Edward Lawler

  • Distinguished Research Professor of Business
  • Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization
  • Director, USC's Center for Effective Organizations
  • USC Marshall School of Business
Office: (213) 740-9814

Expertise Summary

An expert on management, employee motivation and executive compensation

Expertise

  • labor unions
  • high-performance work organizations
  • pay and human resource management
  • motivation and rewards
  • large-scale organizational change
  • corporate board effectiveness
  • strategic pay - using pay to reinforce behavior that best serves a company's business strategy
  • achieving maximum organizational effectiveness through employee involvement
  • managing the change toward a high-performance organization
  • paying the person, not the job - basing pay on quality of performance and strategic objectives, rather than job categories and industry pay rates
  • human resources management

Additional Information

  • Author/co-author of more than 30 books, including Human Resource Business Process Outsourcing (2004), Treat People Right!: How Organizations and Employees Can Create a Win/Win Relationship to Achieve High Performance at All Levels (2003), Rewarding Excellence: Pay Strategies for the New Economy (2000), Strategies for High Performance Organizations (1998),
    From the Ground Up: Six Principles for Creating the New Logic Corporation (1996), Organizing for the Future (1993), Employer Involvement and Total Quality Management (1992) and The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement Organization (1992)
  • Fellow, Academy of Management, Association for Quality and Participation; National Academy of Human Resources; World Academy of Productivity Science
  • Recipient, Academy of Management’s career research award (1995)
  • One of the nation’s top 10 leaders in management and organizational behavior