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*Call for Program Submissions*

Cultural Diversity and Transformational Societies Track

Academy of Management Africa Conference

January 7-10, 2013 / Johannesburg, South Africa

Submissions Deadline: May 15, 2012 (5:00PM EDT)

The need to understand cultural diversity within and outside an organization's ever changing boundaries is a hallmark of globalization. With its difficult history of colonial and racial oppression, the management of diversity is all the more important in a place like Africa. This conference track invites papers and presentations that broadly address the nature and effects of cultural diversity on individuals, groups, and organizations. Those interested in contributing a paper or a symposium proposal to this track might examine such questions as:

·         What can the Global South teach us about valuing and managing diversity?

·         How do organizations learn to develop inclusiveness across many kinds of differences?

·         How can organizations manage the tensions between maintaining local identities while embracing cultural diversity from a global perspective?

·         Are there unique cultural diversity challenges in emerging markets? What cultural diversity challenges arise when emerging market nations do business with one another?

·         What are the challenges in managing multiple diversities (e.g. cultural diversity, gender diversity, geographical diversity)?

·         How might indigenous approaches to questions of management and organizations be leveraged to provide a more expansive understanding of the effects of cultural diversity on individuals and groups?

·         How do organizations manage diversity and gender equity from legislative mandates versus voluntary motives?

·         What are some examples of good practices of managing cultural diversity? ...gender diversity?

·         How do individuals, organizations and countries deal with the ignored, silenced, and taboo strands of diversity?

Track 4 – Cultural Diversity and Transformational Societies

African Track Chair: Kurt April, University of Cape Town

Northern Track Chair: Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel University

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"Cultural Diversity and Transformational Societies" is one of four program themes presented at the Academy of Management Africa Conference. The Academy of Management Africa Conference will be held January 7-10, 2013 at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, South Africa. The purpose of this conference is to bring Africa's unique capabilities and needs to the attention of the world's organization and management scholars and at the same time, to provide an opportunity for interested colleagues to collaborate and work on the many interesting theoretical and practical problems presented in Africa.

The Academy of Management is calling for paper, symposium, and workshop submissions pertaining to one of the conference track themes.  Download the call for submissions and learn more about submission guidelines, policies, and procedures at: http://aom.org/africaconference.  The deadline for all program submissions is May 15, 2012.

For more information about the AOM Africa Conference, please visit the conference website: http://aom.org/africaconference or email the program development team at: globalconference@aom.pace.edu