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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...
 

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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...
 

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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...
 

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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...
 

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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...
 

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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...
 

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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...
 

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Right From The Start: The Effects Of Early Events On Subsequent Project Team Development And Performance (with Jeff Ericksen ), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2002)
This study contributes to the team development and effectiveness literatures by exploring the activities and...
 

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Uncovering And Exploring The Mobilization And Launch Phase Of High And Low Performing Project Teams (with Jeff Ericksen and Lee Dyer), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2002)
As part of a larger study, this analysis, first, uncovers a previously alluded to, but...
 

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People in the E-Business: New Challenges, New Solutions (with Patrick M. Wright), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2000)

[Excerpt] Human Resource Planning Society’s (HRPS) annual State of the Art/Practice (SOTA/P) study has become...

 

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Crafting A Human Resource Strategy To Foster Organizational Agility: A Case Study (with Richard A. Shafer, Lee Dyer, Janine Kilty, Jeffrey Amos, and G. A. (Jeff) Ericksen), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2000)
A decade ago, the CEO of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (AEHN), anticipating a tumultuous and...
 

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Execution: the Critical “What’s Next?” in Strategic Human Resource Management (with Patrick M. Wright, Lee Dyer, and Michael G. Takla), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1999)
The Human Resource Planning Society’s 1999 State of the Art/Practice (SOTA/P) study was conducted by...
 

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From Human Resource Strategy to Organizational Effectiveness: Lessons from Research on Organizational Agility (with Lee Dyer and Richard A. Shafer), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1998)
As a field of study and practice, strategic human resource management (SHRM) has come a...
 

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Due Process for Non-Union Employees: The Influence of System Characteristics on Fairness Perceptions (with Donna Blancero and Lee Dyer), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1995)
This paper examines fairness perceptions associated with non-union complaint systems. Collaborating with seven CAHRS sponsors,...
 

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Transforming Human Resource Organizations: A Field Study of Future Competency Requirements (with Donna Blancero, John Boroski, and Lee Dyer), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1995)
As human resource organizations transform, staff competency requirements after significantly. The question is: to what?...
 

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Human Resource Strategies and Firm Performance: What Do We Know and Where Do We Need to Go? (with Lee Dyer and Todd Reeves), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1994)
[Excerpt] Strategic human resource management (SHRM) has emerged as a, if not the, major paradigm...
 

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Competency Implications of Changing Human Resource Roles (with John Boroski, Donna Blancero, and Lee Dyer), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1994)
[Excerpt] The present study examines which competencies will be necessary to perform key human resource...
 

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Is There a New HRM? Contemporary Evidence and Future Directions (with Lee Dyer and Thomas A. Kochan), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1994)

[Excerpt] Is there a new human resource management? Yo. That is, yes and no. A...

 

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Human Resources as a Source of Competitive Advantage, CAHRS Working Paper Series (1993)
[Excerpt] For business it's a tough world that's getting tougher. The reasons are familiar enough:...
 

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A Role-Based Taxonomy of Human Resource Organizations (with Christiane M. Labelle), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1992)
[Excerpt] An empirically-derived classification (taxonomy) of human resource "departments", based on a few fundamental roles...
 

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Managing Transformational Change: The Role of Human Resource Professionals (with Thomas A. Kochan and Lee Dyer), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1992)
[Excerpt] Can the United States maintain its traditional position of economic leadership and one of...
 

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International Human Resource Studies: A Framework for Future Research (with Lee Dyer, Thomas A. Kochan, and Rosemary Batt), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1992)
[Excerpt] The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework for research in...
 

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Workplace 2000: A Delphi-Study (with Lee Dyer and Donna Blancero), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1992)

[Excerpt] Prognosticate and one thing is certain: you are likely to be wrong.

Then...

 

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Toward a Strategic Perspective of Human Resource Management (with Lee Dyer and Gerald W. Holder), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1987)
[Excerpt] The current decade has brought yet another transformation in the practice and study of...