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The Lincoln Electric Company, 1996
Authors: Seeger, John; Sharplin, A
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 1997
This case examines the implications of public ownership for the firm's famous incentive system.
The Reign of Zero Tolerance
Author: Gerson, Ben
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Actions that damage a company and its employees should be stamped out, everyone would agree. But should the people responsible be stamped out, too?
On Virtue and Peace: Creating a Workplace Where People Can Flourish
Authors: Beck-Dudley, Caryn L.; Hanks, Steven H.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute; The William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 2003
This article considers what businesses can do to promote peace - specifically, what business practices build skills aimed at conflict resolution.
Vodafone Italy: Designing Solutions for Effective Human Resource Management and Career Development
Authors: Bagdadli, S.; Bizzi, L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: SDA Bocconi
Publication Year: 2009
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The objective of this case is to stimulate reflection on organisational and human resource management problems occurring in companies facing rapid change.
American Express
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2002
In tackling the challenge of generating long-term sustainable growth, American Express Small Business Services saw the opportunity and necessity of making a broad-based, long-term commitment to community economic development...
Healthy Organizations and the Link to Peaceful Societies: Strategies for Implementing Organizational Change
Authors: Jackson, Jeannette; Coolican, Maria
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute; The William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 2002
This article is about how society can be influenced by organizations that create and live by "rules of the game" that "require and intentionally facilitate respectful, civil and peaceful behaviors of their members".
Creating the Most Frightening Company on Earth: An Interview with Andy Law of St. Luke's
Authors: Coutu, Diane L.; Law, Andy
Product Type: Cases; Interviews
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2000
Though only five years old, employee-owned St. Luke's Communications has become one of the most talked about advertising agencies in the United Kingdom, increasing its profits eightfold.
Down on the Tomato Farm
Author: Friedland, Julian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Leeds School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Should migrant workers have labor rights?
Every Employee an Owner. Really.
Authors: Rosen, Corey; Case, John; Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Study after study proves that broad-based ownership, when done right, leads to higher productivity, lower workforce turnover, better recruits, and bigger profits. "Done right" is the key.
Causes of Failure in Network Organizations
Authors: Miles, Raymond E.; Snow, Charles C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 1992
This case discusses the managerial mistakes that have plagued and continue to plague earlier functional, divisional, and matrix forms of organization, actions that are most likely to constrain the network structure and potential.
Puja's Interview
Author: Muncherji, Nina
Product Type: Interviews
Source: Nirma University
Publication Year: 2006
The role-play may be used with students, executives or trainers to provide insights into the following: (1) general interviewing skills, for example questioning, listening, observation of body language; (2) exploring attitudes and perceptions during the interview process; (3) dealing with emotions and feelings of resentment; (4) the need for sensitivity in certain situations; (5) how to establish rapport; (6) managing impressions; and (7) role-play as pedagogy for trainers.
Risk and Lack of Diversification under Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism
Authors: Markowitz, Harry M.; Blasi, Joseph; Kruse, Douglas
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper addresses whether the risk in shared capitalism makes it unwise for most workers or whether the risk can be managed to limit much of the loss of utility from holding the extra risk.
TALFI-Sudbury Canada
Authors: McCann, Peter; Erskine, James A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
An assistant manager of a branch has been asked by his superior to hide documents relating to a lawsuit outside of the office until the trial is over.
Do Women Lack Ambition?
Author: Fels, Anna
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review OnPoint
Publication Year: 2004
This article looks at the differing definitions of ambition held by men and women, and ways in which gender differences in the interpretation of ‘ambition' affects womens' expectations, performance and self- evaluation as a professional...
Intuit's New CEO: Steve Bennett
Authors: Sahlman, William; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
Describes the transition to a new CEO at Intuit, a successful software and financial services firm in California.
The Ten Commandments of Legal Risk Management
Author: Metzger, Michael B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Horizons/Indiana University
Publication Year: 2008
This case is designed to help students learn how to cultivate effective legal risk management in the corporation or business.
Gender-Based Barriers to Senior Management Positions: Understanding the Scarcity of Female CEO's
Author: Oakley, Judith G.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics. Vol. 27, Issue 4.
Publication Year: 2000
This article examines many of the conventional explanations for this phenomenon, including inadequate career opportunities, gender difference in linguistic styles and socialization, and gender based stereotypes, as well as alternative explanations.
Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work
Author: Meyerson, Debra E.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Year: 2001
Tempered radicals want to become valued and successful members of their organizations without selling out on who they are and what they believe in.
HR Problems at Jet Airways: Coping with Turbulent Times in the Indian Aviation Industry
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Tallur, V.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
After showing the door to more than 1,000 employees in a bid to streamline its operations, Jet was faced with immense criticism and opposition by various organisations and political parties.
When All Else Fails
Author: Mathews, Anne Wilde
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wall Street Journal
Publication Year: 2009
Last year, AmeriGas Propane Inc. gave its employees an ultimatum: get their medical checkups, or lose their health insurance.
Response: Why Business Alone Won't Redevelop the Inner City: A Friendly Critique of Michael Porter's Approach to Urban Revitalization
Authors: Harrison, Bennett; Glasmeier, Amy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Economic Development Quarterly, Volume 11, No. 1, pp. 28-38
Publication Year: 1997
Community development activists recognize that some of the poorest neighborhoods in our biggest cities are among the most well situated in terms of access to the region of which they are a part...
Workplace Violence and Security: Are There Lessons for Peacemaking?
Authors: Zollers, Frances E.; Callahan, Elletta Sangrey
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute; The William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 2003
This article focuses on the issue of workplace violence, about which there has been increased public awareness in recent years.
A Zero Wage Increase Again
Author: MacMillan, Karen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The owner of a large hardware, furniture and building centre faced a dilemma regarding how to manage the upcoming wage review process. After two consecutive years of frozen wages, employees were impatient for financial progress, but there was no spare money in the budget.
Using Ownership Incentives in China
Author: Carleton, Tamara
Product Type: Cases
Source: Innovation Leadership Board LLC
Publication Year: 2011
Roy Weber met Cheng Wang, a business consultant and Chinese entrepreneur, at Cheng’s hotel bar in Silicon Valley. Although Roy was slightly familiar with Chinese business practices, he welcomed more advice from a Chinese national. Could Roy transplant Silicon Valley’s model of employee ownership to China, and what would this process entail for a technology startup?
Cedarwood School
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
The Cedarwood School is currently working to educate employees, build an ownership culture, and eventually phase out the founder.
From Colleagues to Owners
Author: Bibby, Andrew
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Cases
Source: The Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Based on ten case studies, the report explains what motivated a highly diverse mix of businesses to consider employee ownership as a succession or start up route.
Women Executives on Work/Life Balance: Flexibility, Networks, Outside Interests
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
The oft-used term "work/life balance" can mean different things to different people -- and different things to the same person at various points in her career.
Today's Solution and Tomorrow's Problem
Author: Shi, Yuwek
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
Provides an overview of the different types of risks that a BPO client is faced with, including the damaging impact to client companies in areas such as customer services, overall operations costs, information security, business continuity, and other short-term market performance metrics.
SnugAdapt: Organizational Change Initiatives
Authors: Woodilla, J; Trefry, M
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2004
This disguised case describes actions taken at SnugAdapt, a mid-sized manufacturing firm, to increase quality and to address problems with worker morale.
Matthew A. Hunter
Authors: Davis, John A.; Malhotra, Deepak
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Matthew Hunter, CEO of a second-generation family business, must decide whether to keep his brother on at the company, and at what expense to the company's success.
Creating Value in Inner City Supermarkets the Community Pride Way
Authors: Stegman, Michael A. M.; Lobenhofer, Jennifer S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Center for Community Capitalism, in the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2001
Employing a business model based on superior, customer-targeted service, community involvement and workforce development and retention that are uniquely targeted to his environment and customer base, Johnny Johnson has become the largest minority grocer in the nation...
Monitor Co.: Personal Leadership on Diversity
Authors: Gentile, Mary C.; Grant, Sarah B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1995
In 1983, brothers Mark and Joe Fuller, and several other colleagues, founded Monitor Company, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based consulting firm. From the outset, they wanted their firm to be different from any other in the industry…
On the Clock: Are Retail Sales People Getting a Raw Deal?
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
Building on success in controlling inventory and other retail operations, new software programs are being used to manage another critical asset for stores -- sales people.
Foster & Gallagher
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2004
Not every ESOP has a happy ending, and one of the unhappiest was at Foster & Gallagher (F&G).
The Virtue Ethic of No-Layoff Policies
Author: Friedland, Julian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Leeds School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Many of Fortune Magazine's 100 best companies have no-layoff policies despite little hard evidence that such policies increase profits.
Negotiation and Conflict Management Workshop
Author: Kolb, Deborah
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Simmons College, Simmons School of Management
Publication Year: 2006
A major objective of the course is to recognize the multiple opportunities there are to negotiate at work and to see the connection between taking advantage of these opportunities and your career success.
Managing Change Through Networks and Values
Authors: Johnson-Cramer, Michael E.; Parise, Salvatore; Cross, Robert L.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
Internal resistance can often slow or derail corporate change initiatives. This case discusses ways to successfully manage change through networks and improved relationships.
Web-Conference: Low-Wage Workers in the Coming Economy
Authors: Blake-Beard, Stacy; Ernst Kossek, Ellen; Popovich, Mark; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
On November 20th, 2009, Aspen CBE hosted a web-conference on "Low-Wage Workers in the Coming Economy."
Laurel Upholstery
Authors: Mark, Ken; Sider, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
A series of departures by senior managers and complaints of discrimination due to ethnicity are brought before the newly hired current senior manager, forcing him to consider his long term career path at this firm.
Downsizing Isn't What It's Cracked Up to Be
Author: Hornstein, Henry
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2009
The decision to implement wholesale staff cuts can exemplify the law of unintended consequences. Or, mass layoffs, for the most part, don’t really work. In fact, this author states that downsizing has only a 50-50 chance of reducing costs. And while the alternatives to downsizing he describes may not be new, there is documented evidence that they maintain employee engagement and the firm’s competitive standing.
An Interview with Charles Handy
Author: Kurtzman, Joel
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Interviews
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 1995
Charles Handy is Europe's best known and most influential management thinker. In an interview with Joel Kurtzman, editor of Strategy & Business, Mr. Handy elaborates on his concept of 'membership community' for the corporate model of the future...
A Framework for Pursuing Diversity in the Workplace
Authors: Brookshire, Michael; DeLong, Thomas J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Assesses the costs and benefits of pursuing diversity and pinpoints the primary barriers to creating diverse workplaces.
Reinventing the Firm
Author: Davies, William
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Demos
Publication Year: 2009
Presenting a wide range of quantitative data alongside three new case studies of employee-owned firms, this pamphlet offers a new vision of economic autonomy where democratic companies drive a happier and more sustainable economy.
The Effects of the Profit Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership Plans: The Case of Taiwan's High-Tech Firms
Author: Han, Tzu-Shian
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: National Chengchi University
Publication Year: 2002
Though there are many anecdotes on the economic effects of Taiwan-style profit sharing and ESOPs, there is always a lack of rigorous systematic studies examining their effects. The aim of this paper is to fill up this research gap.
Building Better Bodies
Author: Freudenheim, Milt
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
With fewer employees to rely on, small businesses are particularly vulnerable when workers take sick days or function poorly on the job.
How to Kill Creativity
Author: Amabile, Teresa M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1998
In today's knowledge economy, creativity is more important than ever. But many companies unwittingly employ managerial practices that kill it. It doesn't have to be that way.
Causes and Consequences of Managerial Failure in Rapidly Changing Organizations
Authors: Longenecker, Clinton O.; Neubert, Mitchell J.; Fink, Laurence S.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons, Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2007
As organizational change becomes increasingly common within firms, managers must learn how to effectively lead team members through the shifting landscape. Based on focus-group data from over 1,000 managers, this study highlights the 15 primary causes of managerial failure, ways to help improve their performance and, accordingly, the performance of their organizations.
Managing a Public Image: Rob Thomas
Authors: Ely, Robin J.; Vargas, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
Rob Thomas describes some of the challenges he has faced as a white, middle-aged man who is managing director of a mid-size consulting firm where he is committed to increasing staff gender and racial diversity. Unwilling to risk the disapproval of any constituency, Thomas was initially paralyzed by his desire to appear as a fair and infallible leader...
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
Authors: Bowles, Hannah Riley; McGinn, Kathleen L.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The traditional division of labor between the sexes—women managing the private realm and men the public—continues to have an indirect influence on job negotiation outcomes through links between private realm and public realm negotiations.
Building Organizational Integrity
Authors: Kayes, D. Christopher; Stirling, David; Nielsen, Tjai M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons, Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Ethical lapses by employees can put organizations at substantial risk, and successful efforts to limit this risk must extend beyond compliance to build a culture of organizational integrity. This case examines the importance of organizational integrity as a tool for risk management.
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