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Journal of Management and Training for Industries, 2018
Diversity continues to confound scholars with its range of interpretations, debates about its ben... more Diversity continues to confound scholars with its range of interpretations, debates about its benefits, and hypothesized impacts on organizational performance. Management practitioners often encounter difficulty in dealing with diversity initiatives within organizations. A review of the literature reveals equivocal results when studying the elusive relationship of diversity and performance. Using Hofstede's seminal work on culture as a starting point while recognizing the existence of subcultural variations, we challenge a variety of diversity arguments for their reported influence on performance outcomes and find that organizational context matters a great deal. Much of the literature emphasizes high expectations for diversity as a condition and predictor of better organizational performance. The paper points out the complexity and diversity of diversity variables that include gender, race, class, nationality, functional skills, and perspective. The hopeful orientation and high level of expectations of much diversity research are critiqued. The paper offers explanations for the over-generalized and problematic nature of diversity as an explanatory variable and concludes with suggestions for future study.
A contrarian challenge to the status quo, this book vigorously champions healthy skepticism in ma... more A contrarian challenge to the status quo, this book vigorously champions healthy skepticism in management theory and practice. Several common management maxims -- often taken for granted as truisms -- are examined and debunked with evidence-based arguments. The constant repetition of these flawed tropes perpetuates their mythological status and limits personal and organizational performance. Eleven management maxims are rebuked using empirical data, original scholarship, literature reviews, field observations, and thoughtful opinions from numerous experts. Far from a business as usual business book, this has been researched with academic rigor yet written in an approachable style. Unafraid of taking on conventional business wisdom, it contains some controversial yet substantiated positions that will provoke critical thinking and debate. After all, sacred cows and long-believed tenets of management lore do not go away quietly. A clear message from this book is that you don't have...
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This study examines the effects of the principles of macroeconomics course on the college student... more This study examines the effects of the principles of macroeconomics course on the college student vote. This study surveys a small group of college students (n=40) enrolled in a macroeconomics course during the election of 2008. Students in this course were required to examine the economy and rate the economic plans of both McCain and Obama. College students' ratings were compared to economists' ratings in a new test of economic literacy. Findings from this study indicate that one in three college students changed their vote as a result of the course requirements. Other results from this survey are presented in addition to suggestions of future research on assessment that defines economic literacy as the ability to "think like economists."
Journal of Management and Training for Industries, 2018
Diversity continues to confound scholars with its range of interpretations, debates about its ben... more Diversity continues to confound scholars with its range of interpretations, debates about its benefits, and hypothesized impacts on organizational performance. Management practitioners often encounter difficulty in dealing with diversity initiatives within organizations. A review of the literature reveals equivocal results when studying the elusive relationship of diversity and performance. Using Hofstede's seminal work on culture as a starting point while recognizing the existence of subcultural variations, we challenge a variety of diversity arguments for their reported influence on performance outcomes and find that organizational context matters a great deal. Much of the literature emphasizes high expectations for diversity as a condition and predictor of better organizational performance. The paper points out the complexity and diversity of diversity variables that include gender, race, class, nationality, functional skills, and perspective. The hopeful orientation and high level of expectations of much diversity research are critiqued. The paper offers explanations for the over-generalized and problematic nature of diversity as an explanatory variable and concludes with suggestions for future study.
A contrarian challenge to the status quo, this book vigorously champions healthy skepticism in ma... more A contrarian challenge to the status quo, this book vigorously champions healthy skepticism in management theory and practice. Several common management maxims -- often taken for granted as truisms -- are examined and debunked with evidence-based arguments. The constant repetition of these flawed tropes perpetuates their mythological status and limits personal and organizational performance. Eleven management maxims are rebuked using empirical data, original scholarship, literature reviews, field observations, and thoughtful opinions from numerous experts. Far from a business as usual business book, this has been researched with academic rigor yet written in an approachable style. Unafraid of taking on conventional business wisdom, it contains some controversial yet substantiated positions that will provoke critical thinking and debate. After all, sacred cows and long-believed tenets of management lore do not go away quietly. A clear message from this book is that you don't have...
aabri.com
This study examines the effects of the principles of macroeconomics course on the college student... more This study examines the effects of the principles of macroeconomics course on the college student vote. This study surveys a small group of college students (n=40) enrolled in a macroeconomics course during the election of 2008. Students in this course were required to examine the economy and rate the economic plans of both McCain and Obama. College students' ratings were compared to economists' ratings in a new test of economic literacy. Findings from this study indicate that one in three college students changed their vote as a result of the course requirements. Other results from this survey are presented in addition to suggestions of future research on assessment that defines economic literacy as the ability to "think like economists."