The source of competitive advantage has shifted in many organizations from reliability to innovation and flexibility. But what does it take for an organization that innovates to then manage effectively? In this follow-up to Built to Change, Ed Lawler argues that it is a combination of the right...

Ed Lawler suggests HR follows the lead set by marketing and finance by dividing its strategic and administrative work into separate functions.

Global Trends in Human Resource Management draws on twenty years of data collected by the Center for Effective Organizations to chart the changing nature of HR practice, and show how it can meet the demands of an evolving global marketplace.

This wide-ranging volume brings together the commissioned papers that are the basis of James O' Toole and Edward E. Lawler' s "The New American Workplace," their follow-up to the groundbreaking 1973 "Work in America" report. Here leading scholars in the fields of business, management, and human...

What HR needs to do -- What HR does -- The strategic role of HR -- HR decision science -- HR organization -- Measuring efficiency and impact -- The results of HR metrics and analytics -- Information technology in HR -- The effectiveness of HR -- Determinants of HR effectiveness -- Determinants...

As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change. Human Resource Excellence delivers the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to today's organizations. Tracing changes in a global sample of firms across the...