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HR and the Innovative Organization Summit - April 18, 2007, San Francisco, CA

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Each summit has been pre-approved by HRCI for six hours of strategic management credit

How to Apply/Hotels
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Featuring:

Edward E. Lawler, III
Distinguished Professor of Business
Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California

James N. Baron
William S. Beinecke Professor of Management, Professor of Sociology
Yale School of Management

Plus panel

From CEO speeches to advertising slogans "innovate" is the rallying cry of the day. But organizations have to move beyond rhetoric to action and HR has a critical role to play in any company that wants to build a sustainable innovation capability. In this dynamic program we will examine how best-practice organizations create an "innovation machine" through their hiring, organizational design, and reward systems.

Critical for:
- HR leaders at firms that must be more innovative in order to thrive and who want to have a positive role in creating that change

Ed Lawler, co-author of the book The New American Workplace, will delve into the changes in the workplace and the workforce - and what effects these have on the ability of organizations to innovate. The topics he will cover will range from the impact of technology to the effects of offshoring and outsourcing to the growth of contract and part-time work. He will provide practical insights on what all of this means for building a truly innovative organization.

James Baron has done extensive research on high-tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, widely considered to be the "poster children" for innovation. He will examine the human capital and organizational design characteristics of these ventures and how they can be translated into legacy companies. He will discuss aspects of compensation, motivation, and performance metrics.

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How to Apply/Hotels
To ensure the appropriate mix of participants and provide an executive-level forum, your application will be screened by SHRM based on criteria identified on the application form, regardless of the order in which applications are received.

Complete the form and submit to (703) 535-6477.

Summit Location
April 18, 2007
Intercontinental Mark Hopkins
One Nob Hill
999 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
(800) 972-3124

In addition to the summit hotel, you may opt to stay at these recommended hotels.
Please contact the hotels directly to make your reservations.

Fairmont San Francisco
950 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
(800) 257-7544

Grosvenor Suites
899 Pine Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
(800) 999-9189

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Summit Program Fees

SHRM member: $1,195/per summit
Nonmember: $1,450/per summit
Program fee includes instructional materials, speaker book, PDF of Executive Summary, continental breakfast and lunch.




Earn 6 hours to fulfill HRCI's strategic requirements for recertification.


Summit Speakers

Edward E. Lawler, III
Distinguished Professor of Business
Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC)

Edward E. Lawler is Distinguished Professor of Business in the Management and Organization department of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is also Director of the School's Center for Effective Organizations. After receiving his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, Ed Lawler joined the faculty of Yale University as Assistant Professor of Industrial Administration and Psychology. Three years later he was promoted to Associate Professor.

Ed Lawler moved to the University of Michigan in 1972, as Professor of Psychology, and also became a Program Director in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. He held a Fulbright Fellowship at the London Graduate School of Business. In 1978, he became a professor in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. During 1979, he founded and became the Director of the University's Center for Effective Organizations. In 1982, he was named Professor of Research at the University of Southern California. In 1999, he was named Distinguished Professor of Business.

He is the author and co-author of over 300 articles and 38 books. His most recent books include Achieving Strategic Excellence: An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations (Stanford Press, 2006), Built to Change (Jossey-Bass, 2006), The New American Workplace (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006), and America at Work (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006).

James N. Baron
William S. Beinecke Professor of Management, Professor of Sociology
Yale School of Management

Professor Baron's research interests include human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets, and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies. Before coming to SOM in 2006, he taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business from 1982-2006. At Stanford, he taught the MBA core course, Human Resource Management. He was co-director of the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC), a large-scale longitudinal study of the organizational design, human resource management practices, and financial and non-financial performance measures of entrepreneurial firms in Silicon Valley. Papers based on the project appeared in leading disciplinary journals, and an overview of the project in California Management Review won the 2003 Accenture Award for making "the most important contribution to improving the practice of management."

He is the author, with Stanford economist David M. Kreps, of a textbook, Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). Baron is also a regular contributor to leading sociology and organization journals, such as the American Sociological Review and Administrative Science Quarterly. His research has also been published in influential journals in economics and social psychology.

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