organization

Aug 8, 1996 | Digital Transformation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

In this article from 1996, Susan G. Cohen, Don Mankin, and Tora K. Bikson discuss how teams and information technology (IT) are two of the most important developments in organizations today.

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The Discipline of Organization Design

Aug 6, 1996 | Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman, A. Mohrman, Jr., and R. Tenkasi discuss how as organizations adapt to rapidly changing and increasingly demanding environments, they find themselves continually transforming themselves.

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Teams and Technology: Tensions in Participatory Design

Aug 5, 1996 | Digital Transformation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Don Mankin, Susan G. Cohen, and Tora K. Bikson address the trend that year after year, organizations increase their investment in new information and communication systems (IT) and use teams to do more and more of their work.

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Early Identification of International Executives

Jul 12, 1996 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This research by Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Morgan W. McCall, Jr., and Joan D. Mahoney extends the traditional approach to the early identification of executives by introducing the notion of ability to learn from experience.

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Towards a Theory of Strategic Change: A Multi-Lens Perspective and Integrative Framework

Jul 4, 1996 | Change Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Nandini Rajagopalan and Gretchen M. Spreitzer provide a comprehensive review of the strategic change literature from three theoretical lenses: the rational, learning, and cognitive lenses.

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Competencies: The Right Foundation for the New Pay?

Apr 3, 1996 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

In this 1996 paper, E. Lawler III discusses how it is a bit premature to declare job-based pay systems obsolete. It is not too early, however, to note that they are well on their way to being replaced by person-based pay.

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Adding Value in Banking: An Innovative Human Resource Strategy

Mar 10, 1996 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

Brent Keltner and David Finegold state that raising levels of human capital investment to improve the quality of service delivery can be done but it requires restructuring recruiting and training practices in light of institutional constraints.

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Competencies and Competency Models: Does One Size Fit All?

Mar 2, 1996 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Competency-based pay plans look much alike from one firm to the next. P. Zingheim, G. Ledford, Jr., and J. Schuster ask why this is happening, and whether it is desirable.

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Human Resource Management in Northern Mexico: Lessons Learned by Maquiladora Managers

Dec 27, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This article by Lisa Hope Pelled and Kenneth D. Hill presents the voices of maquiladoras managers as they described the key HRM challenges they have faced in Northern Mexico and how they have handled those challenges.

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Impact of Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management Programs

Dec 15, 1995 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman, E. Lawler III, and G. Ledford, Jr. discuss study results from continuing research on the impact of employee involvement and total quality management programs.

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Strategy, Core Competencies and HR Involvement as Determinants of HR Effectiveness and Refinery Performance

Nov 17, 1995 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

Patrick M. Wright, Gary C. McMahan, Blaine McCormick, and W. Scott Sherman examined the impact strategy, core competence, and involvement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery managers’ evaluation of the effectiveness of HR and refinery performance among 86 U.S. petro-chemical refineries.

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Motivation for School Reform

Aug 14, 1995 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Uncategorized

S. Mohrman and E. Lawler III state that the school reform movement seeks higher educational standards for all students, moving authority into the local school to develop new approaches and apply resources appropriately to meet the needs of all students, and new approaches to teaching and learning meet the educational needs of modern society.

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