Janet Mills, Ph.D.
Publications
Scholarly Publications and Presentations
An experiential learning text as introduction to public administration. Panel (with R. Cunningham, B. Never, P. Henderson, C. Howe and W. Pridemore) at the 30th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May, 2007.
Teaching under the influence of PA colleagues. Presented at the 29th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, Olympia, Washington, February, 2006. Published in the Proceedings.
Managers, not MBA's: Implications for MPA programs. Panel (with R. Cunningham) at the 29th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, Olympia, Washington, February, 2006.
Revisiting The Wizard of Oz: The journey of a remarkable team (with C. Emery and A. Eatough). Presented at the Northwest Communication Association, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, April 2006.
Strongest self portraits: Appreciative inquiry in action. Presented at the 28th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference in Ft. Walton Beach, FL in February, 2005. Published in the Proceedings.
Putting theories to the test: An explication of William Langewiesche's American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center (with M. Allen, E. Heidemann, and B. Ingles). Presented at the 27th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, February, 2004. Published in the Proceedings.
Gender and communication style: What public administrators know and need to know (with J. Wandell). Presented at the 27th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, February, 2004. Published in the Proceedings.
What are we teaching about gender issues in public affairs programs? (With M. Newman). Presented at the 24th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, February, 2001. Published in the Proceedings.
Managing information technology in the public sector: Teaching non-technical public managers what they need to know (with S. Wilson). Presented at the 22nd Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, March, 1999. Published in the Proceedings.
Enhancing emotional intelligence. Presented at the 21st Teaching Public Administration Conference, March, 1998. Published in the Proceedings.
Teacher flicks: Pedagogy and teaching issues in film (with M. Newman and C. Ventriss). Presented at the 20th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, 1997. Published in the Proceedings.
Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives: A tool for teaching and evaluating student performance. Presented at the 20th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, March, 1997 and published in the Proceedings.
Broken triangles: Experimenting with group problem solving, published in The 1997 Annual (Volume 1 Training), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp. 73-80.
Unconventional assignments and the evaluation of student performance. Presented at the 19th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, February, 1996 and published in the Proceedings, pp. 253-260.
Partnerships within a team (1996). Training modules include: (1) Team Building: Getting Off to a Great Start, (2) Is Your Team a Tug of War? (3) A Team's Stages of Development: A Worthwhile Journey, (4) Facilitation: The Heart of Shared Leadership, (5) Participation: Group Dynamics and Communication Skills, (6) Team Tools: Generating Ideas, Narrowing Choices and Problem Solving, (7) Decision Making on the Team: Deciding How to Decide, (8) Mature Teams: Enhancing Productivity and Avoiding Pitfalls, (9) Team Audit. This training manual was created for and published by the Community Team Training Institutes (CTTI) by the National Women's Resource Center (NWRC), 515 King Street Suite 410, Alexandria, VA 22314. Sponsors for the NWRC include the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Center for Mental Health Services and the Office of Women's Services. CSAP 277-94-3009.
Rowboat in a hurricane: Metaphors of conflict management (with S. McCorkle). Communication Reports, Vol. 5, No. 2, summer, 1992, pp. 57-66.
Like two rams butting heads: A thematic analysis of metaphors describing interpersonal conflict (with S. McCorkle). Presented at the Western Social Sciences Convention, Portland, OR, 1991. Published in Social Science Perspectives Journal, Tahmoores Saraff, Editor, Vol. 6, No. 5, 1991, and pp. 11-26.
Two exercises for teaching about motivation (with M.R. McKnight). Presented at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, San Diego, 1988. Published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Exercises, Patricia Sanders and Tom Pray, Eds. Vol. 14, 1988, pp. 113-117.
Adapted for use in an Instructor's Manual accompanying Organizational Behavior by J. Wagner and J. Hollenbeck, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1992.
Adapted for use in The Managerial Experience by Lawrence R. Jauch, Dryden Press, 1993.
Sex roles and the good manager with K.K. Iwamoto. Presented at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, San Diego, 1988. Published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Exercises, Patricia Sanders and Tom Pray, Eds. Vol. 14, 1988, p. 118-120.
Six thinking hats: An exercise to combat confusion and develop thinking skills. Presented at the Association for business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, San Diego, 1988. Published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Exercises, Patricia Sanders and Tom Pray, Eds. Vol. 14, 1988, pp. 201-204.
Adapted for use in an Instructor's Manual accompanying Organizational Behavior by J. Wagner and J. Hollenbeck, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1992.
Moving up: Mobility of CEOs of voluntary community organizations (with K.K. Iwamoto and K. Lilly). Presented at the Fourth Women and Work Conference, Arlington, TX, May, 1987.
Conflict management in action. Presented at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, Hilton Head, 1987. Published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Exercises, Lane Kelley and Patricia Sanders, Eds. Vol. 13, 1987, pp. 138-143.
Features of the boss-secretary relationship (with M. Fitch-Hauser). Presented at the Third Annual Women and Work Symposium, Arlington, TX, 1986.
Using the real world: Interviews with women managers. Presented at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, Reno, 1985. Published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Exercises, Alvin C. Burns and Lane Kelley, Eds. Vol. 13, 1986, pp. 21-25.
Communication between the sexes. Presented at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Educational Buyers, Houston, 1984. Published in The 1985 Proceedings, Houston Annual Meeting and Product Exhibit, J. Michael Friend, Ed., Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1985, pp. 31-77.
Raising Elizabeth: Socializing girls to aspire to careers as managers, secretaries or corporate wives. Presented at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, Lake Buena Vista, FL, 1985. Published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Exercises, James W. Gentry and Alvin C. Burns, Eds. Vol. 12, 1985, pp. 145-149.
Adapted for use in Alice Sargent, Beyond Sex Roles, second edition, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1985, pp. 106-109.
Adapted for publication as, "Raising Elizabeth: Socializing occupational choices," in J.W. Pfeiffer and J.E. Jones, Eds. The 1986 Annual Developing Human Resources, San Diego, University Associates Press, 1986, pp. 21-25.
Adapted for publication as, "Raising Elizabeth/Robert" in Gender and Diversity in the Workplace, by Gary N. Powell. Sage Publication, 1994.
Body language speaks louder than words, Horizons, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 8-13, 1985.
Reprinted in Body Language Speaks Louder Than Words, in Joan Ferrante, Sociology: A Global Approach, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, pp. 303-307.
Photographs adapted for use in Roberta Alexander & Jan Lombardi. (2007) A Community of Readers: A Thematic Approach to Reading (Fourth Edition) New York: Pearson Longman, pp 294-295.
Photographs reprinted in F.E. Donelson, (1998) Women's Experiences: A Psychological Perspective, New York: Mayfield Publishing Co., p. 328
Self-posed behaviors of females and males in photographs. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Vol. 10, No. 7/8, 1984, pp. 633-637.
Rapport and hierarchy: You can see the difference. Presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association, 1983, Bloomington, IN. Published in Visual Literacy: Enhancing Human Potential, Alice D. Walker, Roberts A. Braden and Lenora H. Dunker, Eds. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1984, pp. 53-57.
Conflict management for economic developers. Presented at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, Tulsa, 1983. Published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Exercises, Lee. A. Graf and David M. Currie, Eds. Vol. 10, 1983, pp. 76-80.
Men and women speak different body language. Presented to the 14th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association, 1982, Vancouver, Canada. Published in Visualizing Ourselves in a Social Context, Roberts A. Braden and Alice D. Walker, Eds. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana, 1983, pp. 149-61.
Reprinted in Media and Adult Learning, Vol. 7, No. 1, Kansas State University, 1985, pp. 14-25.
Gender displays in portrait photographs. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1982, pp. 33-43.
The magic of working with people: Contributions of neuro-linguistic programming to visual literacy (with T.J. Ragan). Presented to the 13th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association, Lexington, KY, 1981. Published in Television and Visual Literacy, Roberts A. Braden, Ed., Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana, 1982, pp. 87-106.
Adapted as Working effectively with people: Contributions of neuro-linguistic programming to visual literacy, with T.J. Ragan. Journal of Visual-Verbal Languaging, Vol. 2, No. 2, University of Iowa, 1982, p. 67-79.
The promotion: Human sexuality in organizations. Presented at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, Orlando, FL, 1981. Published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Exercises, W.D. Biggs and D.J. Fritzsche, Eds. Vol. 8, 1981, pp. 1-3.
Adapted for publication in Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Trainer's Package, San Diego: Pfeiffer & Company, 1992.
Adapted for publication in R.A. Burns, Women in Government and Politics: Gender, Image and Public Life, New Brunswick, NJ: Eagleton Institute of Politics, 1981, pp. 95-100.
Adapted for publication as, The promotion: Values Clarification, in J. W. Pfeiffer and J.E. Jones, Eds. A Handbook of Structured Experiences for Human Relations Training, Vol. 9, San Diego: University Associates Press, 1983, p. 152-158.
Adapted as a book chapter, Human sexuality in the work place, in Lane Kelley and Arthur A. Whatley, Personnel Management in Action: Skill Building Exercises, third edition, New York: West Publishing Co., 1984, pp. 23-31.
Pose preferences in social and business photographs (with A.D. Smouse). Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, Vol. 7, No. 3, summer, 1981, pp. 76-82.
Missed meanings in nurse-patient communications. American Journal of Maternal and Child Nursing, Vol. 5, Jan/Feb, 1980, pp. 55-57.
Maps of process. et cetera, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 1979. (poem)
Getting in the ole boys' club: Interview training for women. Vocational Guidance Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2, Dec 1979, pp. 219-136. Go try your wings, Jonathan. Graduate Student A.B.S. Newsletter, spring, 1974, pp. 4-7.
Nonverbal communication: An integral aspect of human communication. In W.D. Brooks, G.N. Friedrich and R.G. Ewing, Eds. Communication Education, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
Reprinted as Nonverbal communication: Common misunderstandings and an appeal for increased awareness. Kansas Speech Journal, Vol. 34, 1972, pp. 17-25.
Interviews and Newspaper Articles
Communication: Gender issues in and out of the dental office. Cross-Planetary, Access, American Dental Hygienists Association, November, 1997
Pillow talk: Communication course teaches BSU students skills for better interaction on the job and with their families, Idaho Statesman, October 1, 1996
Professor gives lesson in body language, The Arbiter, October 16, 1996
Reading between the lines: Gender and communication, by Sharon Breske. ADVANCE for Physical Therapists, Vol. 6. No. 2, Jan. 16, 1995, pp. 28-29
Body politics, by Gwen Rubenstein. Association Management, Vol. 39, No. 4, April, 1987, pp. 55-58
Beyond traditional sex roles, interview by C&FM staff. Credit and Financial Management, November 1987, pp. 34-36.
How do you break workplace male-female stereotypes and treat coworkers equally? Executive Memo: A Summary of Management Trends for Marriott Food Service Management, Volume IX, No. 5, 1987, p. 1
At work: What your body language reveals, by Sandra Gurvis. San Antonio Light, June 19, 1983, pp. 12-14.
The consulting work of Janet Mills Bentz, by Eden Graber The Kinesis Report: News and Views of Nonverbal Communication, Vol. 2, No. 2, winter, 1979, p. 2
Invited Presentations at Colleges and Universities
Personality type at work, Workforce Training Staff, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho, October 2006.
Team building workshop, Workforce Training Staff, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho, October 2005.
You can make a difference, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho, July 2004. Personality Type at Work, Academy of Professional Careers, Boise, Idaho, September 2003.
Body watching and women and men on teams, Sigma Phi Epsilon, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, March 2002.
He leads/She leads, Athena, the Office of Diversity and Human Rights, the Women's Center, the Environmental Science Program and the Women in Science Leadership Seminar, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, October 2002.
Body watching, eavesdropping and Thinking outside the box, University of Arkansas Medical School, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 1999.
Body watching, the Justine Bonsignore Zompa, M.D. Memorial Lecture, Faculty in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, October 1998.
Body watching, Norfleet Forum for the Advancement of Health, University of Tennessee at Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1998.
Body watching & eavesdropping, Fred Nugent Memorial Lecture in Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Reading Hospital and Medical Center, Reading, Pennsylvania, October 1997.
Gender issues workshop, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho, May 1992.
Nonverbal communication, and Communication between the sexes, (presentations) and the body as social text (classroom discussion), Cornell College, Iowa, January 1991.
Social dis-eases, Career Planning and Placement, Communication Department and other sponsors, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1985.
Nonverbal communication and power, Career Planning and Placement, Communication Department and other sponsors, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1985.
Gender behavior, Women's Council, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1982.
Neuro-linguistic programming and hypnosis, Department of Social Work, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1981.
Nonverbal behavior and gender, Women's Conference, Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma, 1981
Nonverbal communication in diagnostic interviews, Department of Nursing, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1978.
Contract groups and structured human relations training, Department of Social Work, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1978.
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