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Are Monetary Rewards Compatible with Lean Systems?

Sep 13, 2013 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content, Transformation

Gerald E. Ledford, Jr. (CEO) argues here that the lack of attention to rewards in the lean systems literature is a mistake. Decades of academic research confirm that pay exerts powerful effects on employee attitudes and behavior.

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What distinguishes the Millennial generation from Generation X at work?

Aug 11, 2013 | Talent Management

Jennifer J. Deal (Center for Creative Leadership), Alec R. Levenson (CEO), and George S. Benson (University of Texas) answer the questions, “So what drives organizational commitment, helps Gen Xers and Millennials thrive, and improves retention? And what do organizations need to know about what is different for Millennials and Gen Xers, so they can most effectively address the needs of each generation?”

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What works for leading the new multi-generational workforce

Aug 10, 2013 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Alec R. Levenson (CEO), George S. Benson (University of Texas), and Jennifer J. Deal (Center for Creative Leadership) recently completed a global research project that provides the most comprehensive view of the multi-generational workforce to date.

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HR Leadership – Create your Personal Leadership Brand, 8/06/13, Recording/Slides

Aug 6, 2013 | Leadership

This Webinar focuses on the HR leader’s role as a leader. Ian Ziskin led a conversation about what you need to know, with whom you need to interact, when you are most likely to experience development, and how you want to be thought of by others.

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Change Management is Obsolete: Learnings from Research and Practice About What’s Next, 7/30/13, Recording/Slides

Jul 30, 2013 | Change Management

There’s little disagreement that we are living in an increasingly VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. The question is what are we doing about it? In this webinar Chris Worley and Sue Mohrman will characterize the world we live in and explore the obsolescence of the design and change models that we use.

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Building Networks and Partnerships for Sustainability

Jul 25, 2013 | Organization Design, Sustainability

Christopher G. Worley, Philip H. Mirvis, Susan Albers Mohrman, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Editors (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013) The volume explores how collaboration, partnership, and networks are being developed to support the achievement of economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

Employee Involvement: Research Foundations

Jul 9, 2013 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

George S. Benson (University of Texas) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) Employee involvement is an approach to work‐system design that emphasizes high levels of employee decision‐making authority.

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The Promise of Big Data for HR

Jul 8, 2013 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content

Alec R. Levenson (CEO) argues that “Big data” is all the rage these days. Companies have been making large advances in understanding their customers and markets as we gather more and more information on how people shop, work and live their lives.

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Data-Driven Storytelling, 5/13/13

May 23, 2013 | HR Analytics

Data-Driven Storytellers help leaders use HR data to have highly interactive dialogues that lead to decisive action that fuels high-impact and measurable business results.

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What Makes HR Effective?

May 12, 2013 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

What does the HR function of an organization have to do to be a high performer? To determine what makes HR effective, Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and John W. Boudreau (CEO) surveyed senior HR executives and other executives from more than 200 U.S. corporations.

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Making the Business Case for Employee Resource Groups

May 7, 2013 | Employee Resource Groups, Sponsor Content

There has been an evolution and growth of employee resource groups (ERGs) over the last 30 years. In this article, Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) and Lacey Leone McLaughlin (CEO) supplement the work on ERGs through several different data-gathering approaches.

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Corporate Boards and Sustainability, 4/25/13, Audio/Slides

Apr 25, 2013 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sustainability

What are corporate boards doing to assure that their corporations are sustainably effective? This webinar with Ed Lawler (Director, CEO) and Sue Mohrman (Senior Research Scientist, CEO) was a review of the data from our study of the role of corporate boards in sustainability.

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