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The first annual Critical Management Studies Interest Group Post-Doctoral Consortium will be held at the 2004 <st1:place><st1:placetype>Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Management Meetings</st1:placename></st1:place> on Saturday, August 7. The consortium will consist of four sessions. Each session will be limited to thirty participants. Pre-registration is encouraged but not required. All <st1:place><st1:placetype>Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Management</st1:placename></st1:place> members - both junior and senior - are invited to participate. To pre-register, please contact Bill Kaghan at <st1:personname>wkaghan@msn.com</st1:personname>.
Below is a list of the four sessions and the facilitators for each session. An overview of the purpose and format of the consortium follows:
Session 1: (<st1:time hour="9" minute="0">9:00 - 10:30 A.M.</st1:time>)
Engaging Academic and Non-Academic Audiences with Critical Management
Research
Co-Sponsoring Divisions: OMT, Management History
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Facilitators:
Anne Huff: <st1:place><st1:placename>London</st1:placename> <st1:placename>Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Donald Palmer: <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>California</st1:placename></st1:place> - <st1:city><st1:place>Davis</st1:place></st1:city>
Nelson Phillips: <st1:place><st1:placename>Cambridge</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Ralph Stablein: <st1:place><st1:placename>Massey</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
<st1:personname>Patricia Sikora</st1:personname>: Sikora Associates
Session 2: (<st1:time hour="10" minute="45">10:45 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.</st1:time>)
Translating Critical Perspectives into Practice
Co-Sponsoring Divisions: SIM, ONE, MED
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Facilitators:
Steve Linstead: <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Durham</st1:placename></st1:place>
Rick Delbridge: <st1:place><st1:placename>Cardiff</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
David Jacobs: <st1:place><st1:placename>Hood</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>College</st1:placetype></st1:place>
<st1:personname>Diana Sharpe</st1:personname>: <st1:place><st1:placename>Monmouth</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Tony LeTrent-Jones: Learning, Development & Action Resources
for Mindful Leadership & Practice
Session 3: (<st1:time hour="13" minute="30">1:30 - 3:00 P.M.</st1:time>)
Social Activism, Civic Engagement, and Critical Management Studies
Co-Sponsoring Divisions: OMT, GDO, ONE
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Facilitators:
David Boje: <st1:place><st1:placename>New Mexico</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Laurie Dipadova-Stocks: <st1:place><st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Lynne Andersson: <st1:place><st1:placetype>Temple</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Kate Kearins: <st1:place><st1:placename>Auckland</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Technology
Bill Kaghan: <st1:place><st1:placename>Touro</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place> International
Session 4: (<st1:time hour="15" minute="0">3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.</st1:time>)
Critical Careers and Career in Critique:
Developing Critical Identities and Modes of Professional Engagement
Co-Sponsoring Divisions: Careers
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Facilitators:
Stewart Clegg: <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Technology</st1:placename></st1:place> - <st1:city><st1:place>Sydney</st1:place></st1:city>
Maria Tonelli: EAESP-FGV (<st1:country-region><st1:place>Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region>)
Ann Cunliffe: <st1:place><st1:placename>California</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place> - <st1:city><st1:place>Hayward</st1:place></st1:city>
Bobby Bannerjee: <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>South Australia</st1:placename></st1:place>
Jose Cordoba: <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Hull</st1:placename></st1:place>
"Post-Doctoral" Consortium Overview
The purpose of "Post-Doctoral" Consortium is to 1) promote networking among the members of the Critical Management Studies Interest Group and members of other divisions of the <st1:place><st1:placetype>Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Management</st1:placename></st1:place> and 2) discuss issues of broad interest to "constructive deviants" or "tempered radicals" that have not been widely addressed within previous <st1:place><st1:placetype>Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Management</st1:placename></st1:place> forums. We have chosen the label, "post-doctoral consortium" deliberately and view the label as <st1:personname>support</st1:personname>ing two complementary but distinct interpretations. The first interpretation is "event-based." It assumes that participants have, in some sense, moved past the apprenticeship stage that being a student (doctoral or otherwise) represents, have moved on to a career as a "certified" researcher, teacher/instructor, consultant, administrator or similar professional position, and are interested in networking with others at a similar stage of their careers. This interpretation is a deliberate contrast to the "junior faculty" consortia sponsored by a number of other Academy of Management Divisions whose primary purpose is to provide a chance for assistant professors in a tenure-track position to network with each other and to receive some mentoring from senior faculty on strategies for succeeding in the tenure quest. We view this symposium as promoting a process of lifelong learning and development grounded in self-reflection and dialogue. The second interpretation of "post-doctoral" is epistemological and is meant to question the centrality of the Ph.D degree as a badge of certified management knowledge. In this sense, it is meant to highlight the fact that a Ph.D degree indicates a mastery of a formalized body of knowledge that may or may not be actionable in everyday work settings. We hope that this consortium will serve as a springboard to encourage greater "constructive deviance" and "tempered radicalism" both with the <st1:place><st1:placetype>Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Management</st1:placename></st1:place> and more broadly among management communities.
Consortium Schedule and Format
Each session is structured as a stand-alone Professional Development Workshop. However, each of these sessions has a common format (described below) and will be scheduled so that people can easily attend all four sessions.
Consortium participants have the choice of participating in just a single session, several sessions, or all the sessions.
In each session, there would be no explicit "juniors" and "seniors", "mentors" and "mentees." There would only be facilitators and participants.
Common Session Format
Each session will be structured around a couple of common themes and discuss two to four pre-determined questions relevant to each theme.
People will be split into groups of four to six participants and one facilitator.
We are committed to avoiding "talking heads" sessions in which experts lecture participants on the session topics. Rather the primary purpose is to have facilitators help the group as they develop a range of answers through collective discussion.
In keeping with the spirit of the second interpretation of the "post-doctoral consortium", facilitators and participants do not have to have a Ph.D or be employed in a tenured or tenure track position.
Anyone who has significant insight into the session topic and can help promote lifelong learning for participants is qualified to be a session facilitator.
Facilitators would have some level of experience dealing with issues in a session. Participants could have a great deal of experience or very little experience dealing with the issues discussed in a session. The goal of each session would be on promoting self-reflection, lifelong learning, and productive networking. The charge of the facilitator would be to insure that both experienced and less experienced participants benefit from the session.