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PDW ANNONCEMENT

  • 1.  PDW ANNONCEMENT

    Posted 06-09-2008 13:41

    The Questions We Ask....About Our Selves, Our Lives, and Our Passions

    Incorporating our avocational interests into our academic lives

     

    A Professional Development Workshop

    2008 Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA

     

    Sunday, August 20, 2008

    10am-12pm

    Hilton Anaheim, Redondo

     

    Overview

     

     This interactive workshop will explore the role of passion in career choice and enactment.   Participants are invited to explore the notion of avocational passion from not only a theoretical perspective, but through practical aspects of their own careers as well. In this regard, this PDW will provide the opportunity for individuals from various research fields to reflect upon the role that passions and avocations play in organizations, individuals, and academia.

     

    In doing so, we question how individuals are likely to incorporate diverse work and non-work related interests into passionate and inspiring careers. Can and do individuals craft their jobs in a manner that enables them to tap into their avocational passions? What processes "call" an individual into endeavors such as social entrepreneurship or environmental careers?  How might this affect prevailing conceptualizations of career success?

     

    Moreover, might there be opportunities for our avocational interests to be integrated into our various roles in research, teaching, and academic service? Through this, participants can offer thoughts and opinions rooted not only within career theory, but in personal experience as well. As such, we seek participants from a variety of research streams and organizational levels to offer their thoughts and experiences in order to foster a dialogue that may both inform career theory as well as have practical application to our personal career experiences in academia.

     

    Additionally, it presents an opportunity to share individual passions and interests, thereby fostering the progression of research collaboration and possible mentoring relationships within and across research streams. As such, this workshop provides a highly interactive setting which enables the cultivation of both personal and professional development for all participants.

     

    Incubator: 

    • Passion, Avocation, and Boundaryless Careers
      • How does involvement in avocational interests impact one's career success?
      • Can a boundaryless perspective facilitate the incorporation of avocational passion in academic careers?
    • The Role of Passion in Career Decisions
      • How can individuals and organizations harness passion in productive ways to enrich work experiences and strengthen commitment?
      • What are the applicable macro, meso, and micro-level decisions that lead to passionate academic careers?
    • Working for the Greater Good
      • What role do individual factors play in the social entrepreneur's career decision making process?
      • Can/should we participate in or foster the development of social entrepreneurship at the student and/or university level?

     

    Participants:

    ·         S. Nihal Colakoglu, Norfolk State University

    ·         Marco S. DiRenzo, Drexel University

    ·         Kimberly A. Eddleston, Northeastern University

    ·         C. Melissa Fender, Drexel University

    ·         Veronica M. Godshalk, University of South Carolina Beaufort

    ·         Barrie E. Litzky, Penn State Great Valley

    ·         Barbara A. Ribbens, Western Illinois University

    • Tyra Shao, Drexel University
    • Christy H. Weer, Radford University

     

    This PDW is open to all and pre-registration is not required; however, RSVPs are welcomed.  For further information, please contact either of the co-organizers:

     

    Marco S. DiRenzo                                             Barrie Litzky                                       

    Drexel University                                             Penn State-Great Valley                              

    E-mail:msd49@drexel.edu                          E-mail:bxl26@gv.psu.edu

                   

     

    Christy Weer

    Radford University

    E-mail: cweer@radford.edu

     

    Hope to see you there!

     

     

    Barrie E. Litzky, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor Management and Organization

    David and Marjorie Rosenberg Professor for Innovation and Change

    The Pennsylvania State University

    Great Valley School of Graduate and Professional Studies

    30 E. Swedesford Road

    Malvern, PA 19355

    610-725-5286 (p)

    610-725-5224 (f)

    barrielitzky@psu.edu

    http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/b/x/bxl26/ 

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