Apart from the books described already described, Glenn has written and produced many other publications. Perhaps the first was an educational program for manual arts while he was teaching at a junior Catholic high school. Glenn was a mathematics and manual arts teacher at St Mary’s High School, Casino, from 1978 to 1983.

Glenn and another teacher, Rock O’Keefe, worked together to produce the program. The school taught Years 7 to 10, and the manual arts (or Technics) program covered woodwork, wood machining, metalwork and metal machining, plastics, ceramics and leatherwork. The program book was 120 pages long, and Glenn felt that it was his first “book”, even though he didn’t envisage life as a manual arts teacher.

Glenn’s next writing project was with Casino Municipal Council as a Community Profile Officer, in 1985. The job was created under the Labor Government’s Community Employment Program. The job was to research the community service needs of the town and produce a report and recommendations. Little guidance was given on frameworks to use, or the purpose.

Glenn did a lot of reading and talking, and found a framework for community social needs in the United Way of America Services Identification System (UWASIS). Its beauty was that it was not superficial; it articulated deep and comprehensive thinking about needs and values. On this conceptual foundation, Glenn researched a wide range of data and produced a report for Council, 104 pages of foolscap paper that most Councillors were not interested in reading.

However, the Councillors let Glenn talk to them at a meeting, and he presented the heart and the values behind the data. He also complemented his Community Profile Report with a directory of existing community services (surprising many Councillors with what existed in their town), and a report on housing, which was a key issue. The Council subsequently applied for Federal funding to set up housing for lower-income people in their town, and the project was implemented successfully. It also set up a SkillShare centre for unemployed youth as a result of the report.

Glenn was subsequently appointed as the first General Manager of the Casino Branch of the Challenge Foundation, an organisation which provided services to people with intellectual disabilities. Over the six years from February 1986 to December 1991, Glenn consolidated and extended its services. It grew to provide supported employment, independent living training, accommodation for both children and adults, and respite care.

From a writing perspective, Glenn produced regular reports for the local management committee, as well as annual reports, newsletters, funding submissions to Federal and State Governments, and acquittals of funding. Glenn had become aware that writing ability can be a powerful factor in job performance, and the funding of the local body grew fivefold over six years.

Glenn was also solid in the belief that words had to be grounded in reality, that integrity must lie at the core of a person’s actions and assertions. He learned, rather cruelly, that some people do not subscribe to this belief. At the end of six years’ service, he was sacked by the committee, for concocted deficiencies in performance. The sacking was orchestrated by the state central body. This was the lowest point of Glenn’s working life, knowing that the claims were complete fabrications, carried out for a political agenda that lay elsewhere.

It took Glenn a while to recover faith that his performance in the job had been sound, in fact, exemplary, and it took 25 years before Glenn told the story. It was finally aired in The Ten Thousand Things in 2010.

After Glenn got the sack from the Challenge Foundation in Casino, he discovered that no one would employ him. It was not that he had been shown to have perpetrated any wrong, it was just that there was plenty of choice for employees on the north coast, so why employ a hot potato?

Deciding to step sideways, Glenn went to university, enrolling in a Bachelor of Business degree in Lismore, and graduated with First Class Honours and the University Medal. Applying for jobs everywhere along the east coast, he ended up with a job as writer/editor on human resources for CCH Australia in Sydney.

academic PAPERS

Glenn also began writing papers for academic journals, examining topics within the province of human resource management, business ethics and human values. In the space of a few years he had the following papers published.

Martin, G & Woldring, K 1997, Human resource management and business ethics: gaps galore, Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, Wagga Wagga, October 1996, Keon Publications, Wagga Wagga, pp.146-157.

Martin, G 1998, Once again: why should business be ethical? Business & Professional Ethics Journal, vol. 17, No. 4, p. 39-60.

Martin, G & Woldring, K 2001, Ready for the mantle? Australian human resource managers as stewards of ethics, International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 243-255.

Martin, G 2007, A values framework connecting ethics and aspiration in organisations, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, vol. 9 no. 2, p. 56-65.

Martin, G 2011, The role of stories in the development of values and wisdom as expressions of spirituality, Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of Spirituality, Leadership and Management: “Wisdom at Work”, Sydney, September 2011, Spirituality, Leadership and Management Inc, Sydney, pp. 32-45.

Martin, G 2011, Human values: A unifying framework for ethics and spirituality, Australasian Business Ethics Network Conference, “Business Ethics: Expectations and Disappointments”, digital proceedings, Peter McGhee (ed.), 2-3 December, Auckland University of Technology.

Martin, G 2011, The role of stories in the development of values and wisdom as expressions of spirituality, Journal of Spirituality, Leadership and Management, vol. 5, pp. 14-24.

Martin, G 2012, A values framework for ethical business, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 63-77.

Martin, G 2012, Developing the consciousness of leaders: An interview with Richard Barrett, Journal of Spirituality, Leadership and Management, vol. 6, pp. 71-73.

Martin, G 2012, Book review: Inner peace – global impact: Tibetan Buddhism, leadership, and work, Journal of Spirituality, Leadership and Management, vol. 6, pp. 76-77.

Martin, G 2020, Rethinking the content of ethics education courses, Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, vol. 24: Educating for Ethical Survival, pp. 139-145.

Associate Editor of the Journal of Spirituality, Leadership and Management

Glenn worked as the associate editor for this academic journal between 2010 and 2015, and was responsible for editing academic papers and for the layout of the journal.

He has one paper published in the journal, along with an interview and a book review.

Articles for professional magazines

Glenn wrote extensively for CCH Australia over a period of fifteen years, and he fostered a greater public presence with articles published in a variety of professional magazines.

He has had over 20 articles published in the following professional magazines:

• Training & Development in Australia

• HR Monthly

• Management Today

• Employment Review Australia

• Australian Law Management Journal

• Dynamic Small Business

• Australian Business Solutions

• Australian Ethics.

Editor of Training & Development in Australia

Glenn was the editor of this magazine, the official publication of Australian Institute of Training & Development, from 2006 to 2010. He wrote many articles and reports, edited articles from industry contributors and conducted interviews with leading Australian and international people in the learning & development field.

Published material at CCH Australia

Glenn wrote and researched happily for more than 15 years at CCH Australia. CCH was considered to be a font of knowledge and wisdom for professional audiences, and employees of the company were inspired to live up to that standard. Glenn made extensive contributions to the following products.

Human Resources Management information service (two-volume, 3,000-page loose-leaf guide for Australian & New Zealand human resource officers and managers, updated bi-monthly); Glenn tended this service and contributed content for around five years.

The Manager’s Manual (1,500-page loose-leaf guide on management, updated twice annually); Glenn tended this service and contributed for around five years.

HR Skills for Managers Training Kit; editor for about five years.

Coaching Skills for Managers Training Kit; writer and editor for this product, in conjunction with Margaret Stolmack.

Bulletins for Human Resources Management: papers on specific topic areas – about 15 written and published.

Book chapters for specific professional areas, eg employment law, work health and safety; about 10 written and published.

Australian Master Human Resources Guide

First produced in 2004. 11th edition (2016). Published by CCH Australia (Wolters Kluwer).

Glenn was editor for several years, and contributed chapters on “Learning and development”, “Education and development for HR practitioners”, “Coaching and mentoring” and “Ethics, corporate social responsibility and human resource management”.

Production of training manual

Glenn was the co-writer (with Margaret Stolmack) of a manual on mentoring programs, Introducing Mentoring into Your Organisation, which included training courses for mentors and mentorees.

Introducing Mentoring into Your Organisation

The manual enables organisations to effectively plan and implement structured mentoring programs. It includes training programs for mentors and mentorees.

Published by Training Point (2005).