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With the usual apologies for cross-postings, here is the call for proposals for the PDW sessions at the 2008 Academy of Management meeting in Anaheim, CA. I've both inserted the text in this message below (for the convenience of those wishing to avoid opening attachments), and attached the same copy as a pdf. Please note that the Academy requires online submissions this year for the first time, but that proposal authors should contact me directly as well. The deadline is November 15, but workshops are negotiated with other Divisions on an ongoing basis, starting now. Thus prospective proposal authors should try to start the process as early as possible. Members of the Academy will also receive a copy of this call directly from the Academy of Management within the next couple of weeks.

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Barry M. Mitnick, Ph.D.
Professor of Business Administration and of Public and International Affairs
Katz Graduate School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
261 Mervis Hall
Pittsburgh, PA  15260

Tel.: 412 648-1555
Fax: 412 648-1693

Email: mitnick@katz.pitt.edu

To SIM members,

With apologies for cross postings.  You are all invited to participate in the biennial OXSVEB Conference.  Below is the Call for Papers and Meeting Announcement.  We look forward to your participation.

 

Sincerely,

 

Bill Naumes

 

William Naumes, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

Whittemore School of Business and Economics

University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH 03824

bill.naumes@unh.edu

603-862-2618 (O)

603-862-3383 (FAX)

 

 

8^th International Conference on Social Values in Education and Business

(OXSVEB)

January 8, 9, 10, 2008  Miami, Florida

Sponsored by OXSVEB

 University of Oxford, England

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Theme:

 

Beatitude Past Utterance: Balancing Life, Career, Values and Ethics

 

 

The universal cry for balance is growing louder and louder as more and more individuals and organizations are becoming concerned about the increasing number of broken families, relationships, and ethically compromised organizations that are catching our attention in the News. Life in the 21^st century calls for trade-offs between work and family, living standards and the environment, and between personal, political and social values.

 

We are seeking broad-based papers which explore the ethical, personal and organizational conflicts which arise from this lack of a balanced life. Negotiating the emerging environment requires new skills and educational approaches as well as reconfiguring our value system to be consistent with the "good life" that we continually seek.  Papers are invited which focus on global, national, sectarian, corporate, psychological and educational arenas in which these concerns are played out.

 

Some concrete concerns include:

·         Searching for meaning of life itself: Goals, values, work

·         Work: Its rewards, ethics, values in the overall picture

·         Are the values of the family and work the same?  Should they be the same?

·         Organizational challenges and family/work boundaries

·         Seeking goodness and truth in good times vs. in bad times

·         Caring for others: those like ourselves vs. those who are different

·         Forgiveness: Why, from and for whom, how, when?

·         Peacefulness: What do we think that it is, how do we value it and aim towards it?

·         War and peace: Effects on our lives, work, values, health (stress, anxiety, etc.)

·         Hope and faith in a better tomorrow: Impact on balancing lives, work, and personal values

·         Transcendence: Are we utterly alone, or does something/someone outside ourselves influence our lives, work, values?

·         Spirituality: What is it, can all experience it, how does it change our lives, work, values?

·         Sharing resources vs. keeping it all for ourselves: Effects on our lives, work, values

·         Protecting our environment: Are we truly part of the universe, no less than the stars and the plants?

·         Pride in established cultural, ethnical, and gendered identities: What does this do in terms of our lives, work, and values?

·         Education: How much, what kind, and for whom, and its relation to our lives, work and values 

 

All papers are double-blind reviewed for acceptance

and will be published in Volume 12 of the ongoing series on Social Values published by

Oxford University Centre for the Study of Values in Education and Business

To facilitate debate and exchange of views, we intend to accommodate a greater and more exciting variety of presentation styles, including paper sessions, workshops, and plenary sessions and working paper sessions.

 

CONFERENCE COORDINATORS:

Samuel M. Natale, D.Phil. (Oxon)         William Naumes, Ph.D.                      Geoff Hayward, D.Phil. (Oxon)

Conference Executive Director             Director, USA                                     Director, UK

 

CONFERENCE EVENTS:

Refreshment: Breakfast, lunch and tea/coffee will be served daily at the Conference Site.  Reception and Banquet sites to be announced.

By Popular request: Each day will feature an unstructured hour of open discussion among conference colleagues

Accommodations: A full listing of available hotels with information and websites will be mailed to participants upon receipt of registration fee.

 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

All papers will be anonymously reviewed by two referees and should be submitted to:

Dr. Samuel M. Natale

School of Business

Adelphi University

Garden City NY 11530

Email: Natale3@adelphi.edu

 

The deadline for submission is October 20, 2007

Three (3) copies of each paper should be submitted. One copy should have the paper title in the top left hand corner, and the name, mailing address and e-mail of the presenter(s) in the top right –hand corner of the first sheet . The other two sheets should have only the title of the paper on the first sheet.

The edited copy of the volume of the presentations may be purchased on publication.

Non- refundable fee of US $ 495 entitles the participants to the following benefits:

·         Conference program.

·         Coffee, tea, breakfast and lunch at the Conference and Opening Reception and Conference Banquet

No partial registrations are allowed, and participants are encouraged to arrange for accommodations well in advance as space in Miami during high season is at a premium. Please send checks to:

Dr. S. Natale, OXSVEB

School of Business

Adelphi University

Garden City NY 11530 USA

 

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