From: MED05 [mailto:
med05@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu]
If the spirit moves you. Please join us in a co-sponsored Social
Issues in Management (SIM)/Organizational Development and Change (ODC)
Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management meeting
in New Orleans
Topic: "Stakeholder Dialogue and Workplace Spirituality: Seeking a
Higher Level of Actionable Knowledge"
Time: Saturday, August 7, 2004, from 1-3 PM
Place: New Orleans Marriott Preservation Hall Studio 3 (2nd Floor)
Panelists:
. Jerry Calton, University of Hawaii-Hilo
. Robert Giacalone, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
. Steve Payne, Georgia College and State University
. Sandra Waddock, Boston College
Synopsis: Multi-Stakeholder Learning Dialogue and Spirituality in the
Workplace are two related challenges to the old management and
organization paradigm, the latter based on the assumption of unitary
organizational purpose, instrumental/linear rationality, and a focus on
measuring and ordering facts to control individual and organizational
outcomes. This leads (we argue) to a fragmentation of potentially
higher meanings and, hence, a failure to arrive at "actionable
knowledge" relevant to conditions of complexity, contested, plural
perspectives, and chaotic, non-linear change. The alternative multi-
stakeholder dialogue and spirituality in the workplace approaches have
an integrative, holistic focus on building multilateral relationships
and on achieving a more connected, even transcendent, appreciation of
how all stakeholders caught up in a messy problem domain must learn how
to talk, listen, and work together to achieve meaningful action.
The multi-stakeholder learning dialogue and spirituality in the
workplace approaches to developing a "group mind" or a "spiritual
rationality" have emerged separately from the research and consulting
work of SIM and ODC scholars and consultants. This workshop will
provide an opportunity for interested members of these overlapping
communities of inquiry to come together and learn from each other.
Please come and participate!
Contrary to the program listing, pre-registration is not required.
However, if the panelists know who is planning to attend, they can
prepare their opening remarks accordingly. Please contact Jerry Calton
at
calton@hawaii.edu if you have questions about this session.
J. B. (Ben) Arbaugh, Ph.D.
2003-04 Program Chair Elect, MED Division
Academy of Management
and Curwood Inc. Endowed Professor
College of Business Administration
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
e-mail:
arbaugh@uwosh.edu Phone: (920) 424-7189
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