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In Transit: From Physician to Manager

Feb 1, 1990 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and Judith A. Clair report that physicians are finding themselves in increasing numbers in significant managerial roles. Successful transition from a role as individual professional to a managerial role is neither automatic nor easy.

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The Effectiveness of Skill-Based Pay Systems

Jan 3, 1990 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Gerry Ledford, Jr. explains that skill-based pay (SBP) systems reward employees for the range, depth, and types of skills they possess. Employees are paid for the skills they are capable of using, rather than for the job they are performing at any point in time.

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Performance Appraisal Research at the Center for Effective Organizations

Jan 1, 1990 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

A. Mohrman, Jr. 1990 Performance Appraisal Research at the Center for Effective Organizations

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Group Empowerment: Group Purpose and QWL in a State Psychiatric Hospital for Adolescents

Dec 19, 1989 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This study by Susan G. Cohen examines the relationship between group purpose and group empowerment for three staff teams in a psychiatric hospital–a top management team, a summer planning task force, and a clinical group.

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Making the Ethical Choice: Consulting to a Consumer Advisory Panel

Dec 18, 1989 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

This case by Susan G. Cohen examines the role of a consultant to a corporation’s consumer advisory panel. It discusses the consultant’s response to an ethical dilemma and her choice of intervention strategies. It is written from the consultant’s vantage point, revealing her planning and decision-making processes.

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A Longitude Field Study of Organization Development Using Archival Measures of Employee Absenteeism and Turnover

Dec 17, 1989 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This research by Louis R. Pondy and Larry E. Pate attempted to determine the power of an organization development (OD) program to reduce absenteeism and turnover rates among hourly employees of a medium-sized Midwestern life insurance company in the USA.

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Creating Excellence Out of Crisis: Organizational Transformation at the Chicago Tribune

Dec 16, 1989 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

This article by Robert M. Frame, Warren R. Nielsen, and Larry E. Pate describes an extensive organizational transformation effort-conceptually similar to an organization development program — with the Chicago Tribune, prompted by a walk-out strike in July 1985 involving about 1000 production workers.

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Why Physician Managers Fail

Dec 14, 1989 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

It is no small step to leave behind years of training, apprenticeship, and clinical practice to take on a new profession. Yet that is what increasing numbers of physicians are doing as they enter managerial jobs, as discussed by Morgan W. McCall, Jr., and Judith A. Clair in this article.

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A Conditional Theory of CEO Intervention and Strategic Change

Dec 13, 1989 | Change Management, Leadership, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

According to Arvind Bhambri and Larry Greiner, research reveals that new CEOs frequently intervene to attempt major strategic change but, on average, make a minimal impact on the economic performance of their organizations.

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Employee Involvement and Pay System Design

Dec 1, 1989 | Compensation and Benefits, Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

This article by Edward E. Lawler III discusses a pay strategy that supports employee involvement. It emphasizes pushing information, knowledge, power and rewards to lower organization levels.

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A Profile of Meetings In Corporate America: Results of the 3M Meeting Effectiveness Study

Nov 22, 1989 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

This report by Peter M. Monge, Charles McSween, and JoAnne Wyer presents the findings of the 3M Meeting Effectiveness Study. 903 people from 36 small, medium, and large companies in the public and private sectors completed a detailed survey describing the last meeting they attended.

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Career Disintegration in Mergers and Acquisitions

Nov 1, 1989 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

In this paper by Rikard Larsson and Michael J. Driver, a career perspective is applied to mergers and acquisitions to highlight the individual viewpoint in these prevalent organizational events.

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