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Beyond Tenure: Building Managerial Competencies through Developmental Assignments
(2009-11-01)Key Findings: • The developmental quality of job assignments is critical for building managerial competencies. What matters most isn’t how long junior managers have been in an assignment, but the nature of ... -
Customers Suffer From Employee Churn: High Turnover Makes It Harder to Provide Top Service
(2009-11-01)Key Findings: • As rates of voluntary turnover climb within key business units, customers are more likely to report bad customer service. • When new workers arrive, established workers have to take time away ... -
Taking Attitude into Account for the Gender Wage Gap: Compensating employees equally when gender role attitudes differ
(2010-01-01)Key Findings: • In the U.S, men still earn more than women, and this effect is even more pronounced when considering gender role orientation—or the beliefs people have about the proper roles for men and women ... -
Harness the Power of Frontline Supervisors to Turn HR Policies into Performance Gains
(2010-01-01)Key Findings: • Frontline supervisors play a critical role in implementing HR policies by developing employees and managing performance. • Coaching counts—one-on-one feedback from frontline supervisors increases ... -
Paving the Path to Performance: Inclusive Leadership Reduces Turnover in Diverse Work Groups
(2010-02-01)Key Findings: • Inclusive leaders—characterized by the high-quality relationships they form with their employees—can significantly reduce the high turnover costs seen in diverse work groups. • While it’s ... -
Founding Matters: Initial Choices Predict Future Start-Up Success
(2010-03-01)KEY FINDINGS * The career experiences of start-up founders, and the initial organizational structure they create, matter for a new venture’s future success. * Firms with little organizational structure and inexperienced ... -
Identify Critical Factors to Turn Workforce Satisfaction into Bottom-Line Results
(2010-04-01)KEY FINDINGS · While practitioners and researchers assume that higher employee satisfaction equals higher sales and profits, analysis shows that there is no direct link between the two. · Between the beginning point of ... -
Believable or Biased? Overestimating the Impact of HR Practices on Firm Performance
(2010-04-01)KEY FINDINGS · HR and line managers intrinsically believe that high-performing companies have more progressive HR practices and effective HR functions. Likewise, they assume less successful companies have less effective ... -
Work-Family Conflict Not Just a Women's Issue: Helping All Employees Find Work-Life Balance
(2010-04-01)KEY FINDINGS * If employees feel their family life interferes with their work, they tend to feel guilty. They're actually less likely to feel guilt when they feel work interferes with their family life, possibly ... -
Employee Compensation: Know the true costs of employment and optimize them to benefit employers, employees
(2010-06-01)KEY FINDINGS · While most employees—and possibly some employers—think of employee compensation primarily in terms of “wages” or “salary,” many employees’ total compensation packages add up to a significantly larger figure. ... -
A China-based High-Performance HR System: A Model for Success
(2010-08-01)KEY FINDINGS · An HR system that emphasizes basic control practices and also includes commitment practices yields better business results for Chinese firms than a Western-style high-performance system. · Control HR can be ... -
Understanding the New Reality of Layoffs and Helping Employees Find Solutions to Cope
(2010-08-01)KEY FINDINGS · In general, job tenure in the United States has shortened significantly over recent decades, particularly for relatively older male workers. · Stock prices, which used to react negatively to job loss ... -
Getting to Know You: Self-awareness Is Key for High-Performing, Adaptive Teams
(2010-09-01)KEY FINDINGS · Role identification behaviors, or information exchanges among team members regarding individuals’ roles within a team, are crucial to the development of a team’s self awareness. · If team members do not ... -
Should Personality Testing Be Part of the Hiring Process?
(2010-11-01)KEY FINDINGS · Job candidates who fail a personality test the first time often change their responses dramatically on the second test—even though adult personality is known to be generally stable and unlikely to change in ... -
Rules of Attraction: Job Seekers Use Negative News to Filter Initial Search
(2011-05-01)KEY FINDINGS · In contrast to popular belief that any publicity is good publicity, the researchers found that exposure to negative information about a company had both immediate and longer lasting effects on important ... -
Perception Is Reality: How Employees Perceive What Motivates HR Practices Affects their Engagement, Behavior and Performance
(2011-06-01)KEY FINDINGS: Espoused or intended HR practices have differential effects on employee engagement and citizenship behaviors depending on the underlying management motives employees attribute to those practices. To achieve ... -
Birds of a Feather: How New Employees' Similarity to Coworkers Affects Organizational Behavior and Productivity
(2011-07-01)Key Findings: All similarity is not created equal. The types of similarities that new employees share with their work groups affect the efforts they make to form relationships with their coworkers and bosses. In general, ... -
Strategically Deploy HR Practices to Increase Worker Commitment and Reduce Turnover
(2011-08-01)Key Findings • Employees’ collective affective commitment, or their tendency as a group to feel loyal to and supportive of their employer, decreases their rate of turnover. • HR practices that motivate and empower workers ... -
An Employment Systems Approach to Turnover: Human Resources Practices, Quits, Dismissals, and Performance
(2012-02-01)Key Findings • Organizations using high-involvement work practices have lower rates of quits, dismissals, and total turnover, which in turn leads to higher rates of customer satisfaction. • Long-term investments in ... -
Do Nice Guys -- And Gals -- Really Finish Last? The Joint Effects of Sex and Agreeableness on Income
(2012-02-01)Key Findings • The pay gap between agreeable and disagreeable males is significantly larger than the gap between agreeable and disagreeable females. That is, there is a“benefit” of being (moderately) disagreeable as a male, ...
