Our Voices Mattered: Role Expectations of Black Employees in Helping Employers Create a Supportive Diversity Climate: A Retrospective View

The first two tenured Black American faculty members in a business school accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business reflect on their efforts to help administrators and faculty further embrace diversity as a key component of its growth strategy and marketing plan. The authors assert that institutions of higher learning are in a unique position. Not only are these institutions expected to teach about the benefits of embracing diversity, but to also model behaviors that demonstrate they walk the talk, thereby enhancing the organization’s diversity climate. Change may not be immediate, but over time with deliberate practice, faculty and organizations should see marketable results. Seven suggestions are set forth to help employers create a supportive diversity climate

An analysis of a university organizational climate as perceived by undergraduate- and graduate-level students in terms of an environmental management appraisal

The purpose of the present study is (1) to describe the North Texas State University organizational climate as perceived by undergraduate-and graduate-level students, (2) to compare their perceptions of institutional characteristics with students in other (norm group) universities throughout the nation, (3) to compare selected nominal subgroup data of the undergraduate-graduate student population in regard to their perception of the organizational climate, and (4) to provide sound information that is of use to administrative , faculty, and staff personnel that are interested in efficient and effective utilization of university manpower in order to facilitate the educational experiences that undergraduate-and graduate-level students receive during their tenure at the university

Analyses of Information Systems Students\u27 Applications of Two Holistic Problem Solving Methodologies

The importance of task analysis skills in the fast changing world of Information Systems cannot be over-emphasized. One of the objectives in this research was to analyze how effectively students could learn and apply two problem-solving methodologies in the analyses of two types of tasks to enhance effective decision making. The reference or tested methodology chosen was Systems Thinking, since it has been applied in a variety of settings or domains for many decades already. The second methodology (Goldratt\u27s thinking processes) is relatively new, but has been applied in the analysis of constraint problems, especially in manufacturing, banking, healthcare, etc. After receiving the appropriate trainings, the subjects in the study were assigned two types of tasks or problems in information systems. The first task was verified by a group of experts to be dynamic, while the other was less complex (more static) in nature. The subjects in the study were master\u27s degree students in Information Systems at a major university. The students were divided into four groups; with two professors administering the training to the groups in a format that sought to minimize confounding. Several hypotheses were generated and tested. It is believed that educators and managers could enhance their understanding of the dynamics of the two methodologies in the analyses of tasks of varying degrees of complexity

Preparing for a PhD: A Transactive Memory Approach

Integrating theoretical insights from transactive memory theory, the current manuscript describes ways in which individuals may develop a cognitive and behavioral division of labor to mobilize the tasks, expertise and people necessary to successfully gain admission to doctoral programs. We employ this transactive memory framework to organize insights gained from the authors’ experience with and observations of the Annual Conference of The PhD Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing ethnic diversity in corporate boardrooms by diversifying business classrooms in higher education. Implications, recommendations and directions for future research are offered