Academic Publications
Selected academic journal articles, books, and book chapters.
Trevor, J.; Asakawa, K. (2024)
Part B: Designing organizational ecosystems and overcoming barriers to implementation
European Business Review
Kotosaka, K.; Trevor, J. (2023)
Corporate values alignment: ideation, codification, and co-creation
DIAMOND Harvard Business Review
Trevor, J. (2019)
Align: A Leadership Blueprint for Aligning Enterprise Purpose, Strategy and Organisation
Bloomsbury Publishing
Trevor, J. (2018)
Prospects for strategic pay
The Routledge Companion to Reward Management (Chapter)
Trevor, J.; Varcoe, B. (2016)
A simple way to test your company's strategic alignment
Harvard Business Review
Brown, W.; Trevor, J. (2014)
Payment Systems and the Fall and Rise of Individualism
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
Trevor, J.; Mackinlay, D. (2012)
Have we reached a tipping point in reward?
Benefits and Compensation International
Trevor, J. (2010)
Can Pay Be Strategic? A Critical Exploration Of Strategic Pay In Practice
Palgrave Macmillan
Trevor, J.; Asakawa, K. (2024)
Aligning organizational ecosystems to be fit for purpose
European Business Review
Trevor, J. (2020)
Is Anyone Paying Attention to Strategic Alignment In Your Company?
Harvard Business Review
Trevor, J.; Williamson, P. (2019)
How to Design the Ambidextrous Organization
European Business Review
Trevor, J. (2018)
The risky business of rewarding for performance 1
The Routledge Companion to Reward Management (Chapter)
Trevor, J.; Kotosaka, M. (2017)
Strategic human resource management: An agenda for Japanese companies in the 21st century
Harvard Business Review
Trevor, J.; Hill, R. (2012)
Developing transformation leadership capabilities
Developing Leaders
Farndale, E.; Paauwe, J.; Morris, S.; et al (2010)
Human Resource Management
Trevor, J.; Varcoe, B. (2023)
How Aligned Is Your Organization?
Chapter in HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy
Trevor, J. (2022)
Re:Align A Leadership Blueprint for Overcoming Disruption and Improving Performance
Bloomsbury Publishing
Chang, C.; Colfer, B.; Geelan, T.; et al (2019)
William Arthur (Willy) Brown: 22 April 1945–1 August 2019
The Economic and Labour Relations Review
Wright, C.; Wood, A.; Trevor, J.; et al (2019)
Employee Relations
Trevor, J. (2018)
Is Anyone In Your Company Paying Attention to Strategic Alignment?
Harvard Business Review
Stiles, P.; Trevor, J.; Farndale, E. (2015)
Changing routine: reframing performance management within a multinational
Journal of Management Studies
Stahl, G.; Bjorkman, I.; Farndale, E.; et al (2016)
Six principles of effective global talent management
IEEE Engineering Management Review
Trevor, J.; Brown, W. (2014)
The limits on pay as a strategic tool: obstacles to alignment in non-union environments
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Stahl, G.; Bjorkman, I.; Farndale, E.; et al (2012)
Six principles of effective global talent management
MIT Sloan Management Review
Trevor, J. (2011)
Is your pay system working against you? Strategic pay systems can do more harm than good
Employee Benefits
Trevor, J.; Stiles, P. (2010)
High Stakes Broker
People Management
Morris, S.; Wright, P.; Trevor, J.; et al (2009)
Global challenges to replicating HR: the role of people, processes, and systems
Human Resource Management
Stiles, P.; Trevor, J. (2006)
The Human Resource Department: Roles, Coordination And Influence
Chapter in Handbook of research in international human resource management
Trevor, J.; Williamson, P.
How To Design The Ambidextrous Organization
European Business Review
Acknowledgement of Collaborators
Jonathan wishes to offer special thanks to his former doctoral supervisor, and long-term mentor, Dr Philip Stiles, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Professor Scott Snell, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, also deserves gratitude for the many valuable discussions. Jonathan is grateful to Dr Barry Varcoe for the special contribution he made to the development and grounding of the Strategic Alignment concept upon which some of the ideas in Align: A Leadership Blueprint for Aligning Enterprise Purpose, Strategy and Organisation published by Bloomsbury are based. Others collaborators who have generously given of their time include Professor Kazuhiro Asakawa, Keio University, Keio Business School; Professor Jusuke Ikegami, and the late and very much missed, Professor Emeritus Masataka Ota, both of Waseda University, Waseda Business School; Professor Peter Williamson, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Judge Business School and Professor Sandy Pepper, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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