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
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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