Network of Leadership Scholars
PDW Schedule for Academy of Management
Philadelphia, August 4-5, 2007
Title: Doing Well by Doing Good---the Role of Leadership across Disciplines
and Domains
Short Title: Doing Well and Good through Leadership
As Philadelphia is a place steeped in a rich history of leadership that
seemed to have "anticipated the scholarship we do and the theme of this
year's meetings, " (Academy website), we believe our cross-disciplinary
approach to leadership fits well within this year's meeting theme. As our
proposal will demonstrate, leadership provides a frame that spans every
division of the Academy, and thus our PDW workshops serve to bring scholars
together that otherwise would not be engaging in dialogue.
The content of our proposed sessions as well as the featured facilitators
and speakers has been carefully designed to continuously reinforce the core
message of the meeting and the Network of leadership scholars---that there
are many frames for considering organizations and their effectiveness and
that leadership is a vehicle for that enhanced, multifaceted consideration.
By engaging these multifaceted, broadened perspectives, scholarly leadership
research can better assist organizations and our field in doing well by
doing good.
Background: Leadership researchers and scholars may be found across many
disciplines and interest groups. The management discipline is particularly
well-suited to bring together many disciplines to create a forum for better
understanding of this increasingly important subject. The purpose of this
proposed PDW is to integrate leadership thought and action, with the intent
of fostering dialogue throughout the participants. The PDW will bring
together prominent scholars from a wide variety of fields to discuss
leadership in the public domain, international leadership, cognitive,
emotional, spiritual, and self-concepts factors of leadership, paradigm
diversity in defining and measuring leadership, and teaching leadership.
Additionally, we will examine where the field has been and avenues for the
future through the eyes of Dr. Robert House, this year's eminent scholar.
From this discussion, we will identify research streams and agendas for
pushing the current boundaries of leadership research, thereby advancing
theory and practice.
About the PDW and Network of Leadership Scholars.
The PDW is proposed by the Network of Leadership Scholars, a new virtual
organizing framework that was formalized by the Academy Board of Governors
in April, 2005. This organizing structure provides a venue for building
community across the Academy-- especially among members who may not have
interacted previously - and for encouraging greater dialogue and
interconnectivity. The Network of Leadership Scholars has been approved to
work with the divisions to generate sponsorship for innovative
interdisciplinary discussions across the Academy. The sessions we propose
have been prepared by members of the Network and are designed in accordance
with the mission of creating collaborations among divisions on the topic of
leadership.
General Information
In all of these sessions, audience members will be inspired and energized to
examine leadership from an interdisciplinary and action-oriented perspective
to consider how doing good can help organizations do well. After
participants share their very brief overviews of their own views and
experiences, the sessions will be interactive and dialogue-based. The goal
will be to stimulate the production of new ideas, research agendas, and
relationships among Academy members from a wide range of divisions. After
each session, ideas key areas of future research will be collected, and the
discussions will continue on LDRNET.
9:00-11:20 am Saturday, August 4th Convention Center, Room 105 B
How can Leadership be Taught? Approaches, Methods, Experiences
"Teaching and Training Leadership" will bring together scholars who excel at
the art of teaching leadership. Specifically, Dr. Jay Conger (Clarmont
McKenna) will share his award winning techniques for teaching leadership to
executives. Dr. Joanne Ciulla (Jepson School of Leadership, University of
Richmond) will share her thoughts on pedagogy of teaching leadership for
degree programs versus short programs. Also, Dr. Scott Snook will share his
longitudinal research and his experiences teaching Harvard MBAs
transformational leadership, and finally, Dr. William Torbort (Boston
College) will demonstrate the theory and practice of "developmental action
inquiry." Dr. Claudia Peus (MIT) will facilitate this exciting and
interactive session.
9:30-11:20 am Saturday, August 4th: Convention Center, Room 113C
A Dialogue on Paradigm Diversity in Defining and Measuring Leadership
The second session a cutting-edge, thought-provoking session exploring the
diversity in approaching leadership from different philosophies, entitled
"Paradigm Diversity in Defining and Measuring Leadership" will be offered.
As theories that predominated much of leadership research in the 1990s
(e.g., transformational leadership, leader-member exchange) are beginning to
reach stages of maturity, new opportunities are arising to push the field to
explore different ways of defining and measuring leadership. This PDW will
bring together prominent scholars from a variety of paradigmatic and
methodological perspectives (e.g., social constructionism, constructivist,
cognitive, and systemic views) and create a "thinking space" where new kinds
of questions can be asked, and new kinds of possible futures for leadership
can be articulated and debated. The workshop will consist of dialogue and
(if appropriate) breakout groups. Pre-readings for this workshop, e.g.,
information about the different paradigmatic perspectives, representative
articles from the panelists, and information about leading methodological
approaches reflecting the different paradigms, will be posted prior to the
meeting on the Network of Leadership Scholars web page at:
http://groups.aomonline.org/lig/leader.html.
11:30-1:20 pm Saturday, August 4th. Convention Center, 113 C
Decisions, decisions: The decisions that leaders make and how they go about
making them.
"Decision Making and Leadership" entitled "Decisions, decisions: the
decisions that leaders make and how they go about making them" will bring
together top decision making scholars from various disciplines to discuss
how decision making is affected by a variety of factors. Dr. Michael
Mumford (University of Oklahoma) will discuss planning and strategic
decision-making. Dr. Neil Ashkanasy (University of Queensland) will discuss
how emotions impact the decision making process, and Dr. Louis Fry (Tarelton
State University) will share his thoughts on spirituality and the decision
making process. Dr. Andrew McLean will discuss his work with Bill George and
the developmental aspects of executive decision-making. Concluding these
short presentations will be Dr. Craig Pierce, who will discuss his work on
entrepreneurs and their decision-making process using shared leadership.
Dr. Roni Reiter-Palmon (University of Nebraska) will facilitate the session
and challenge the workshop participants to think about the ways in which
decision-making is impacted by emotions, planning, and spirituality.
11:30-1:20 pm Saturday, August 4th Convention Center, 105 B
Changing Places: How Place Shapes our Understanding of Leadership and
Culture
"International Perspectives" will bring together scholars from different
cultures to discuss how place shapes our understanding of leadership and
culture, and specifically our research agendas. It will provide a rare
opportunity to hear from and talk with cross-cultural leadership researchers
who themselves have crossed cultures in their own lives.
Dr. Jeffrey Kennedy will discuss how living in New Zealand and Singapore has
affected his work on forbearance and culturally inappropriate behaviors.
Dr. Ann Cunliffe (University of New Mexico) and Dr. Eric Guthey (The
Copenhagen Business School) will discuss how their moves have shaped and
enriched their research and teaching agendas. Dr. Matthew Eriksen will also
present. Dr. Brad Jackson (the University of Auckland) and Dr. Deanne den
Hartog (Universitet van Amsterdam Business School) will co-facilitate this
discussion and frame a number of integrative and interactive questions for
all session participants to consider.
1:30-3:20 pm Saturday, August 4th. Convention Center, 105 B
Macro and Micro Perspectives on Leadership and Identity Theory
"Identity and Leadership" will discuss cutting edge issues relative to
leadership and its relationship to individual and organizational identities.
In this session, Dr. Robert Lord (University of Akron) will discuss follower
identities from a follower-centered view of leadership. Dr. Mary Jo Hatch
(University of Virginia) will share her views of identities as dynamic
intersections of many aspects of the organization and its stakeholders. Dr.
Mary Ann Glynn (Boston College) will discuss micro level cognitive processes
of identity, and Dr. Kimberly Jaussi (Binghamton University) will discuss
personal identity and its influence with diversity and teams and also on
creativity and leadership. Dr. Ronald Humphrey (Virginia Commonwealth
University) will facilitate the panel as well as discussing the role of
empathy as a vehicle for leaders to develop common identities among their
followers.
1:30-4:00 pm Saturday, August 4th. Convention Center, 113 C
Developing Global Leaders: Leading Practices in Adult Education
A world-class group of experts in developing executives for global
leadership roles will share their research and their approaches to
developing a global mindset and competencies in the session, "Developing
Global Leaders." Dr. Schon Beechler (Duke Corporate Education) will frame
the session with an explanation of global leadership. Dr. Mansour Javidan
(The Garvin School of International Management at Thunderbird) will discuss
a global mindset, followed by Dr. Joyce Osland (San Jose State University),
who will present her research on expert global leaders. Dr. Stewart Black
(Insead) will discuss competencies for leadership in Asian contexts, and Dr.
Hal Gregerson (Insead) will share his views on the role of inquisitiveness
for global leadership. Finally, Dr. Allan Bird (International Business
Institute, University of Missouri-St. Louis), will discuss his work
developing the Global Competencies Inventory, an instrument designed to
assess global leadership competencies. Participants will be asked to
pre-register for this session and this session will have a roundtable
discussion format after the presentations.
9:30-11:20 am Sunday, August 5th, Convention Center, 104 A
Addressing public issues: Perspectives on Public Leadership
A session on "Leadership in the Public Domain" will be of particular
interest in a city like Philadelphia, for it will bring scholars
specializing in public leadership together to discuss the social and
collective dimensions of leadership characterizing post-heroic leadership
across the policy context, the community context, and the
interorganizational collaboration arena. Dr. Sonia Ospina and colleagues
from the Research Center for Leadership in Action, New York University will
present their work along with Dr. Barbara Crosby and Dr. John Bryson from
the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.
Dr. Jerry Hunt and Dr. Kim Boal will offer their thoughts on the new light
the work presented in this session brings to traditional leadership
research.
10:00-12:00 am Sunday, August 5th Conventional Center, Room 110 A&B
Eminent Senior Scholars: Expanding the Research Across Cultures
Eminent Scholar Perspective: An important component of this PDW is a session
involving and celebrating a senior scholar from the leadership field, who
will discuss historical and emerging issues in leadership research. The
"Eminent Senior Scholar" session will celebrate the work of Dr. Robert House
(Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) and provide attendees the
opportunity to hear firsthand from Dr. House regarding his views about the
growth of leadership research and its future across multiple domains and
contexts. Dr. Michael Mumford (University of Oklahoma) will facilitate,
giving members of the Academy a rare glimpse inside the mind and memory of
this eminent scholar
This session will provide a "big picture" of the state of the leadership
field and draw from multiple perspectives. Key issues in leadership that
address public concern will be identified.
Network of Leadership Scholars Business Meeting
Sunday, August 5, 5:00-6:00 pm. Convention Center, Room 110 A&B
All are encouraged to attend this business meeting----we'd love to have your
input and thoughts on growing the Network of Leadership Scholars!
RECEPTION!!!! Sunday, August 5, 6-7:30 PM Convention Center, Room 113
Foyer
Sunday night from 6-7:30 p.m., a cocktail hour/reception will be held for
all participants in the various sessions of this PDW. The cocktail
hour/reception will be hosted by The Leadership Quarterly and Elsevier
Publishing.
Kim Jaussi
Associate Professor, Organizational Behavior and Leadership
School of Management, Binghamton University (SUNY)
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
(607) 777-4396
kjaussi@binghamton.edu
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