[Ailist] AI and Bullying

[Terri McNichol]

Dear Colleagues,

As an advisory board member of the NJ Human Relations Council, bullying is close to my heart because the council was instrumental in getting legislation passed to address bullying and especially protect the victims of bullying. You may have heard how a school in NJ was sued and lost because it was seen as not protecting students adequately who were being bullied. I spoke with an anthropologist at a recent seminar and in conversation asked her what her focus was and she told me "mobbing." It seems that in Italy they have identified situations in the workplace where individuals are deliberately ostracized and/or mistreated. So prevalent and widespread is this on the workplace, hence its name. I think this has been a great thread of discussion because we need an epidemic of Appreciative Inquiry. Imagine a curriculum that built in Appreciative Inquiry from K-12 that wove through its lessons the liberal arts. Instead of a Second Gilded Age we could create in its place a Golden Humanity Age. Fingers crossed that the upcoming US election takes us in that direction!
Terri McNichol

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Just published! See my Appreciative Inquiry case study in The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook. Greenleaf Publishing, UK, and AMACOM in North America.
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Presentations:
"Art or Science: OD in China" at the Nineth Annual Sharing Day, May 3, 2007, New Jersey Organizational Development (OD)Network, NJ. Co-presenter Wei Huang, Ph.D.

"Inverting Western business models: why museum practices are key to a new management paradigm." 2nd International Committee on Management of International Council of Museums (International Council of Museums standing committee on managementINTERCOM/ICOM) Meeting 2006 "New Roles and Missions of Museums" Taipei, Taiwan, November 2-4, 2006.

"The Art of Leading the Museum." 4th Annual Critical Management Studies Conference, Cambridge, UK, July 4-6, 2005.

Article
"Creative marketing strategies in small museums: up close and innovative," in International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing Volume 10 Issue 4 - November 2005 (199 - 287) Special Issue: Creativity and the Nonprofit Marketing Organization.