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Strategic Human Resource Management

Jul 10, 1992 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

E. Lawler III, S. Cohen, and L. Chang discuss the role that human resource functions play in complex organization. Emphasis is placed on how the human resource function can become more strategically involved in the business and assesses the progress of large companies in moving toward a strategic partnership role for HR.

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Starting Out Right: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Business Alliances

Jul 3, 1992 | Culture, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Katherin K. Reardon and Robert E. Spekman argue that there is no room for isolationism in a world where even the air we breathe is affected by the choices of people thousand of miles away.

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Our Federalist Future: The Leadership Imperative

Jul 1, 1992 | Future of HR, Leadership, Sponsor Content

James O’Toole and Warren Bennis ask “Are large organizations inherently superior because they possess greater resources to protect the interests of their constituencies against the vagaries of powerful external forces, or are small-scale organizations superior because they are more sensitive to their constituents’, needs (and more adaptable to changing conditions)?”

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Survey-Based Prescriptions for Skill-Based Pay

Jun 3, 1992 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

This paper by N. Gupta, G. Ledford, Jr., D. Jenkins, Jr., and H. Doty summarizes key findings from a study, sponsored by the American Compensation Association, of 97 skill-based pay plans.

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Total Quality Management: Practices in the Fortune 1000

Jun 2, 1992 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

E. Lawler III, S Mohrman, and G. Ledford, Jr. report on the results of the Center for Effective Organizations survey of the Fortune 1000 companies. Particular focus is on the kind of total quality management practices which are adopted by these companies.

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The Emerging Prominence of the Lateral Organization

Apr 25, 1992 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman explains that all signs are pointing to the importance of lateral integration in the organization of the future.

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Designing Informal Networks

Apr 11, 1992 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith explains that the continuous search for competitive advantage is leading many companies to examine their organization. Traditional barriers to entry and sources of advantage like scale and patents are easily circumvented today through actions like strategic alliances.

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The Value Adding Corporation

Apr 3, 1992 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith states that the concept of the American Corporation has been evolving for some time. By the early 1980s a consensus had developed around the different types of corporations and their organizations.

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Total Quality-Oriented Human Resource Management

Apr 1, 1992 | Future of HR, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

D. Bowen and E. Lawler III argue that human resources holds the key to sustained quality improvement. Consequently, the HRM department can potentially play a critical role in an organization’s TQM effort.

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The Business Unit of the Future

Apr 1, 1992 | Future of HR, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith states that the business unit is a basic building block of the corporation’s structure. Collections of businesses make up the corporation’s portfolio.

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The “Learning Bureaucracy”: New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.

Mar 1, 1992 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Paul S. Adler discusses how the human aspects of Japanese manufacturing management techniques are currently under intense debate.

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Strategic Reward Systems

Jan 1, 1992 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

This chapter by D. Jenkins and E. Lawler III presents theory and research on the role of pay systems in complex organizations.

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