MED CALL FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The Management Education and Development Division invites proposals for
professional development workshops to be held August 6-8, 1999 at the 59th
Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management at Chicago's Hyatt
Regency.
The 1999 conference theme "Change and Development
Journeys into a Pluralistic World" emphasizes the importance of examining
how management education and development efforts can prepare students and
practitioners to accommodate, respect and negotiate change and development
associated with organizational innovations, transformations and
restructuring; career changes and transformations; functioning within
pluralistic work settings characterized by diversity of employees, work
cultures, and knowledge-bases; coping with complex, non-linear and dynamic
processes, and helping mutually dependent groups accommodate and learn
from each other.
Professional development workshops are intended for academy members to
interact informally, innovatively and actively in mutually rewarding
learning experiences. The focus should be on sharing knowledge and
experience in a way that is both informative and engaging to workshop
participants. Use your imagination and creativity to design a workshop
experience that participants will talk about long after the conclusion of
your workshop session. Formats for such workshops are limitless. Examples
include debates on core issues, demonstrations of practice, audience
participation role plays, state-of-the art discussions, local (Chicago)
tours or site visits to obtain "live case experience". Think
of the kind of workshop session you've always wanted to attend yourself
and make it a reality.
Workshops may be focused upon teaching, professional development and
academic theory or research relevant to the domain of the Management
Education and Development Division, which includes the organization (class
room, college, university or more macro level) and delivery of management
education (academic credit) or management development (non-credit
instruction); effective and innovative instructional methods or
technology; application of learning theories; and evaluation of
management education and development techniques.
Workshops will be selected based upon their likely contribution to and fit
with the overall workshop pre-conference program. Please pay careful
attention to the domain of MED and this year's conference theme.
Notifications of workshop proposal acceptances will be
emailed to each workshop's organizer during the week of November
30-December 4, 1998.
Please submit by November 15, 1998 a brief proposal containing the
following:
1. Workshop Title:
2. Workshop Objectives and Relation of Workshop to Conference Theme
3. Workshop Design or Sequence of Activities
4. Workshop Organizer and Primary Contact: name, title,
university/employer affiliation and email/phone/fax
5.Other Workshop Participants: identity (name, title, university/employer
affiliation and email) and workshop role ( presenter, panel
member, discussant, facilitator, moderator)
6. Audio Visuals Required: (overhead projector, screen and flip-chart with
marker are provided free. Other equipment, especially computer -based
hardware and data projection displays, are very expensive to rent, and you
are strongly advised to provide as much of your own hardware as
practical).
7.Room Requirements: room size (number of expected or desired attendees);
seating configuration (Theater style, U shaped, round table) and head
table (if yes, how many people at head table?)
8.Pre-Registration Requirement: if yes, please indicate special
instructions for pre-registration regarding eligibility requirements, how
to register, and deadlines. Also, is pre-registration mandatory or
optional?
9.Proposed Length of Workshop: Typical workshops are ninety minutes.
Longer duration or technology intensive and expensive workshops should
seek out a second division for co-sponsorship and cost-sharing for
audio-visual and other incidental programming expenses.
10. Food Catering: Not generally provided for ninety minute workshops.
Please mail, email or fax your proposal to Professor Robert J. DeFillippi,
Suffolk University, Sawyer School of Management, 8 Ashburton Place,
Boston, MA 02108-2770 FAX=617-573-8345/EMAIL=
rdefilli@suffolk.edu or
rdefilli@hotmail.com Please email to confirm that you have submitted a
proposal or to schedule a phone conversation (617-573-8243).