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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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Highlights and Features
When Tom Peters coined the term “permanent whitewater” over twenty years ago, was he predicting the tumultuous times we are in now (Peters, 1988)? Have organizations ever had a greater need for authentic leaders who could inspire trust and manage in the midst of ongoing change? This month Organizational Perspectives invites you to explore changing ideas about leadership and changing roles for leaders. Add your thoughts, questions, experiences and comments to the dialogue!
Featured stories remain online: see Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Effectiveness; HR Challenge 2008: Elections and the Workplace, How Do Executives Really Evaluate Distance Training? and E-Collaboration and Global Talent Management.
Peters, T. (1988). Thriving on chaos: Handbook for a management revolution New York: Harper.
Current Topics
Leading and Managing Change in a Dynamic Environment
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. READ ON
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Organizational Perspectives on the Economy
Whether you get your information from old media or new, it is hard to escape the daily onslaught of bad economic news. Large numbers of people are feeling the direct impact—seeing retirements evaporate, seeing home values sink while foreclosure signs sprout in neighbors’ yards, or being told it is time to pack up the desk and escorted to the door. For others the sense of uncertainty is pervasive, and can be paralyzing.
On the professional side, those working in disciplines represented on Organizational Perspectives are in the center of the maelstrom. READ ON
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The Authentic Voices of Women Leaders
Elizabeth Jones, PhD Candidate, Capella University
Shelley Robbins, PhD, Senior Core Faculty, Capella University
Being authentic as a leader is being self-aware, being true to one’s self, and bringing all of one’s self to one’s work. Authenticity in leadership and voicing one’s authentic leadership are espoused as prized elements of leadership excellence. But is it advisable to voice true feelings? Is it safe to be authentic in organizations? What does authenticity really look like? Does authenticity manifest differently in women and men?
Beth Jones and I have been studying the ways in which authenticity and authentic voice affect women. In their 1992 classic, Meeting at the Crossroads, Lynn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan used the concept of voice as a metaphor for describing a person’s perspective, experiences, and stories. READ ON
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