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Backlash Against New Business Paradigm?

Backlash Against New Business Paradigm? Are We Practitioners “Walking Our Own Talk”? © Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. There is a recent explosion of management literature, much of which asserts the strong need for change in today’s business organizations. Few people, if any, disagree with this need for change. However, the unrealistic …

Thoughts About Improving Management Training and Development Programs

© Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Management educators, writers, and leaders all assert that leading and managing an organization will only get more complex and challenging in the future. Therefore, management development programs must evolve to become even more accessible and relevant. Look for these future enhancements to management training and development …

Guidelines for Understanding Leadership Literature

Guidelines for Reading Leadership Literature © Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. There is a recent explosion of literature about leadership. The literature offers a great deal of advice from many different perspectives, which can be quite confusing to readers. (After years of reading leadership literature, I’ve begun to notice that, despite the …

Employee Diversity: Gender in the Workplace

Employee Diversity: Gender in the Workplace Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD Organizations are rapidly changing to accommodate expanding markets, increasing diverse workforce, and increasing public consciousness about how businesses should operate. Consequently, employee wellness programs are receiving increasing attention. Also consider Related Library Topics Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Gender in …

Employee Diversity: Sexual Orientation in the Workplace

Organizations are rapidly changing to accommodate expanding markets, increasing diverse workforce, and increasing public consciousness about how businesses should operate. Consequently, employee wellness programs are receiving increasing attention. Also, consider Related Library Topics Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Sexual Orientation in the Workplace In addition to the articles on this current page, …

Employee Diversity: Religion in the Workplace

Employee Diversity: Religion in the Workplace Organizations are rapidly changing to accommodate expanding markets, increasing diverse workforce, and increasing public consciousness about how businesses should operate. Consequently, employee wellness programs are receiving increasing attention. Also consider Related Library Topics Various Perspectives Religion & the Law Religion in the Workplace Religious Protection Learn More in the …

Employee Diversity: Ethnicity and Race

Employee Diversity: Ethnicity and Race (NOTE: Ethnicity is culture-based and race is biologically-based.) Organizations are rapidly changing to accommodate expanding markets, increasing diverse workforce, and increasing public consciousness about how businesses should operate. Consequently, employee wellness programs are receiving increasing attention. Also consider Related Library Topics Various Perspectives Understanding the Difference Between Ethnicity and Race …

Employee Diversity: Age

Employee Diversity: Age Organizations are rapidly changing to accommodate expanding markets, increasing diverse workforce, and increasing public consciousness about how businesses should operate. Consequently, employee wellness programs are receiving increasing attention. Also consider Related Library Topics Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Diversity of Age in the Workplace In addition to the articles …

U.S. Employee Laws

Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD (For information about employee laws in Canada, see the Human Resources Development Canada website.) This section of the library provides miscellaneous information which may be helpful as an overview of various aspects of business law in the United States of America. Businesses designing personnel policies should obtain advice from …

Systems Thinking, Systems Tools, and Chaos Theory

Guidelines for analyzing and improving systems are included in the books Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development and Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development with Nonprofits. Three of the biggest breakthroughs in how we understand and successfully guide changes in ourselves, others, and organizations are systems theory, systems thinking, and systems tools. To …