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.
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.
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.
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Papers are being accepted for the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. It will be held January 5-8, 2010, at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii.
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Too expensive and time-consuming to meet? That shouldn’t keep you from collaborating, according to Anders Gronsted whose company conducts meetings and trainings in Second Life. This short video shows an in-world project involving Schneider Electric and IBM. This interview provides a little background on their work.
If you would like to learn more, sign up for a webinar: “Creating a high performing workplace with games, social media and virtual worlds” June 17, 1 p.m. EDT (fee).
Also, you can drop in for the free weekly Train for Success networking events Anders hosts in world, with business people from around the world. If you see me there (aka Opal Zabeleta) please say hello!
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EDUCAUSE points out that since the economic downturn hit higher ed with full force, retrenching on many campuses has forced IT professionals to think in new ways about what they do. To succeed, IT professionals will need to focus on two key campus relationships: the intersections between IT leaders and campus chief business officers (CBOs), and the relationship between central and distributed IT services.
In the webinar “Strategies for New Circumstances,” Bruce Maas, CIO, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will engage in a lively discussion of future strategies for IT organizations. Join us at 1 pm EDT, June 16. No registration is required.
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Learn more and register free for these upcoming webinars:
If the times don’t work for you, keep in mind that all Elluminate Events are archived for free viewing at your convenience (with registration).
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Dr. Patti Phillips will present a webinar through the Training Magazine Network on July 21, 10-11 am Pacific. Free, with registration to the site. Read the Organizational Perspectives interview and book reviews.
See other webinar topics such as The Seven Essential Roles of the 21st Century Global Leader: Building A Global Mindset Throughout the Enterprise and Beating Budget Cuts: Delivering Hands-On Virtual Learning.
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The Blind Spot of Economic Thought: Transforming Capitalism to A Regenerative Economy
The crisis of our time is not about financial or economic bankruptcies. The real crisis of our time is about an intellectual bankruptcy. Just as the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of one fundamentalist intellectual approach to society and the economy–called socialism or government fundamentalism–we see now the meltdown of another single sided approach to economics and the society: neoliberal capitalism or market fundamentalism.
Led by Otto Scharmer through the Presencing Institute’s Global Classroom, on June 11, 2009 at 10:00-11:30am, (USA - Masachusetts - time zone). To check your local time visit the World Clock at:
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Cost: $15
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Learn more about the Presencing Institute at http://www.presencing.com/
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Business as an Agent of World Benefit is offering a virtual workshop as part of a forum on Creating Containers for Massive Innovation: “Flourishing Destinies: Sustaining Continuity for Positive Change. ”
Through this virtual Appreciative Inquiry (AI) experience, they seek to discover and amplify the best, successful stories of implementing and sustaining positive change after a conference, workshop or other planning process over the long term - or in AI terms - throughout the destiny or implementation phase of the 4-D cycle.
To learn from scholars and practitioners from across disciplines and across the globe, log in and participate in this global discussion. Available, Monday, May 25 — Friday, June 12, 2009.
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Dr. Sara Orem, a member of the Capella School of Business and Technology faculty, is co-author of two books: Appreciative Coaching and a new a new manual and workbook combining Asset-Based Thinking with Appreciative Coaching, The Coach’s Guide To Asset-Based Thinking and Appreciative Coaching.
Dr. Orem is now offering webinars for coaches and managers wanting to use Appreciative Coaching at work and in their coaching practices.
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Both the Human Capital Institute and HR.com offer free, but rich, opportunities to interact directly with experts in an array of talent-related areas. Not surprisingly, HR.com focuses on topics in the human resources arena. The Human Capital Institute offers webinars every day on four tracks: Talent Strategy, Acquisition, Development and Leadership. Here are some selected upcoming events that might be of interest to the Organizational Perspectives community…
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