Dear Management Colleagues -
Just to let you know the next in the series of OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators webinars will be held on Friday, 1 May, from 11:00 - 12:00 when Jim Clawson raises questions about "The Overrated Concept of Corporate Character."
If you have the time, please join us. Registration is athttp://www.obtc.org/webinars and a copy of the announcement also is enclosed.
OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators
Announces the sixth in its ongoing series of professional development
webinars
The Overrated Concept of Corporate Character
A live, interactive video conversation with
James G.S. Clawson
Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration
Darden School of Business
University of Virginia
Friday, 1 May 2009
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT
UTC/GMT -4
Sign up for this free webinar at: http://www.obtc.org/webinars We will reserve your space and send you a reminder e-mail a few days before the session.
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Acknowledging that his theme may be controversial, Jim Clawson also promises to lead a provocative and thoughtful exchange of ideas. He writes, "Early economists (Locke and Smith) touted the importance of having men of high moral character in order to establish capitalism. Yet the rise of labor unions would suggest that employees did not feel well taken care of. Here's my premise: when anyone, anyone, says "trust me" you should run for the hills. The only thing that has turned out to be trustworthy is transparency and oversight. We repealed the various conditions of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999-apparently believing that the basic human nature that led to the collapse in 1929 was no longer likely to surface. We should stop teaching character in business schools or searching for it in our efforts to invest in Human Capital and focus on transparency and oversight instead. If you can't show transparently what you're doing, what ARE you doing? Do you have any oversight that constrains your behavior? I'd say that the desire to hide the "real deal" and to serve self before others has contributed to more financial, organizational and societal pain than anything else. I've come to conclude that the "deal on the table" is not the real deal. How can we prepare our students for this reality instead of teaching them an idealistic world in which trust, caring, respect, and concern for the well being of all are the central components?" Please join with us as we explore such compelling questions with him.
Jim Clawson is the Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Excerpted from his Darden Biography, Jim most recently has published Level Three Leadership 4th ed, Powered by Feel: how individuals, teams, and companies excel (with Doug Newburg), and Balancing your Life: Executives Lessons for Work, Family and Self in 2008 and 2009. He teaches in the MBA and doctoral programs and leads and participates in various Executive Education programs. His research addresses issues of leadership, career management, management development, and mentoring and he has consulted with large and very large corporations in various parts of the globe. For more information about this very thoughtful and creative educator, please follow this link -.http://www.darden.virginia.edu/html/direc_detail.aspx?styleid=2&id=4271.
OBTS Webinar Series connects prominent management scholars with colleagues in a technology-mediated format that can serve many purposes. Not only will we learn more about these scholars' work and have the opportunity to discuss issues, we also may make new connections among our colleagues that can lead to future study groups, research initiatives and other professional development activities. In planning the series, we thought that not only learning more about what people do would be important but also how they view the challenges for the future. We are very pleased that Jim Clawson will be working with us. And conversations can continue at OBTC 2009 at The College of Charleston where he will be recognized as the 2009 winner of the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award.
We look forward to you joining us on Friday, May 1 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Again, please sign up at: http://www.obtc.org/webinars
Webinar Series Coordinator Joan Weiner, weinerjl@drexel.edu, 215 895-1797.
Webinar Moderator David Fearon, fearon@ccsu.edu, 860 832 3280.
The OBTS webinar connection is co-sponsored by Drexel University's Lebow College of Business, Center for Teaching Excellence.