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Edward E. Lawler III
Center for Effective Organizations
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
Edward E. Lawler III joined the faculty of Yale University after
receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in
1964. Three years later he was promoted to Associate Professor.
He moved to the University of Michigan in 1972 as Professor of
Psychology and also became Program Director in the Survey Research
Center at the Institute for Social Research. In 1978, he became a
Professor in the Marshall School of Business at the University of
Southern California. That same year, he founded and became Director of
the University’s Center for Effective Organizations. He was named
Professor of Research at the University of Southern California in 1982
and Distinguished Professor of Business in 1999.
Lawler has been honored as a major contributor to theory, research, and
practice in the fields of human resources management, compensation,
organizational development, corporate governance, and organizational
effectiveness. He is the author and co-author of over forty-three books
and more than 350 articles, which have appeared in the Harvard Business
Review, MIT-Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, USA
Today, Strategy and Business, the Financial Times, and more than thirty
other magazines, journals, and newspapers.
His most recent books include Rewarding Excellence (Jossey-Bass, 2000),
Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top (Jossey-Bass,
2001), Organizing for High Performance (Jossey- Bass, 2001), Treat
People Right (Jossey-Bass, 2003), Human Resources Business Process
Outsourcing (Jossey-Bass, 2004), 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), America at Work (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006), and
Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage (Jossey-Bass, 2008).
Business Week has proclaimed Lawler one of the top six gurus in the
field of management, and Human Resource Executive called him one of HR’s
most influential people. Workforce magazine identified him as one of the
twenty-five visionaries who have shaped today’s workplace over the past
century. He has been a consultant to many corporations, including the
majority of the Fortune 100, as well as governments at all levels.
For more information, visit
http://www.edwardlawler.com
and
http://ceo.usc.edu.
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