Jackson Library

Case:

• Infosys: Building a Talent Engine to Sustain Growth (Stanford Case #HR30)

Reading:

• Michael E. Porter, "What is Strategy?" Harvard Business Review, November/December 1996 
• Peter Capelli and Ann Crocker-Hefter, "Distinctive human resources are firms' core competencies " Organizational Dynamics, 1996, 24(3):7-22 

Recommended Reading:

• Sol E. Solomon, "The Battle for Asia’s Tech Talent", Business Week, February 12, 2008
• Pete Engardio, "India’s Talent Gets Loads of TLC", Business Week, August 9, 2007

Recommended Reading:

• Michael Spence, "Job Market Signaling" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1971 
• Kurt Roon, "Rethinking Talent Acquisition" Business Week, March 5, 2007

Related Web Site:

• Cowen and Company

Recommended Reading:

• "For Cognizant Two’s Company" Business Week, January 17, 2008
• "I Can’t Believe They Took the Whole Team" Business Week, December 18, 2006.
• Ruth Wageman, "Critical Success Factors for Creating Superb Self-Managing Teams " Organizational Dynamics, Summer 1997, pp. 49-61  

Reading:

• Dennis Gioia and Clinton Longenecker, "Delving into the Dark Side: The Politics of Executive Appraisal" Organizational Dynamics, Winter 94, 22, Issue 3: 47-49 

Recommended Reading:

• "Reshaping Microsoft’s HR Agenda" Business Week, September 10, 2007
• "The Struggle to Measure Performance" Business Week, January 9, 2006

Recommended Reading:

• Steven Greenhouse, "Altering of Worker Time Cards Spurs Growing Number of Suits" New York Times, April 4, 2004
• "Lincoln Electric Experiences Season of Worker Discontent '' Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 10, 1995
• "A Model Incentive Plan Gets Caught in a Vise" Business Week, January 22, 1996 

Related Web Sites:

• Learn more about Lincoln Electric... 
• ... and then buy yourself some great Lincoln Electric paraphernalia

Case:

• Employee Recognition at Intuit (Stanford Case #HR-31)

Reading:

• Jeffrey Pfeffer, "Six Dangerous Myths About Pay" Harvard Business Review, May-June 1998, pp. 109-119
• Donald Campbell and others, "Merit pay, performance appraisal, and individual motivation: An analysis and alternative " Human Resources Management, 37(2), 141-146.  
• Jennifer Saranow, "Anybody Want to Take a Nap?" The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2005 

Recommended Reading:

• Matt Richtel, "Fringes vs. Basics in Silicon Valley" New York Times, March 9, 2005

Case:

• Rite Solutions: Mavericks Unleashing the Quiet Genius of Employees (Stanford Case #HR27)

Reading:

• Robert Quinn and Gretchen Spreitzer, "The Road to Empowerment: Seven Questions Every Leader Should Ask" Organizational Dynamics, Autumn, 1997, Vol 26, 37-50 

Recommended Reading:

• Tom Davenport, "Some Predictions about Prediction Markets" Business Week, January 14, 2008
• Rachel King, "Hollywood Games People Play" Business Week, August 7, 2006
• Noam Cohen, "Google’s Lunchtime Betting Game" New York Times, January 7, 2008

Case:

• NUMMI (Stanford Case #HR-11)

Recommended Reading:

• Choe Sang-Hun, "2 Hyundai Companies Deal Far Differently with Labor" New York Times, July 27, 2006
• Jeremy W. Peters, "Hardly a Union Hotbed, Toyota’s Kentucky Plant is a Test for Organizers" New York Times, Sepetmber 4, 2007