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Empowered to Lead: Psychological Empowerment and Transformational Leadership

Aug 13, 1995 | Leadership, Sponsor Content

Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Suzanne C. DeJanasz, and Robert E. Quinn examine the relationship between managerial cognitions of empowerment and transformational leadership.

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Creating High Performance Organizations: Practices and Results of Employee Involvement and TQM in Fortune 1000 Companies

Aug 11, 1995 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management

Edward E. Lawler III , Susan Albers Mohrman and Gerry Ledford (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
Creating High Performance Organizations offers the most up-to-date results from a unique longitudinal study that has systematically researched the adoption and impact of employee involvement (EI) and total quality management (TQM) practices on the largest companies in the United States.

Human Resource System Effects at Production Facilities in Mexico

Jun 19, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Lisa Hope Pelled and Kenneth D. Hill examined human resource system effects on performance and turnover at 40 production facilities in Mexico.

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Reward Innovations in Fortune 1000 Companies

Jun 9, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Innovation, Sponsor Content

This paper by G. Ledford, Jr., E. Lawler III, and S. Mohrman summarizes data on reward innovations from a unique sample of large U.S. firms, based on survey data collected in 1987, 1990, and 1993.

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Assessing the Factors Influencing Differences Between Supervisor and Subordinate Performance Ratings: A Multiple Sample Study

Jun 8, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

K. Kacmar, D. Carlson, P. Wright, and G. McMahan discuss 360 degree feedback techniques including, among others, performance ratings by self and supervisor.

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Automate or Informate? An Investigation of the Effects of Information Technology on Motivation and Performance

Jun 7, 1995 | Digital Transformation, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Research by Gary C. McMahan, Richard W. Woodman, and Patrick M. Wright supports the hypotheses that task discretion moderates the relationship between both information technology and task motivation and the relationship between information technology and task performance.

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Institutional Effects on Skill Creation: A Comparison of Management Development in the U.S. and Germany

May 31, 1995 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

David Finegold and Brent Keltner explain that changes in requirements for competitive success in the global economy have led political economists to devote greater attention to shifts in corporate strategy and differences in education and training, primarily for production workers, across the industrialized countries.

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Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders: A Field Study

May 12, 1995 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this paper, Gretchen Spreitzer and Robert E. Quinn describe a field study of a large scale management development program for a Fortune 100 organization’s population of middle managers designed to stimulate change.

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Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work

May 10, 1995 | Organization Design

Susan Albers Mohrman, Susan G. Cohen and Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
Designing Team-Based Organizations breaks new ground in tackling the organizational design issues related to the implementation of teams, with a specific focus on the new designs required to support the knowledge-work components of organizations.

Paying for the Skills, Knowledge, and Competencies of Knowledge Workers

Apr 6, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

G. Ledford, Jr. defines competency-based pay and relates the definition to the more familiar approach, skill-based pay.

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Designing Nimble Reward Systems

Apr 5, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

G. Ledford, Jr. states that increasingly, pay systems are failing to keep pace with the rapid pace of change in business strategies and organizational structures.

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Performance Management and “Running the Business”

Mar 4, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by A. Mohrman, Jr. and S. Mohrman enumerates the characteristics of the new approaches to performance management that are arising in response to these problems and that tie directly to running the business.

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