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From Ladder to Lattice: The New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3881BC-ELeadership and People ManagementScaling the corporate ladder has been the enduring gold standard for personal success since organizational hierarchy was invented at the beginning of the industrial age. However, a confluence of market and demographic forces in the past twenty years has compressed hierarchies, shortened the ladder, and reduced the qualified pool of high-potential employees available to climb it. Another set of business and societal influences has reshaped the Ame...Starting at €8.20
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The Nontraditional Is the New Traditional: Six Trends that have Created a New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3882BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy is here and now the time to acknowledge and respond to the notion that corporate structures are morphing from a ladder to a lattice construct? One reason is that six key trends are converging in ways that create an unprecedented workforce challenge for business executives. This convergence is creating sweeping changes in workforce composition, attitudes, and capabilities. This chapter dissects the six trends and illustrates how each is exacer...Starting at €8.20
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Huo's Group: A Professional Manager in a Family Firm in China
Ting Wang; Paul W. Beamish; Zhou Liman; Luo JingjingCase IVEY-9B14C009-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn February 2012, a human resources appointment attracted wide attention from China's domestic lubricating oil industry. The iconic general manager of Shell Tongyi (Beijing) Petroleum Chemical Co., Ltd. officially took the position as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Huo's Group, thus returning to work for his former boss, the founder of the former Tongyi Lubricating Oil. Before the merger between Tongyi and Shell in 2006, the private entrepr...Starting at €8.20
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Aspop's Recruitment Predicament
Xiaokang Zhao; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B17C043-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn early 2013, the founder of Shandong Aspop Clothing Apparel Group Co. Ltd. faced the annual “post-holiday recruitment dilemma.” His challenge was typical of the growth challenges that many labour-intensive original equipment manufacturer clothing enterprises in China encountered. Facing rising domestic labour costs, a change in attitudes among workers, the gradual shift of labour preferences from manufacturing industries to service industries, ...Starting at €8.20
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CHINT Global: Selecting the Next Country Manager - Teaching Note
Lin Lu; Min Sun; Paul W. Beamish; Elie Chrysostome; Jingshu ZhangTeaching Note IVEY-W32604-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyTeaching note for product W32603.Starting at €0.00
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Barrick Gold Corporation - Tanzania
Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B10M020-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThis case examines the giant Canadian mining corporation, Barrick Gold Corporation (Barrick), (called Africa Barrick Gold plc since 2009), and the way it engages in sustainable community developments that surround its mining activities in Tanzania. Following recent organized tensions and heightened criticism from local communities, media, international social lobbyists and local not-for-profit organizations (NFOs), Barrick has attempted to deal w...Starting at €8.20
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Human Resource Management in Multinational Banks in Tanzania
Paul W. Beamish; Aloysius Newenham-KahindiCase IVEY-9B07C040-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe case examines how the best practices of two banks were organized and managed to provide financial services to a small niche of foreign customers in the mining, tourism and construction sectors in Tanzania. The two banks claimed to be similar in many ways. They both were from countries whose economies were run broadly on neo-liberal lines, in that there was little state intervention in either economy, however, differences existed with respect ...Starting at €8.20
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Online Piracy: Jaywalking or Theft
Alex Beamish; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B09C018-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementIn September 2009, Brian Lee purchased a computer game developed by a major company and, like other customers, he was experiencing difficulty running it. The source of the problems was a highly restrictive system of digital rights management (DRM), which, while more or less universally disliked, was causing serious technical problems for a minority of users. Lee began to share his experience on the company's message board and was engaging in a de...Starting at €8.20
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Barrick Gold Corporation - Tanzania - Teaching Note
Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi; Paul W. BeamishTeaching Note IVEY-8B10M20-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyTeaching note for product 9B10M020.Starting at €0.00
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The Journey Toward a Lattice Organization: Implementing the Principles of Mass Career Customization
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3885BC-ELeadership and People ManagementMass career customization (MCC) is a natural evolution from the traditional corporate-ladder path, with its one-size-fits-all approach, and the one-off flexible work arrangement approach of accommodation through point solutions, to a more pragmatic, adaptive lattice model. MCC is a framework that helps enterprises promote multidimensional, customized career experiences. The payback is a more actively engaged and loyal workforce. This chapter exam...Starting at €8.20