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Welcome to Organizational Perspectives, a home for cross-disciplinary dialogue about human capital management.

Improving an organization’s performance can be approached from a business, psychology, or education discipline.

A motivated, team-oriented, and creative workforce is a result of professionals from these three disciplines working together. Human resource professionals bring talent into organizations through hiring and promotion, training and performance improvement professionals develop talent to meet organizational needs, and organizational psychologists look at the effects that social and workplace contexts have on individuals and groups.

 

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Live Blogging at SHRM 2009

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Watch for live blog posts and tweets from Janet Salmons and Laina Molaski during the 2009 SHRM annual conference beginning June 28.

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Organizational Perspectives is hosted by Capella University to enable scholars and practitioners to exchange and discuss ideas in human capital management.

Click here to learn more about the degree programs at Capella University in the disciplines of business, education, or psychology, or call 1.800.CAPELLA, option 2, to speak with an enrollment counselor.

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Community to Promote Real Collaboration by Janet Salmons

In 1993, Howard Rheingold coined the term virtual community when he described a “computerized counterculture” of meaningful relationships formed among people whose only or primary interaction was online. In his book The Virtual Community, he observed, “The fact that we need computer networks to recapture the sense of cooperative spirit that so many people seemed to lose when we gained all this technology is a painful irony” (Rheingold, 2000). Ironic or not, today technology-supported community and collaboration are increasingly used within organizations, and between organizations and their customers. Read on »


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July 1st, 2009    Janet SalmonsSubscribe to comments on this post

Twitter and Blogs for Social Entrepreneurship

If you have an interest in social entrepreneurship around the world (and time to read lots of tweets!) you may be interested in Social Edge’s The Top 100 Tweeps to Follow. If you prefer more than 140 words on the topic, check out the Social Edge site and related email newsletter.



June 30th, 2009    Janet SalmonsSubscribe to comments on this post

Welcome Society for HR Management: SHRM!

The SHRM annual conference, HR LEADERSHIP FOR THE NEW ECONOMY, is taking place in New Orleans this week. Capella University and Organizational Perspectives contributor Laina Molaski is there. In addition to her posts from the event, learn more from the conference blog.



June 29th, 2009    Laina MolaskiSubscribe to comments on this post

Capella at SHRM conference

Snapshot of Capella Avenue live from the SHRM conference.