Leveraging Multirater Feedback to Facilitate Successful Behavioral Change

K. M. Nowack

Insight and awareness has been widely used to create behavioral change using multirater feedback. Yet, insight and awareness alone cannot create successful behavioral change. Successful individual change is the result of a theoretically derived model put into practice. The model described in this article is a feedback loop of enlightenment, encouragement and reinforcement (labeled as enable).

How does a consultant integrate evidence based findings so that change is sustained? Do the stages in the aforementioned model go beyond what the stage is titled and if so, what are the details of each stage?

Globalization, Human Resource Practices and Innovation: Recent Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey

S. Walsworth & A. Verma

A recent study surveyed employees and found that employee knowledge and employer international engagement are associated with positive outcomes; namely:

1. Higher Efficiency;
2. Entrance/Expansion into new and bigger markets;

3. Increase innovation, and
4. Higher levels of employee commitment

With a number of companies striving to expand and have an international presence read on to find out how you might secure your companies stake in the international market by defining your unique niche. The authors offer tips on how to make your HRM work for you and solidify your international presence by customizing innovation.

Relationships among Teamwork Behavior, Trust, Perceived Team Support, and Team Commitment

S. Sheng & Y. Tian

You are attending the weekly staff meeting when you hear those dreaded words....... 'You have been appointed to the new inter-departmental task-force and will be working with a team to address the most recently identified organizational issue.'

Wait! Stop!

Do not roll your eyes and cancel plans for the next six weekends. Take a few minutes to discover how to create team commitment, efficiency, and productive team behaviors. The authors discuss how trust moderates team outcomes and interactions with respect to information sharing and inter-team supportive behaviors.

Knowledge as a Facilitator for Enhancing Innovation Performance through Total Quality Management

R.Y. Hung, B. Y. Lien, S. Fang and G. N. McLean

One way to increase innovation is by tapping into the organizations inherent pool of talent. Total quality management is a tool designed to pull from all-of-the organizations resources. The authors speak about establishing an organization of continuous commitment by providing otherwise unrelated performance with a common goal tied to the organizational objectives.  Read on to witness how the inter-departmental cross-matching creates a synergy that gives birth to the cutting-edge ideas that keep an organization on the forefront of innovation.