The Institute for Management Studies

VP of Admin

Karla worked at The Institute for Management Studies as a VP of Admin

The Institute for Management Studies

Chief Operating Officer (COO) & President

THE INSTITUTE FOR MANAGEMENT STUDIES, IMS, has been providing its members with the most innovative and cost-effective management development opportunities since 1974. Today over 400 major organizations, many of them FORTUNE 500 companies, interact with, and learn from, some of the world’s leading management thinkers through their overall development strategy with IMS.

Truckee Meadows Community College

Adjunct Instructor

MGT 212 - Leadership and Human Relations
The focus of the course is on understanding leader and follower behavior in organizations, in terms of both theory and practice. Central to the course is better understanding oneself as a leader and exploring some of the more effective ways of leading others. Some of the most challenging decisions facing future leaders will be those that involve values and morality. As such, the course includes ideas and concepts that will help future leaders incorporate a consideration of ethics into their own leadership approach.

Center for Dynamic Knowledge (aka: Institute for Dynamic Knowledge)

President & Organizational Development Architect

Experienced OD professional now consulting for leaders and executives on strategic thinking; leadership; vision planning; thought processes; developing the infrastructure for a sense of community; change management analysis; engineering & measuring L&D; virtual team development; diversity & inclusion; internal & external communication; executive presence; and creativity & innovation. Also available for workshops, presentations, and keynotes.

University of Nevada, Reno

Adjunct Professor

UNR School of Business - Managerial Sciences, teaching senior level classes on the changing environment of business, diversity & inclusion, business ethics, leadership, and organizational behavior. Through experiential learning students graduate better prepared for the real world of business. “Learning is not a spectator sport.” - D. Blocher

Good News Magazine

Freelance Journalist

GOOD NEWS MAGAZINE, published monthly and distributed throughout Adrian, Tecumseh, Clinton, Brooklyn, Manchester, Onsted and the Irish Hills area of Michigan.

As a Freelance Journalist, I covered community related events, businesses and people. I wrote a regularly featured article titled "Laughing at Life with Karla Rose," an Erma Bombeck style of looking at the peculiar side of life.

The Sense of Community in a Geographically Dispersed Organisation

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, Inderscience

The Sense of Community in a Geographically Dispersed Organisation

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, Inderscience

The Sense of Community in a Geo-Dispersed Corporate Functional Subgroup

ProQuest

The deep-seated qualities of the psychological sense of community (PSOC) are sometimes considered vital to human function and without them we would suffer isolation, loneliness, depression, and alienation. In the late 1980s and early 1990s studies of the psychological sense of community began in the workplace. Understanding this phenomenon, what it is, and the implications for those who feel a sense of community and those who do not can be a strength or benchmark for teams and groups of geographically dispersed organizations to build models for improvement. While PSOC is generally measured by an individual’s perception of a referent community to which they belong, cohesion is the collective look at PSOC. This study evaluates the sense of community in the context of a geographically dispersed community, where PSOC is both relational and locational. A mixed methods approach to the case study is done through the use of surveys, ethnographic observation, and interviews. Key findings in this study include 16 unique descriptive characteristics for FSPSOC, a strong linear correlation between cohesion and the PSOC, and ambiguity in the term community. In addition, it was established that employees perceive geographic dispersion as directly impacting PSOC.

The Sense of Community in a Geographically Dispersed Organisation

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, Inderscience

The Sense of Community in a Geo-Dispersed Corporate Functional Subgroup

ProQuest

The deep-seated qualities of the psychological sense of community (PSOC) are sometimes considered vital to human function and without them we would suffer isolation, loneliness, depression, and alienation. In the late 1980s and early 1990s studies of the psychological sense of community began in the workplace. Understanding this phenomenon, what it is, and the implications for those who feel a sense of community and those who do not can be a strength or benchmark for teams and groups of geographically dispersed organizations to build models for improvement. While PSOC is generally measured by an individual’s perception of a referent community to which they belong, cohesion is the collective look at PSOC. This study evaluates the sense of community in the context of a geographically dispersed community, where PSOC is both relational and locational. A mixed methods approach to the case study is done through the use of surveys, ethnographic observation, and interviews. Key findings in this study include 16 unique descriptive characteristics for FSPSOC, a strong linear correlation between cohesion and the PSOC, and ambiguity in the term community. In addition, it was established that employees perceive geographic dispersion as directly impacting PSOC.

Reframing Human Capital for Organizational Excellence

Bloomsbury Publishing India

Chapter title: "The 'sense of community' in geographically dispersed organizations: A case study of the organization of Burners."

The Sense of Community in a Geographically Dispersed Organisation

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, Inderscience

The Sense of Community in a Geo-Dispersed Corporate Functional Subgroup

ProQuest

The deep-seated qualities of the psychological sense of community (PSOC) are sometimes considered vital to human function and without them we would suffer isolation, loneliness, depression, and alienation. In the late 1980s and early 1990s studies of the psychological sense of community began in the workplace. Understanding this phenomenon, what it is, and the implications for those who feel a sense of community and those who do not can be a strength or benchmark for teams and groups of geographically dispersed organizations to build models for improvement. While PSOC is generally measured by an individual’s perception of a referent community to which they belong, cohesion is the collective look at PSOC. This study evaluates the sense of community in the context of a geographically dispersed community, where PSOC is both relational and locational. A mixed methods approach to the case study is done through the use of surveys, ethnographic observation, and interviews. Key findings in this study include 16 unique descriptive characteristics for FSPSOC, a strong linear correlation between cohesion and the PSOC, and ambiguity in the term community. In addition, it was established that employees perceive geographic dispersion as directly impacting PSOC.

Reframing Human Capital for Organizational Excellence

Bloomsbury Publishing India

Chapter title: "The 'sense of community' in geographically dispersed organizations: A case study of the organization of Burners."

The Virtual Executive

McGraw-Hill

Contributing author. Republished as a selected excerpt for The Globe and Mail titled "CEOs: Fire off that quick e-mail at your peril" (May, 2012).