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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Leaders today are working in one of the most dynamic environments we’ve seen: change is fast, and continual. Applying the theories of how people change along with following some of the best practices of change leadership can enable organizational leaders to not only survive, but also thrive during continual organizational change. Whether your organization is experiencing changes in competition, changing customer needs, new technologies, increased globalization, or industry recession, you can learn to apply some basic principles of change and manage change processes.
Research in the last decade examined a number of major organizational changes, and found that approximately 70% of these organizational change initiatives were not successful and failed to achieve their original objectives (Beer and Nohria, 2000). Change efforts fail for a number of reasons.
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A couple of articles in the free, online version of Learning Executives Magazine published by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) are particularly relevant to Organizational Perspectives readers. In the July 2008 issue, find the article “Tailoring Global Leadership.”
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