The Leadership & Management Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa 2008 conference, to be held in <st1:place><st1:city>
Accra</st1:city>
, <st1:country-region>
Ghana</st1:country-region></st1:place>
, 7-9 July 2008, will feature two noted African studies academics, Prof. Stella Nkomo and Prof. Terence Jackson, as keynote speakers. Conference paper submissions are being accepted, and information is available at http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/LMSSSA2008.html
-Prof Stella Nkomo, Bateman Professor of Business Leadership at the University of <st1:place><st1:placename>
South Africa</st1:placename>
<st1:placename>
Graduate</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
of Business Leadership, Pretoria
http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=1033
-Prof Terence Jackson, Business & Management Group, <st1:place><st1:placename>
Middlesex</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
University</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename>
Business</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
, London
http://mubs.mdx.ac.uk/Staff/Personal_pages/Terence1/index.htm
Prof. Stella M. Nkomo is a professor of business leadership at the <st1:place><st1:placetype>
University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename>
South Africa</st1:placename></st1:place>
s Graduate School of Business Leadership. Before joining her husband in <st1:country-region><st1:place>
South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>
she was the head of the Department of Management at the <st1:place><st1:placetype>
University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename>
North Carolina</st1:placename></st1:place>
in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>
United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
. She holds a PhD in business administration from the <st1:place><st1:placetype>
University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename>
Massachusetts</st1:placename></st1:place>
. Prof. Nkomo is a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and <st1:place><st1:placename>
Harvard</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
. Her nationally recognized work on race and gender in organizations, managing diversity, leading change, and human resource management appears in numerous journals, edited volumes, and magazines.
Prof. Nkomo has made numerous presentations to both academic and practitioner audiences both in <st1:country-region><st1:place>
South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and abroad. She is or has served on the editorial board of several management journals. Prof Nkomo is the author of three books including the critically acclaimed Harvard Business School Press book, Our <st1:street><st1:address>
Separate Ways</st1:address></st1:street>
: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity.
She is a former member of the executive board of the Human Resource Management Division of the <st1:place><st1:placetype>
Academy</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename>
Management</st1:placename></st1:place>
and chair of the Women in Management Division. Most recently, she completed a term as a member of the Board of Governors of the <st1:place><st1:placetype>
Academy</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename>
Management</st1:placename></st1:place>
and the Center for Creative Leadership. Prof Nkomo is listed in the Who's Who in the Managerial Sciences. She is the recipient of many honors. During her tenure at the <st1:place><st1:placetype>
University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename>
North Carolina</st1:placename></st1:place>
, she received the Belk College of Business Research Excellence Award and the Bank of America Teaching Excellence Award. At the UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership, she has received the Researcher of the Year award in 2001 and 2004.
Prof Terrence Jackson holds a bachelors degree in Social Anthropology (University of Wales, Swansea, 1974), a masters in Education (University of Keele, UK, 1983), and a PhD in Management Psychology (Henley Management College/Brunel University, UK, 1993). He is Director of the Centre for Cross Cultural Management Research at <st1:place><st1:placename>
ESCP-EAP</st1:placename>
<st1:placename>
European</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
of Management (Oxford-Paris-Berlin-Madrid). He edits, with Dr Zeynep Aycan, the International Journal of Cross Cultural Management (Sage Publications) and his most recent book (his sixth) International HRM: A Cross Cultural Approach has received international pre-publication accolades. He has published numerous articles on cross-cultural management ethics, management learning and management in developing countries in such journals as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, and Asian Pacific Journal of Management.
He has both academic and practical experience. Prior to joining the <st1:place><st1:placename>
European</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
of Management he was Manager, Group Training Consultancy, Personnel Division, National Westminster Bank Group. He has also worked in the UK Civil Service, and in colleges of further education specializing in management training. He has consulted to a number of international organizations including Oxfam, 3Com, ABB and Thomson. He has received funding from, inter alia, the Danish International Development Agency, Paris Chamber of Commerce, British Council, English Speaking Union and Commonwealth Secretariat/UNDP, for his work on cross-cultural management issues in developing countries.
Related key publications and papers include:
-Management and Change in Africa: A Cross-cultural Perspective, <st1:city><st1:place>
London</st1:place></st1:city>
: Routledge, 2004
-Managing Culture and Change in South African Organizations: The Way Forward for <st1:place>
Africa</st1:place>
? With Lynette Louw. <st1:place><st1:placename>
International</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place>
of African Business and Development International Conference: Expanding the Horizons of African Business and Development. 3-6 April 2002, <st1:place><st1:city>
Port Elizabeth</st1:city>
, <st1:country-region>
South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>
.
-Management in <st1:place>
Africa</st1:place>
: Developing a Cross-cultural Research Agenda, <st1:place><st1:placename>
International</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place>
of African Business and Development International Conference: The Global Challenge of African Business and Economic Development in the New Millennium, <st1:place><st1:city>
Atlantic City</st1:city>
, <st1:state>
New Jersey</st1:state>
, <st1:country-region>
USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<st1:date month="4" day="11" year="2000">
April 11-14, 2000</st1:date>
.
-Managing Change in <st1:country-region><st1:place>
South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>
: People and Organizations, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1999, 10(2).
Romie F. Littrell, BA, MBA,PhD, FIAIR, An fánaí fiáin
AUT Business School N.Z.,
romie.littrell@aut.ac.nzhttp://www.romielittrellpubs.homestead.com/http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/Facilitator, Leadership & Management in Sub-Sahara Africa Conferences
Contents copyright Romie F. Littrell
Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows.
Try it now. ************************************** This message is from ENTREP which is sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Please do not post messages with attached files. Commercial messages or spammed messages are not allowed on the list. The use of auto-responder "out-of-office" messages may also lead to your removal from the list. You can manage your subscription options, including joining or leaving the list here:
http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=entrep&A=1 If you have questions or need help, please contact Dr. John Bunch
jbunch@benedictine.edu. Ventures HO!