Publications

Designed to bring closure to the discussion of the (B) case. View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management

June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling

Describes a strategic human resource management process applied at the business unit and corporate level. The purpose of the process is to provide a means for aligning human resource management policies and practices with strategy and to hold managers accountable for... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Human Resources; Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry

June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Becton Dickinson (B): Global Management

The president of Becton Dickinson (BD) and his top management team struggle with issues of: 1) how to manage the top of the organization, focusing on leadership style, the committee structure, and the role of sector presidents, and 2) how to manage a multinational... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Human Resources; Leadership Style; Management Teams; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry

June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Becton Dickinson (C): Human Resource Function

The new vice president of Human Resources (HR) for Becton Dickinson must develop a strategy to reconceptualize the HR function as mandated by the CEO who has introduced formal strategic planning procedures in the organization. The teaching objective is to understand... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry

June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Supplement

Becton Dickinson (D1): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling, Update

Describes reactions to the strategic human resource management process and allows an evaluation of prospects for the future. View Details

Keywords: Human Resources

February 1991
Teaching Note

People Express Airlines: Rise and Decline, Teaching Note

By: Michael Beer and Gary W. Loveman

Teaching Note for (9-490-012). View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation Industry

1992
Chapter

Critical Path to Corporate Renewal: Developing Human Resources While Focusing on the Business

November–December 1990
Article

Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change

By: M. Beer, R. A. Eisenstat and B. Spector

Keywords: Programs; Change

1990
Book

The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal

By: M. Beer, R. A. Eisenstat and R. Spector

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship

March 1990 (Revised September 1993)
Case

People Express Airlines: Rise and Decline

Describes the innovative approach to organizing and managing employees by People Express and describes the company's eventual demise. This material can be used to inform about leading edge human resource management practices and to raise questions about what went... View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Human Resources; Air Transportation Industry

February 1990
Article

Developing the Competitive Organization: Interventions and Strategies

By: M. Beer

Keywords: Competition; Organizations; Strategy

December 1989
Supplement

People Express Decline: Interview with Don Burr, Video

Presents an interview with Don Burr, CEO, as he reviews his account of how and why People Express failed as a corporation and was ultimately sold to Continental Airlines. View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Failure; Business Exit or Shutdown; Air Transportation Industry

December 1989
Supplement

People Express Philosophy: Interview with Don Burr, Video

Presents an interview with Don Burr as he reviews the philosophy of management and managements approach of People Express. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Management Teams; Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Air Transportation Industry

December 1988
Background Note

Note: An Introduction to Team Building

Keywords: Groups and Teams

Winter 1988
Article

Towards a Redefinition of OD: A Critique of Research Focus and Method

Read Now

June 1988
Supplement

Bethoney Manufacturing: Interview with Plant Manager and Union President, Video

Keywords: Labor and Management Relations

January 1988
Case

Line Technologies Immunocytometry Systems

January 1988 (Revised January 2007)
Background Note

Leading Change

Presents a conceptual framework for understanding the process of leading organizational change. Change leaders must create dissatisfaction with the status quo, develop a vision of the future state, and manage a process that sequences and orchestrates events and changes... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Leading Change