Ian Ziskin and John Boudreau discussed The Future of HR: Multiple Disciplines, Multiple Connections, Multiple Levels.
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Large-Group Interventions: An Empirical Field Study of Their Composition, Process, and Outcomes
Large group interventions are an important method of organization change. This paper by Christopher G. Worley (CEO), Susan A. Mohrman (CEO), and Jennifer Nevitt (Microsoft) received the McGregor Award for the outstanding contribution to the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science for 2011.
Strategic Industrial-Organizational Psychology Lies Beyond HR
In this commentary, John W. Boudreau (CEO) suggests that extending ”beyond HR” and within strategy may offer ways for I-O professionals to further develop the vital linkages between their work and organizational success.
How HR Spends Its Time: It is Time for a Change
Over the last 15 years, the Center for Effective Organizations has surveyed HR leaders every three years regarding the HR profession, the role of HR professionals, the nature of the HR function, and the effectiveness of the HR function.
Maximizing the Return on Your Survey and Measurement Work
CEO Senior Research Scientist Alec Levenson spoke about Maximizing the Return on Your Survey and Measurement Work on January 11, 2012.
Talent Management: Challenges of building crossfunctional capability in high performance work systems environments
Alec R. Levenson (CEO) discusses how occupational dissimilarity is a measure of the overlap in education, skills and experience across two disciplines.
Who’s buying the company stock? An investigation into identity and stock purchase plan participation in a newly public firm
Most of the research on employee ownership or employee stock plan participation investigates the effects of such forms of ownership on employee attitudes. In order to supplement that literature, Theresa M. Welbourne’s (CEO) study explores the effect of a set of employee attitudes (work related identity) on the decision to participate in an employee stock purchase plan.
The Role-Based Identity Scale: Towards a Parsimonious Measure of Work-Related Identity
The study of identity has, to date, been primarily in the realm of social psychology, and as a result, little work has been done on work-related identity. Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) introduces a new measure of identity that taps into five work-related roles.
Stepping on to the Stage: Preparing Executives as Faculty for Your Executive Education Initiatives
Jay Conger (CEO) and Rosie Mackenzie (ConocoPhillips) discussed “Stepping onto the Stage: Preparing Executives as Faculty for Your Executive Education Initiatives.”
Transformative HR: How Great Companies Use Evidence-Based Change for Sustainable Advantage
Transformative HR (John W. Boudreau and Ravin Jesuthasan) demonstrates how some of the world’s most admired and prominent organizations are redefining HR leadership by using evidence-based change to inform human capital decisions that optimize efficiency, effectiveness and strategic impact.
Network Designs For Sustainable Effectiveness—What Does it Really Take to Get Beyond the Constraints of Hierarchy and Segmentation?, 9/26/2011
To get a glimpse into the network design of the future, Sue Mohrman and Chris Worley shared a framework and case examples from our research on “Organizing for Sustainability.” Guest Speaker: Sally Breyley Parker, President, Currere, Inc.
Conducting Action Research
Alec R. Levenson (CEO) and Wenhong Zhang (Nanjing University) provide a review of and guide to conducting action research: what it is, the benefits of it, examples, and how to do it.