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Mental Judo As Practiced by Top Executives: Guidelines for Surviving in Turbulent Times

Oct 1, 1986 | Change Management, Leadership, Sponsor Content

For over the past fifteen years through various consulting and workshop assignments, Ian Mitroff and Susan A. Mohrman have been studying the thinking patterns of top executives.

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The Slack is Gone: How the U.S. Lost Its Competitive Edge in the World Economy

Sep 1, 1986 | Agility, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Ian Mitroff and Susan A. Mohrman state that during the late 1970s, when chronic inflation eroded the dollar’s value in international trade, American goods became artificially attractive to foreign buyers-and American manufacturers were lulled into an artificial sense of security about their ability to compete.

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The Whole System is Broke and is in Desperate Need of Fixing: Notes on the Second Industrial Revolution

Aug 1, 1986 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Uncategorized

Ian Mitroff and Susan A. Mohrman argue that earlier conditions which made for the overwhelming success of the U.S. and Western democracies have abruptly ceased to exist.

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Union Management Cooperation: A Case Study in Ambivalence

Jul 1, 1986 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by Susan A. Mohrman presents the consultant’s perspective on a union/management quality of worklife project.

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The Dynamic Organizational Contexts of Executive Succession: Consideration and Challenges

Jun 1, 1986 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

Craig C. Lundberg says that while long a topic of interest, in recent years executive succession has drawn increasing attention by managers and organizational scholars alike.

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Emerging Models of Consultancy

May 1, 1986 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

In this exploratory paper, Craig C. Lundberg and Michael Finney attempt to explicate what currently appears to be the range and function of emerging consultancy models, that is, to order and describe the major contemporary consultancy models in terms of consultant roles.

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Participation, Satisfaction, and Productivity: A Meta-Analytic Review

Mar 1, 1986 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by Katherine I. Miller and Peter R. Monge reports the results of a meta-analytic review of research investigating the effects of participation in decision making on employee satisfaction and productivity.

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Self-Designing Organizations: Towards Implementing Quality-of-Work-Life Innovations

Mar 1, 1986 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This chapter by Tom Cummings and Susan A. Mohrman develops a strategy for implementing innovations requiring fundamental organizational change.

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Contrasting Participant Reactions to Participation in Performance Appraisals

Feb 1, 1986 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This study by Allan M. Mohrman, Jr. and J. Bruce Prince considers the effects of subordinate participation on both participants in appraisal events, managers as well as subordinates.

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New Manufacturing Technology and Work Design

Jan 1, 1986 | Innovation, Organization Design, Performance Management

Thomas G. Cummings and Melvin Blumberg argue that perhaps most important, new technologies can have a profound impact on work design–how tasks are grouped into jobs and work groups.

After the Founder: An Opportunity to Manage Culture

Dec 1, 1985 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

The purpose of this paper by Caren Siehl is to address the question of “If culture can be managed, when and what aspects of culture can be managed”.

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Measuring Organizational Culture

Nov 1, 1985 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content

The purpose of this paper by Caren Siehl and Joanne Martin is to describe a hybrid approach to the issue of measuring organizational culture.

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