An article discusses the history of executive coaching, necessary skills for an executive coach, and the numerous benefits coaching provides to organizations.
Researchers review the literature on moral leadership and propose a theory for creating sustained moral change in organizations.
Informal field-based learning, as opposed to formal training and development, has potential benefits for organizations under certain circumstances.
Research shows that organizations benefit when CEOs have a different approach than the existing organizational culture.
Researchers find that age diversity in the workplace has distinct advantages for employees and organizations, especially in regard to solving creative problems.
Topic: Job Analysis, Organizational Development, Competency Modeling
Publication: Personnel Psychology
Article: Doing competencies well: Best practices in competency modeling
Authors: Campion, M.A. Fink, A.A. Ruggeberg, B.J. Carr L. Phillips G.M. Odman R.B.
Reviewer: Neil Morelli
Topic: Organizational Change
Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology
Article: Ambivalence toward imposed change: The conflict between dispositional resistance to change and the orientation toward the change agent (NOV 2010)
Authors: Shaul Oreg and Noga Sverdlik
Reviewed By: Bobby Bullock
Topic: Mentoring
Publication: Journal of Vocational Behavior (DEC 2010)
Article: What keeps people in mentoring relationships when bad things happen? A field study from the protégé’s perspective.
Authors: H. G. Burk, and L. T. Eby
Reviewed by: Charleen Maher
Topic: Fairness, Recruiting
Publication: International Journal of Selection and Assessment (DEC 2010)
Article: Science-practice gap in e-recruitment
Authors: A.L. Garcia-Izquierdo, H. Aguinis, and P.J. Ramos-Villagrasa
Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger
Topic: Job Design, Teams, Performance
Publication: Journal of Organizational Behavior
Article: The impact of autonomy and task uncertainty on team performance: A longitudinal field study (FEB 2010)
Author: J. L. Cordery, D. Morrison, B. M. Wright, & T. D. Wall
Reviewed by: Sarah Teague
