When Hewlett-Packard merged with Compaq, one of the most challenging elements was integrating their two unique corporate cultures. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2001, an HP executive told ...

With 11,000 employees across 225 locations, Associa is the biggest community management company in the United States. Considering their size and geographic spread, it’s no easy task to build a ...

PLC frames its curriculum in terms of broad competencies that are the keystones to our leadership education because they cut across every profession, academic discipline, and human endeavor where ...

A new research snapshot from McLean & Company, a globally recognized HR research and advisory firm, explores the impact of well-structured competency frameworks on talent management and organizational ...

Managers, aspiring managers, and top-level leaders are all concerned with developing the competencies they need to become more effective leaders. More than 100 years of leadership research has ...

Effective leaders require competency in core skills. Expertise in core competencies associated with leadership roles typically enable a person to lead others, develop ...

What makes an effective leader? This question is a focus of my research as an organizational scientist, executive coach, and leadership development consultant. Looking for answers, I recently ...

Given the globalization of the modern business environment, leaders within organizations need to be adept at managing employees of varying cultural backgrounds and at communicating with clients all ...

Since a crisis event can be a defining moment for an organization, presenting a severe threat to its strategic objectives, reputation and viability, the ability to lead in a crisis must become a core ...

Job descriptions have long been considered a fundamental human resources tool. Above all, they create transparency around tasks, duties and areas of responsibility that employees and managers can ...