The Worden Report
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Bucking Starbucks' Star

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Common sense would perhaps dictate that a company sporting a managerial culture of pathological lying as the default way of dealing with sta...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Rockford University: Paranoid on the Periphery

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A young library supervisor of student workers at Rockford University insisted that Christmas is only a private holiday because it is exclusi...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

On the Aristocracy of Wealth

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The rule of a few—aristocracy. The rule of the wealthy—plutocracy. Where the few, being valued above the many, are determined principally on...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

The Electoral College: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom

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The matter of how the U.S. President is to be selected was a tough nut for the delegates in the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to crack. ...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Thanksgiving as a Day of Mourning: On the Instinctual Urge of Resentment

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 According to CNN’s website, the “sobering truth about the harvest feast that inspired Thanksgiving” is is the fact that colonists killed In...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Compromising Public Health for a States' Rights Ideology: The Governor of Arizona Nullified a Federal Law during a Pandemic

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On October 27, 2021, I rode on two mass transit buses in Phoenix, Arizona. Both drivers were knowingly and willfully violating the federal r...

On the Role of Business in a Societal or Global Catastrophe

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While it is obvious that a business or industry can affect and be affected by its environment, such as by polluting a river and a hurricane,...
Friday, October 22, 2021

On the Weakening of the Rule of Law in the U.S.

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When law enforcement (i.e., police) conveniently exclude themselves from obeying law, the contradiction should, I submit, be sufficient for ...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

A Professional Misnomer: Self-Proclaimed Professionals

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By the turn of the twenty-first century, the term, "professional" had become such a cherished word in the American lexicon that...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Arizona’s Dysfunctional Business and Governmental Culture Creates a Crisis in the Coronavirus Pandemic

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On January 15, 2021, the New York Times reported that Arizona had the highest 7-day daily average per capita of deaths and new cases of the ...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Ethical Human Resources Management

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Ethics applied to human resource management is typically thought to boil down to treating subordinates well. Kant’s categorical imperative, ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Hypocritical CSR during a Pandemic: O’Reilly Automotive, Inc.

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In the retail sector, the behavior of managers and their employees at the store level is particularly relevant to customers. This relevance,...
Monday, November 16, 2020

On the Rushed Sainthood of Pope John Paul II: Metaphysics and Ideology Triumphant

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Just days after the death of Pope John Paul II, “cardinals eager to uphold his conservative policies had already begun discussing putting hi...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Corporate Federalism: Did AOL Miss an Opportunity?

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Citing twelve past and present AOL employees, The Wa ll Street Journal characterized AOL in 2011 as a “culture of clashing fiefs and perso...

Taxation and Economic Inequality

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The top 1% of U.S. taxpayers had 19.4% of the total income in 2007 and paid 28.1% of all federal taxes. In 1987, the top 1% had had 11.2% o...
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