Charles D. Little, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer – Marketing and Management
Phone : 817/944-9825
e-mail: drclittle@gmail.com
Education:
- Ph.D. – University of North Texas
- MBA - University of Tennessee
- BS - University of Tennessee
Research Interests:
- Work Teams in Organizations
- Marketing in Nonprofit Organizations
Professional Experience:
- Texas A&M University-Commerce, Senior Lecturer, 2008 to present
- Texas Wesleyan University, Assoc. Dean of Business, 2004 to 2008
- General Services Administration, Regional Director, 1982 to 2004
- Interstate Commerce Commission, Special Agent, 1974 to 1982
Dr. Charles Little is a native Tennessean, born and raised in Nashville. He graduated from high school there in 1966, and attended Tennessee Tech University for his freshman and sophomore years of college.
After his first two years of college, Dr. Little entered the United States Air Force, where he served two years. In 1970, he returned to finish his college degree, majoring in business, at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Upon graduation with his BS degree, he remained at the University of Tennessee to pursue the Masters in Business Administration (MBA). He was awarded that degree in March of 1974, and immediately accepted a position with the United States Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in Washington, DC.
Dr. Little served almost ten years as a criminal investigator with the ICC in Washington, Chicago, and Fort Worth, achieving the level of District Director and Supervisor of Investigations over an eight-state area while in the Fort Worth regional office. He moved into this supervisory position after less than six years of federal service. During this time, he either participated in or led major projects and investigations involving such criminal activities as illegal agricultural cooperatives, bogus brokerage activities, “lumping,” weight fraud, and duplicate payments, all of which were covered by national news media.
Dr. Little was offered the position of Director, Transportation Services with the United States General Services Administration (GSA) in November of 1982. He accepted this position and spent the remainder of his career in various managerial and then executive positions working out of GSA’s regional offices in Fort Worth, Texas. Such positions included, Director of the Southwest Distribution Center, Director Contract Management, and Director of Marketing and Business Development. During the course of Dr. Little’s federal career, he led supply projects for military activities in the Middle East, Somolia, and the Falklands. He also led supply projects for such disasters as floods, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, and the bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
During his career with the federal government, Dr. Little (beginning in 1980) pursued his Ph.D. in business at the University of North Texas. After earning this degree in 1985, he began teaching as an adjunct professor in the MBA programs at Dallas Baptist University and Texas Wesleyan University. He taught various graduate classes in management and marketing at these two institutions. During that time, he began writing his book High Performance Work Teams, which he now uses in his classes.
In July of 2004, Dr. Little retired from the U.S. General Services Administration in order to accept the position of Associate Dean of Business at Texas Wesleyan University. He left that position in May of 2008 to accept his current position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Management at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
In his spare time, Dr. Little stays busy researching and writing in his chosen academic fields of marketing and management. He enjoys golf, fishing, and traveling.
