Jay A. Conger and Rabindra N. Kanungo explain that although charismatic leadership is often known for its positive consequences, it has a shadowed side that has been poorly explored.
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Who Needs MBA’s in H.R.? USC’s Strategic H.R. Management MBA Concentration
P. Adler and E. Lawler III discuss how article after article on the future of U.S. corporations stresses the importance of HR skills for line managers and “business partner” skills for HR managers. Despite this very few MBA programs offer concentrations in HRM.
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The Role of Top Management in Large Scale Change: The View From Within
Sue Mohrman argues that top management should focus on organizational architecture, on leading the learning process, on providing very clear strategic direction, and on building a new employment relationship.
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Teams and Information Technology: Creating Value Through Knowledge
In this paper, Tora K. Bikson, Susan G. Cohen, and Don Mankin examine how information and information technology can make teams more effective.
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Executive Compensation
This chapter by Kevin J. Murphy summarizes the empirical and theoretical research on executive compensation and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of pay practices (and trends in pay practices) for chief executive officers (CEOs).
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Beyond Competencies: Using the Ability to Learn from Experience for the Early Identification of International Executives
Morgan W. McCall, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, and Joan D. Mahoney discuss the development of an instrument which measures both traditional competencies for international executive success and the ability to learn from experience.
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Explaining How Survivors Respond to Downsizing: The Roles of Trust, Empowerment, Justice and Work Redesign
In this paper, Aneil K. Mishra and Gretchen M. Spreitzer develop a stress-based framework of survivors’ responses to downsizing.
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The Search for Flexibility: Skills and Workplace Innovation in the German Pump Industry
David Finegold and Karin Wagner find that the existence of a highly skilled workforce may deter the adoption of multifunctional work teams, but that countervailing strengths of the German skill-creation system can potentially help firms develop a new, distinctive German production model.
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Running on Empty: Overworked People in Demanding Work Environments
Julia Welch, Rachel Ebert, and Gretchen Spreitzer discuss how in contemporary organizations, overwork is often viewed as a key problem inherent in today’s demanding working environment.
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Learning and Knowledge Management in Team-Based New Product Development Organizations
S. Mohrman, R. Tenkasi, and A. Mohrman, Jr. discuss how configuring organizations into cross-functional new product development teams introduces new knowledge management and learning challenges.
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Tomorrow’s Organization: Crafting Winning Capabilities in a Dynamic World
Based on eighteen years of in-depth research, this powerful new book by Albers Mohrman, Jay R. Galbraith , and Edward E. Lawler III describes the building blocks for creating tomorrow’s dynamic organizations and provides hands-on guidance for implementing change.
Winning ’em Over: A New Model for Managing in the Age of Persuasion
Winning ’em Over by Jay Conger chronicles a revolution. We are witnessing an ancient model of managing built around command and hierarchy give way to a new model built around persuasion and teamwork.