Leonard J. Glick

About

Leonard J. Glick is an Executive Professor of Management and Organizational Development and a Senior Academic Specialist at Northeastern University, located at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business. His academic background includes an EdD in Developmental Psychology and an EdM from Harvard University, as well as a BS from the University of Massachusetts. Glick teaches courses in Organizational Behavior, Strategic Human Resource Management, Great Companies, and High Commitment Organizations, and is also a faculty member of the Design Management Institute where he teaches Managing Creative Staff. His expertise encompasses high performance and high commitment work systems, individual and organizational learning, organizational culture, teams, and organizational change. Glick has significant teaching and consulting experience in designing and implementing organizations that integrate streamlined processes, empowerment, self-managing teams, and innovative practices to improve business results. He has lectured on decreasing training while increasing learning, and his consulting work often involves culture, teams, and change management. Prior to his academic career, Glick gained extensive industry experience, including consulting for CSC/Index and Digital Equipment Corporation, focusing on organizational effectiveness, employee development, and high-performance work systems. He has also served on civic boards, including the Board of Directors of Camp Bauercrest and the School…

Research topics

• Sociology
• History
• Anthropology
• Geography

Selected publications

• Marked in Your Flesh

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2005-07-01 · 56 citations

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  This book traces the history of male infant circumcision from its origins in ancient Judea, through centuries of Christian condemnation and Jewish defense, to its current role in American culture and medical practice. Genesis 17 is the biblical text where infant circumcision was mandated by Judean priests in the 6th century BCE; they characterized it as confirming a covenant, but the deeper meaning of the practice was male supremacy and dominance. Early Christians vehemently rejected circumcisio…

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• Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America

  2005-06-30 · 51 citations

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  Leonard B. Glick offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the current controversy about the ethics of performing such surgery on helpless infants. Things changed dramatically in the 19th century, he shows, when after nearly two millennia of attacking the practice, non-Jews began to laud its health benefits. By the turn of the century, more and more physicians in America and England (but not, interestingly, in continental Europe) were perform…

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• Abraham's Heirs: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe

  1999-01-01 · 23 citations

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  He demonstrates that Ashkenazic Jewish culture was profoundly shaped and conditioned by life in an overwhelmingly Christian society. Drawing on diverse Christian documents, he portrays Christian beliefs about medieval Jews and Judaism with a degree of detail seldom found in Jewish historics. Emphasizing social, political, and economic history, but also duscussing religious topics, Glick describes the evolution of a complex, inherently unequal relationship. Because the Ashkenazic Jews of medieval…

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• Circumcision as Human-Rights Violation: Assessing Benatar and Benatar

  The American Journal of Bioethics · 2003-05-01 · 10 citations

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• Epilogue: The meanings of ethnicity in the Caribbean 1

  Routledge eBooks · 2021 · 1 citations

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  Compared to most of the nations just cited, the small nations of the Caribbean have experienced relatively little in the way of serious and sustained ethnic conflict. For the fact of the matter is that with the passing years ethnicity seems to be emerging as an ever more salient feature of national and international politics, probably a cause of more strife and disunity than any other element in human social organization. Any sustained expressions of ethnicity extending beyond those judged to be…

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Frequent coauthors

• Daniel E. Hebding

  2 shared

• Thomas J. Sullivan

  1 shared

• George Gross

  1 shared

• Margaret Konz Snooks

  1 shared

• Edward Wertheim

  Northeastern University

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• Noah Shenker

  Colgate University

  1 shared

• Leonard Beeghley

  1 shared

• Susannah Heschel

  1 shared

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