Glenn M. Gomes, Ph.D.^*

Professor Emeritus

^*(University of Southern California; at CSUC since 1985)

Ph.D., Business Administration, University of Southern California, 1984.
M.B.A., Management, Pepperdine University, 1979.
M.A., History, University of California, Davis, 1973.
B.A., Sociology, California State University, Hayward, 1972.
B.A., History, California State College, Hayward, 1971.

Department of Management
College of Business
California State University, Chico
Chico, California 95929-0031
530.898-5663

Greetings from Chico!

shooter shooter You have reached the internet home of Glenn M. Gomes, Professor Emeritus of Management in the College of Business, California State University, Chico. I am a native Californian--born (1949), raised, and educated in the Golden State. After receiving my Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1984, I joined the Department of Management at CSUC in 1985 (and here is a brief academic résumé). Recently I entered the Faculty Early Retirement Program, whereby I teach only during the spring semesters over the next five years. When not in the classroom, I enjoy my Western European travels, especially to England, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands (and now I have even more time to indulge my wanderlust); competition skeet shooting; listening to many forms of music (and sometimes wishing I was playing bass guitar in the band); and remembering the best of times, walking and playing with my special little canine friend, Gorby, who may be gone now, but who will never be forgotten. For those of you seeking a smile and some lighter fare, perhaps a quick venture to Guv's Gallery for a glimpse of a much younger version of my current self--plus some more recent "on the road" pictures--might do the trick. Thanks for dropping by for a visit!!

Teaching Interests:

Strategic Management and Business Policy

Business and Society

Courses Typically Taught:

BADM 495 - Seminar in Applied Strategic Decision Making (Spring 2008 BADM495 Syllabus)
MGMT 440 - Managing the Business-Society Relationship (Spring 2008 MGMT440 Syllabus)

Research Interests:

Legal Issues in Human Resource Management Policy

Strategic Creation and Economic Valuation of Intangible Assets

The Just Cause vs. Employment-at-Will Debate

"Unfair Competition" and Not-for-Profit Business Activities

Journal Publications:

"Broadening the Definition of Unlawful Retaliation Under Title VII" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, forthcoming, June 2008.

"The Paramour's Advantage: Sexual Favoritism and Permissibly Unfair Discrimination" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 18(2), June 2006, pp. 73-88.

"A New Look at Harassment by Supervisors: Focusing on Partitioning Damages Rather than on Assigning Liability" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), SAM Advanced Management Journal, 70(2), Spring 2005, pp. 28-35.

"Addressing the Growing Inadequacies of the Ellerth/Faragher Affirmative Defense: Fashioning A Sensible and Feasible Solution" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 17(1), March 2005, pp. 31-45.

"The California Spin on Harassment by Supervisors: Avoidable Consequences and the Focus on Damages" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Labor Law Journal, 55(3), Fall 2004, pp. 166-178.

"Now You Have It, Now You Don't: The NLRB’s Fickle Affair with the Weingarten Right and the Need for Congress to End the Controversy," (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Journal of Individual Employment Rights, 11(2), 2003-2004, pp. 155-165.

"Implementing the EU’s New Sexual Harassment Directive: Are Employers Entitled to a Defense?," (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Journal of Individual Employment Rights, 11(2), 2003-2004, pp. 89-110.

"Prohibiting Sexual Harassment in the European Union: An Unfinished Public Policy Agenda" (with James M. Owens and James F. Morgan), Employee Relations, 26(3), 2004, pp. 292-306.

"Sexual Harassment in the European Union: The Dawning of a New Era" (with James M. Owens and James F. Morgan), SAM Advanced Management Journal, 69(1), Winter 2004, pp. 4-11; 49. Reprinted in Fred H. Maidment, ed., Annual Editions: Human Resources 05/06, 15th ed., McGraw Hill/Dushkin, 2005.

"Union Rules Intrude Upon the Nonunion Domain: Workplace Investigations and the NLRB" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 14(1), March 2002, pp. 33-43.

"Union Rules in Nonunion Settings: The NLRB and Workplace Investigations" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), SAM Advanced Management Journal, 67(1), Winter 2002, pp. 22, 27-33, 40.

"The NLRB and Workplace Investigations: A Managerial Perspective on Applying Union Rules to the Nonunion Workforce" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Journal of Individual Employment Rights, 9(3), 2000-2001, pp. 173-185.

"The Unintended Consequences of Outsourcing Sexual Harassment Investigations" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Journal of Individual Employment Rights, 9(2), 2000-2001, pp. 123-137.

"Strange Bedfellows: The Fair Credit Reporting Act and Workplace Investigations" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Labor Law Journal, 52(2), Summer 2001, pp. 89-99.

"Outsourcing Investigations of Sexual Harassment: The Unexpected Consequences of Good Intentions" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Employment Relations Today, 27(4), Winter 2001, pp. 65-78.

"Investigating Workplace Discrimination: The Impact of the Fair Credit Reporting Act" (with James F. Morgan and James M. Owens), Journal of Employment Discrimination Law, 2(4), Fall 2000, pp. 324-331.

"Wrongful Termination and the Expanding Public Policy Exception: Implications and Advice" (with Susan Gardner and James F. Morgan), SAM Advanced Management Journal, 65(1), Winter 2000, pp. 38-44.

"Meeting the Wrongful Discharge Challenge: Legislative Options for Small Business" (with James F. Morgan), Journal of Small Business Management, 30(4), October 1992, pp. 96-105.

"Managerial Prerogatives, Employee Expectations, and Property Rights in Job Security: Institutionalizing the 'New Equity'" (with James F. Morgan), International Journal of Value-Based Management, 4(1), 1991, pp. 25-43.

"Managing the Future Employment Relationship: The Legislative Alternative" (with James F. Morgan), SAM Advanced Management Journal, 56(3), Summer 1991, pp. 41-46.

"Unfair 'Just Compensation': Reforming Eminent Domain Law for Small Business" (with James F. Morgan), Journal of Small Business Management, 27(4), October 1989, pp. 17-25.

"Excess Earnings, Competitive Advantage, and Goodwill Value," Journal of Small Business Management, 26(3), July 1988, pp. 22-31.

"Commercial Nonprofits, Untaxed Entrepreneurialism, and 'Unfair Competition'" (with James M. Owens), Journal of Small Business Management, 26(2), April 1988, pp. 8-16.

On Higher Education

"If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can reach me by e-mail at: ggomes@csuchico.edu