My sincere apologies for cross-posting!
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to our PDW that focuses on the issues involved
in mentoring and coaching individuals who come from a substantially
different socio-cultural background than one�s own:
Mentoring & Coaching Across Social-Cultural Boundaries [#246]
Sunday, Aug. 8, 2004.
Marriott, La Galleries 3
Summary
Panel members will include both practitioners and academics who have both
research and direct applied experience with the PDW topic. The academics
will outline current scientific knowledge about mentoring and coaching
across group boundaries. They and the practitioners will use their personal
and applied-practice experiences to illustrate both the difficulties and
satisfactions of, and strategies for, building effective working
relationships across group boundaries. The panellists will examine
cross-group mentoring issues and approaches both from the Mentor/Coach
perspectives, and from the Mentee/Advisee perspective. Through examples and
exercises, the workshop leaders will provide information about developing,
understanding and creating an effective task and work process in mentoring,
coaching, or advising relationships that cross social-cultural boundaries.
Refreshments will be provided during the PDW. See below for participants
details and topics.
Those who are interested can register by sending an e-mail to Keith James:
kjames@lamar.colostate.edu
For further information please contact the organizers: Jacob Eisenberg,
jacob.eisenberg@ucd.ie or Keith James.
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Participants and topics:
� Keith James (Colorado State U): Discussion of Transformational Leadership
theory and its topics of inspiration and "individualized consideration"
toward skill development and goal attainment as an overarching
theoretical/applied framework.
� John Peoples (Global Lead Management Consulting): Applied work on context
and leadership influences on enhancing effectiveness of diverse
organizations/groups/teams; a practice�based follow up to James� more
academic presentation.
� Yochanan Altman (U of North London): Intergroup/cultural influences on
knowledge and cognitive skill development.
� Benson Honig (Wilfrid Laurier U): Cultural values and organizational
socialization.
� Stacey Blake-Beard (Simmons School of Management): Summarize
research/theories on diversity and formal mentoring programs and
relationships, especially minority-non-minority and female-male
relationships.
� Yehuda Baruch (U of East Anglia): Mentoring of women, especially for
executive and science carriers; a natural follow-on to Stacey. Also
possibly briefly review issue of mentoring for social skill development.
� Charmine Hartel (Deakin U): Summarize theory/research/practice on
understanding and managing the affective component of diverse mentor/mentee
relations--e.g., could understanding cultural differences in affective
norms, managing intra-pair affect toward effective performance.
� Gillian Khoo (Windom Intl., LLC): A discussion of coaching of foreign
national executives who either work in the U.S. for foreign companies, or
work for U.S. companies.
o Exercise/discussion session.
� Jacob Eisenberg (U College Dublin): Discussion and integration of
presentations using a framework combining social identity elements with a
multiple identity model.
- General Discussion with panellists and audience.
Best wishes and thank you for your attention,
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Jacob Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Department of Business Administration,
Quinn School of Business,
University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4,
Ireland
Tel: +353-1-716 4774
Fax: +353-1-716 4762
Email:
Jacob.eisenberg@ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/busadmin/