Lee Dyer is professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Human Resource Studies and the Center for Advance Human Resource Studies, ILR School, Cornell University. He holds BBA, MBA, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and teaching interests focus on organizational agility, human resource strategy, and, especially, the intersection between the two. He has consulted and lectured on these and related topics with numerous major corporations, professional services firms, and human resource organizations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia, and Europe. He serves on a number of editorial boards including Human Resource Management, Human Resource Planning, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. He has published an array of journal articles and book chapters and fourteen books and monographs. Professor Dyer was honored as the P.W. Wood Lecturer in Industrial Relations by Queen's University in 1993, elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 1994, and received the Academy of Management’s Herbert G. Heneman Jr. Career Achievement Award in 2003 and the Society of Human Resource Management’s Michael R. Losey Human Resource Research Award in 2004.
Articles
Achieving Marketplace Agility Through Human Resource Scalability (with Jeff Ericksen), Articles & Chapters (2005)
[Excerpt] Increasingly, firms find themselves, either by circumstances or choice, operating in highly turbulent business...
Dynamic Organizations: Achieving Marketplace And Organizational Agility With People (with Lee Dyer and Richard A. Shafer), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2003)
Driven by dynamic competitive conditions, an increasing number of firms are experimenting with new, and...
Working Papers
Complexity-Based Agile Enterprises: Putting Self-Organizing Emergence to Work (with Jeff Ericksen), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2008)
Organizations competing in hypercompetitive marketplaces have two possible paths to potential success. They can attempt...
Dynamic Organizations: Achieving Marketplace Agility Through Workforce Scalability (with Jeff Ericksen ), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2006)
Dynamic organizations (DOs) operate in business environments characterized by frequent and discontinuous change, They compete...
Toward a Strategic Human Resource Management Model of High Reliability Organization Performance (with Jeff Ericksen), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2004)
In this article, we extend strategic human resource management (SHRM) thinking to theory and research...
Dynamic Organizations: Achieving Marketplace And Organizational Agility With People (with Lee Dyer and Richard A. Shafer), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2003)
Driven by dynamic competitive conditions, an increasing number of firms are experimenting with new, and...
Dynamic Organizations: Achieving Marketplace and Organizational Agility with People (with Richard A. Shafer), Articles & Chapters (2003)
Driven by dynamic competitive conditions, an increasing number of firms are experimenting with new, and...
Policy Briefs
ILR Impact Brief - Workforce Alignment and Fluidity May Yield a Competitive Advantage (with Jeff Ericksen), Policy & Issue Briefs (2007)
[Excerpt] The authors postulate that workforce scalability is the key competency necessary for ongoing marketplace...