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Designing Information Technology to Support Distributed Cognition

Nov 1, 1993 | Digital Transformation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Richard J. Boland Jr., Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi, and Dov Te’Eni discuss how cognition in organizations is a distributed phenomenon, in which individual members of an organization reflect upon their experience, make plans, or take action.

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Measurement, Evaluation and Reward of Profit Center Managers: A Cross-Cultural Field Study

Oct 29, 1993 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This study by Kenneth A. Merchant, Chee W. Chow, and Anne Wu was designed to explore differences between the U.S. and Taiwanese firms in measuring, evaluating and rewarding profit center managers, a subject which has not been addressed in the research literature.

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The Practice of Organization Development: A Survey of the 500 Largest Service Firms

Oct 28, 1993 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

In this study by Gary C. McMahan, Richard W. Woodman, and Ana Moreno, the 500 largest service firms in the United States were surveyed with regard to their internal Organization Development (OD) practice.

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P=F(MxA): Cognitive Ability as a Moderator of the Relationship between Personality and Job Preference

Oct 26, 1993 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This study by Patrick M. Wright, K. Michele Kacmar, Gary C. McMahan, and Kevin Deleeuw tested the validity of the use of personality tests with aptitude tests as predictors of performance for 203 warehousers using the Hollenbeck and Whitener (1988) interactive model.

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Job Design: A Contemporary Review and Future Prospects

Oct 20, 1993 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

The purpose of this chapter by Ricky W. Griffin and Gary C. McMahan is to summarize the historical development of job design theory and research, describe current theory and research regarding job design, and suggest new directions that job design theory and research might more fruitfully pursue in the future.

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Groups as Self-Regulating Systems: A Control Theory Perspective of Norm Formation and Enforcement

Oct 15, 1993 | Sponsor Content, Uncategorized

This paper by Gary C. McMahan and Patrick Wright attempts to describe the integrated nature of norm formation and norm enforcement.

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Looking Backward and Forward at Action Research

Oct 3, 1993 | Sponsor Content, Uncategorized

This article by G. Ledford, Jr. and S. Mohrman responds to commentaries on a set of action research studies that appeared in a special issue of Human Relations.

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Designing Work Teams

Oct 1, 1993 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Susan Mohrman explains that designing organizations in which the work team is the focal performing unit began in earnest in production settings, where “new design plants” (Lawler, 1978) or “high commitment work systems” (Walton, 1985) emerged in the 1970’s and are now widely used (Lawler, Mohrman and Ledford, 1993).

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Designing Effective Self-Managing Work Teams

Jul 15, 1993 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

This paper by Susan G. Cohen proposes a model of self-managing work team (SMWT) effectiveness derived from several theories of organizational behavior and empirical work.

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From Job-Based to Competency-Based Organizations

Jul 1, 1993 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This article by Edward Lawler III challenges the basic assumption that jobs should be the fundamental building block of organizations. It stresses that with the new forms of organizations and the new demands organizations should be built around competencies not jobs.

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A Perspective on Empowerment

Jun 1, 1993 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Susan Mohrman explains that the term “empowerment” has come to express in many managers’ minds the essence of new approaches to management that are believed to be capable of delivering higher levels of performance by tapping into the energies and enthusiasm of employees.

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Effective Reward Systems: Strategy, Diagnosis, Design and Change

May 1, 1993 | Change Management, Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Edward Lawler III provides a basic framework for the description of an organization’s reward system.

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