My Resume

MICHAEL D. WHITTY

165 Baldwin Birmingham MI 48009
whittymd@udmercy.edu 248 703 9009

An Interdisciplinary Professor of Values-Based Education

Interdisciplinary scholar/writer with publications covering global issues affecting business and society with special attention to global business trends; published in Global Times (Denmark), New Renaissance (Germany) and the Chinmaya Management Review (India) as well as the Multinational Business Review; taught in Mexico, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Canada in a 35 year career of innovative teaching; I have taught courses in three University of Detroit Mercy colleges (Business, Liberals Arts and Architecture) in six different departments in my extensive career of innovative and experiential teaching. I am a futurist both in my integration of several disciplines but also a pioneer in values-based education. I have co-edited Work and Spirit, a path-breaking reader. I have conducted trainings for the UAW/General Motors Human Resources Center, UAW/Chrysler and many business, community and professional groups. I lecture widely, conduct seminars and workshops while continuing to publish regularly in scholarly journals, including The Journal of Organizational Change Management. I am an authority on current business issues frequently featured in local and national TV, radio and newspapers and a longtime radio personality dealing with economic and political issues.

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Visiting Professor, Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Seattle University 2005-06

Professor, Management and Labor Relations, University of Detroit Mercy, College of Business and Administration, 1967 - present (Assistant Professor, 1967 - 1974, Associate 1974-1993)

Classes taught: undergraduate and graduate level classes in Labor Relations; Labor Issues/Labor Relations; Business and Society; Collective Bargaining; Sex, Race and Age Discrimination in Business; Principles of Management; Introduction to Business, International Business, Organizational Behavior; Human Resources Management


Director, University of Detroit Mercy, Institute on Building Sustainable Community, 2003 to 2005

Associate Director, University of Detroit, Institute for Urban and Community Affairs, 1988 - 1990

Previous visiting positions have included: Professor, Santa Clara University School of Business, 1995-6; Acting Director Labor and Urban Affairs, University of Minnesota (1974); Central Michigan University (part-time 1978-1982); San Francisco State University (1985-86); National University; University of San Francisco (1986-7; summers 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)


EDUCATION

PhD, 1969, Syracuse University Maxwell School Dissertation: "The Evolution of the United Auto Workers Union"
M.A., 1964, University of Michigan
A.B., 1960, University of Detroit



UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: SERVICE, HONORS

Faculty Excellence Award, College of Business and Administration, 1991
Awarded sabbatical, 1992
Awarded research grant summers, 1991 - 99
Chair, College Rank and Tenure Committee, 1990-91
Chair, College Planning Committee, 1989-90
President’s University Priorities Committee 2001
Faculty Chair, University Fundraising 2002
Faculty Advisor, Society for the Advancement of Management
Wrote successful grant application for $10,000 grant to the Institute for Building Sustainable Communities from Johnson Controls Inc - December 2004

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

edited with Jerry Biberman, Work and Spirit, University of Scranton Press, 2001(second edition 2006)

Articles:

"Inner and Outer Peace", Reader, edited by Professor Patricia Rife, published electronically 2004.

“Transforming Business and Education: The Challenge to Organizations and Educators.”
With D. Fitzgibbons and D. Steingard, Organization Development Journal, Fall, 2003.

“Reinventing Media: Challenging the Popular Culture,” with D Butts, New Renaissance Journal, London, 2003.

“Alternative to Economic Globalization", with D. Butts, New Renaissance Journal, Germany, 2002.

“Reinventing Education and Saving Our Children,” with D Butts, Journal of Future Studies, 2001.

“Homophobia and Social Class," with D. Ross, Understanding and Managing Diversity: Reading, Cases and Exercises, (Harvey and Allard), Prentice Hall, 2001.

“Technology Trends.” Software Management Quarterly, 2001.

“Technospirit.” Business Research Yearbook, 2001
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“Work and Spirit.” Business Research Yearbook, 2000.

Special Editor, Journal of Organizational Change Management special issue, Spring, l999

and Biberman, Jerry and Robbins, Lee “Lessons from Oz: Balance in Organization”, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Spring 1999.

“Economic and Industrial Democracy”, The Global Times, February/March, l998

and Biberman, Jerry, “The Post-Modern Spiritual Future of Work”, the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Spring, l997

“Co-Management for Workplace Democracy”, The Journal of Organizational Change Management, Fall, 1996

"Barriers to Thai Auto Parts Makers in the U.S. Marketplace," Multinational Business Review, Spring, 1996.

and Dan Butts, "Global Business Leadership," Global Times, February-March 1996.

"Facing Competitiveness in Global Auto: The Challenge to Thai Auto Parts Makers,Competitiveness Review, Spring, 1995.

"Americans With Disability Act," Labor Law Journal, May 1994.

and Bonnie Fremgen, "Corporate AIDS Policy in One Midwestern City, AIDS Public Policy Journal, Winter, 1992.

and Bonnie Fremgen, "How to Avoid a Costly AIDS Crisis in the Organization," Labor Law Journal, November 1992.

and Dan Butts, Why Men Work, Men's Studies Review, Fall 1992.

and Dan Butts, "Intuitive Management," Journal of Quality and Participation, Sept.1991
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"Global Management Issues," International Management Journal, London, Fall 1991.

"Nat Ganley: A Communist in the Detroit Labor Movement," Nature, Society and Thought, Oct. 1990.

and Dan Butts, "Men's Health and New Work Values," Men's Studies Review, October 1990.

"The New Unionism: A Report from Detroit," Forum for Social Economics, Spring 1990.

and Dan Butts, "Leadership for the 1990's," Journal of Quality and Participation, December 1989.

"AIDS, Labor Law and Good Management," Labor Law Journal, March 1989.

and Richard Gaulker, "Working Smart East & West," Detroit Business Journal, Oct. 1988.

"The Future of Business Education," Renaissance Universal Journal, Vol. 4, July 1985.

Proceedings:

Teaching the Whole Person, International Academy of Business Discipline, San Francisco, April l998

The Corporate Planet, International Academy of Business Disciplines, San Francisco, April l998

Innovative Teaching with the Use of Guest Speakers, Midwest Business Administration Association, Chicago, March l997

The Post Modern Spiritual Future of Work, International Academy of Business Disciplines, Orlando, April l997

AIDS in the Workplace, Applied Ethics Conference, Cal State Long Beach, March 1996.

"Managing the Multi-National Firm: Global Health Care Issues for Business, International Academy of Business Disciplines, New Orleans, April 1993.

and Matt Seeger, Michele Simms, "Management Philosophy on Employees and Catastrophic Illness," International Academy of Management and Marketing, Detroit, April 1991.

"The Administrative Leader as Servant Leader," The American Society for Public Administration, White Plains, April 1991.

"Downsizing Business in the 1990's: A Global Challenge," Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Ypsilanti, March 1991.

"Global Health Promotion in an Age of AIDS," International Congress on AIDS, Bangkok, Thailand, December 1990.

"Global Management Issues for the 90's," International Management and Marketing Association, Pittsburgh, April 1989.

"Quality Control and Human Performance Systems," Midwest Decision Sciences Institute, April 1989.
and R. Gaulker, "Working Smarter: East and West," Pan Pacific Conference, Singapore, May 1988.

PAPER REVIEWER/PRESENTATIONS

Paper Reviewer:
Standing Conference for Management and Organization Inquiry
The Journal of Organizational Change Management, special editor, l997 and l999
The Academy of Management
International Academy of Business Disciplines (IABD)
Men's Studies Review
The Academician

Session Chair:

"Work and Spirit", International Academy of Business Disciplines, Orlando, March 2003

“Diversity Symposia”, International Academy of Business Disciplines, Chicago, March l999

“Trends in Diversity Training”, Midwest Business Administration Association, Chicago, March l997

“Spirituality and Work”, International Academy of Business Disciplines, San Francisco, April l998

"Total Quality Management in Higher Education," Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco, Nov 1992.

"On-Site Seminar to New United Motors, Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco, Nov 1992.

"GM Cadillac Baldridge Award," Decision Sciences Institute, November l99l

"Bringing AIDS in the Workplace into the Business School Curriculum," Innovative Education Track, Decision Sciences Institute, Miami, November 1991.

Academy of Management, Miami, August 1991, Joint Symposia, Division of Organizational Communications and the Division of Health Care Administration.

Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, March 1992, 1991, 1990

International Academy of Management and Marketing, 1991, 1990, 1989.

Presentations:

"Aging Into Sageing," Quest Books Seattle November 2005
"Tolerance and Civility," First Baptist Church Seattle November 2005
"Global Education for Global Ethics", International Educators for World Peace, San Francisco, 2005
"Corporate Visions for A Nonviolent Workplace", 7th Global Conference on Nonviolence, Detroit, 2005
"Peacemaking as a Leadership Skill," Spiritual Awareness Week, Morehouse College, International Association of Educators for World Peace, International Conference and Symposia, Atlanta, 2004.
"Consciousness and Graduate Business Education, Presidio Dialogues, San Francisco, 2004 "Men, Power and Justice", Men's Studies Association, San Francisco, 2004
“TV as the New Church,” The World Social Forum, Porto Allegre, Brazil, 2003.
"Work and Spirit", International Academy of Business Disciplines, Orlando, 2003
“Diversity Education and Training,” Legal Studies in Business, Midwest Business Administration Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, March, 2002.
“Inclusiveness in Diversity Policy”, Student Diversity Conference, March l999
“Soul at Work”, The Theosophical Society, Royal Oak, MI, June l998
“Putting Soul into Work, Borders Books, Birmingham, MI, November l998
“Aging into Sageing”, Borders Books, Southfield, MI, November l997
Politics of Meaning, Session Moderator, San Francisco, May 29, 1996.
"Positive Strategies for Overcoming the Radical Right," Michigan Democratic Party, March 26, 1996.
"Co-Management: A Necessary Ingredient for Economic Growth," Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Kalamazoo, March 1993.
"Total Quality Management in Higher Education," Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco, November 1992.
and Dick Danjin and Mark Stepp, "The Modern Operating Agreement: Progress Toward Industrial Democracy," American Society of Quality Control and Engineering Society of Detroit, March 1992.
"GM Cadillac Quality Symposium," Production Operations Management Track, Decision Sciences Institute, Miami, November 1991.
and Thomas Steinfatt, "Transcultural Communications," National Speech
Communications Annual Convention, Atlanta, November 1991.
"AIDS in the Workplace," Joint Symposia Chair, Academy of Management, Miami, August 1991.
"Men and Job Satisfaction," 16th Annual Conference on Men and Masculinity, Tucson, June 1991.
"AIDS and Leadership," Association for Humanistic Psychology, Indianapolis, April 1991.
"Management Philosophy on Employee Catastrophic Illness, a Global Model for the 21st Century," International Academy of Management and Marketing, Detroit, April 1991.
"The Administrative Leader as Servant Leader," The American Society for Public Administration, White Plains, April 1991.
"The Communist Party in the Detroit Labor Movement, a Case Study," 17th Annual Southwest Labor Studies Conference, University of the Pacific, March 1991.
"Detroit Labor," Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Albion, March 1990.
"Work rights in the Age of AIDS," Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 1989.
"Creating a Positive Learning Environment," UAW-Chrysler National Training Center/ Employment Training Counselors, Detroit, October 1989.
"World Health Issues - 1999 & Beyond," Sixth World Assembly, World Future Society, Washington, July 1989.
"A Global Symposia on the World Management of the AIDS Crisis," International Management and Marketing Association, Pittsburgh, April 1989.
"Unionism's Contribution to Detroit," Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Grand Rapids, March 1989.
"Labor's Future: History as Strategy and Vision," Marxist Scholars Conference, University of Louisville, March 1989.
"Social Economy and Age Discrimination - A Detroit Case Study," Allied Social Science, Association of Social Economists, December 1988.
"Future Trends in Business Education," Michigan Business Education Association, Detroit, Nov. 1988.
"AIDS in the Workplace," Social Issues Symposium, National Academy of Management, Los Angeles, August 1988.
"Working Smarter: East and West'" Pan-Pacific Conference, Singapore, May 1988.
"Creativity in Business," Celebration of Innovation, San Francisco, November 1987.
"Economic Survival, Self-Esteem, Personal Effectiveness," National Univ., Oakland, August 1987.
"Hope in an Age of AIDS," Association of Humanistic Psychology, Mills College, Oakland, Aug 1987.
"Peace in the Organization," Association for Humanistic Psychology, San Diego, August 1986.
"Ethics and Business," Western Academy of Management, Reno, March 1986.
"What Are the Bishops of the U.S. Saying About the Economy?," Holy Name College, Oakland, February 1986.
"Coping with Organizational and Occupational Change," Macomb County Intermediate School District, Mt. Clemens, January 1986.
"Men, Jobs, Stress and Work Satisfaction," National Organization of Changing Men, Conference on Men and Masculinity, St. Louis, June 1985.

University of Detroit Mercy Working Papers:

and Dan Butts, "Why Men Work."

and Matthew Seeger, Michele Simms, "AIDS, The Workplace and Health Promotion," 90-6.

"Wrongful Discharge and Forensic Economics," 90-5.

and Dan Butts, "Men's Health and New Work Values," 90-4.

"The Marketability of (MBA-CPA) Accountant," (A Case Study), 90-3.

"AIDS in Business," 89-15.

"Looking Backward 1988 to 1938: Labor Contribution to Detroit," 88-17.

"Marketability of a Terminated Older Worker: A Case Study," 88-18.

"Positive Management Counteracting Workplace Fear: Developing an AIDS Policy for Hospitals," 88.

"Working Smarter East & West," 88.




PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

Vice Chancellor, International Association of Educators for Wprld Peace 2005
Academy of Management
Decision Sciences Institute
International Academy of Business Disciplines
Midwest Business Administration Association
Organization Development & Transformation Network
World Future Society
Canadian-American Institute
Labor Educators, Detroit Chapter
Michigan Labor History Society

CONSULTING

Kingdom of Thailand, Department of Export Promotion, Increasing Auto Parts Exporting
UAW-Chrysler National Training Center
Expert Witness in litigation involving reemployment opportunities - Honigman Miller
UAW-GM Human Resource Center/Paid Education Leave Training Program
China-USA International Seminars and Trade Tour
Wellness Group Inc. (Southfield MI) "Rekindling the Spirit at Work"

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Host, WPON-AM weekly radio show “Working Detroit” with Metro Detroit AFL-CIO
Detroit Interfaith Roundtable Dialogue Program (Maureen Fay, OP co-chair)
Host, Public Affairs Radio Show, "Stir It Up," WDRQ-FM
Convener, Citizens for Tolerance and Decency, 1996
Member, Board of Trustees, The New College of California (former)
Conference on Priorities and Economic Conversion, Institute for Urban and Community Affairs, UDM, 1991
Public Affairs Program Host (former) WMTG-AM
United Auto Workers History Series/Midwest Institute for Social Studies
Mother Waddles Mission - Student Service Project
Michigan Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)