Dear fellow members of MSR,
Dr. Isabel Riamnoczy and I have proposed to facilitate a PDW at AoM 2011 with MSR as our primary sponsor. The abstract is as follows:
We welcome you to join us at this workshop awaiting approval by MSR.
In the mean time please contact me at shankar.sankaran@uts.edu.au if you want to know more about this workshop and/or keen to co-facilitate or participate in this workshop.
West meets East:
Transcending Leadership Theory across Cultures with Stories at an Open Space Meeting
We invite you to participate in an interactive workshop to explore four Western leadership theories – authentic leadership, servant leadership, spiritual leadership and relational leadership - with stories and narratives from Eastern and Southern cultures to build connections between these traditions. The workshop will be facilitated using a modified Open Space Technology Meeting format (Owen 1997) to facilitate dialogue between participants to explore these connections and move from passion to action. The theme for the open space meeting is leadership research in not-for-profit charitable or church-based organizations in which the two facilitators are deeply involved. The facilitators will briefly introduce the four leadership theories being discussed and provide vignettes from stories from Eastern and Southern leaders that reflect aspects of these theories. They will then describe the Open Space Technology process and its four principles and one law. Participants will then announce discussion topics at the village marketplace that will be created at the workshop. Reflection and dialogue will take place in the open space (a circle of chairs with a space within). Summaries of discussions held at the marketplace will be collected and posted to all participants after the meeting. The workshop will conclude with a list of actions to be followed up. A linked-in group will be set up after the workshop to continue the dialogue that started at the workshop to continue in a wider global space.
Search Terms: Leadership Research; Nonprofit organizations; Spirituality Sustainability
Please contact me at shankar.sankaran@uts.edu.au if you want to contribute to this workshop. You are welcome to bring along stories from your own cultures to add to ours!
Thanks and Regards
Shankar
Dr. Shankar Sankaran PhD PMP
Associate Professor
CORE Researcher: Centre for Management and Organization Studies (CMOS)
Director, Built Environment and Design Management Group (BEDM)
School of the Built Environment
Faculty of Design Architecture and Building
University of Technology Sydney
Research Interests: Project Management: Systems Thinking: Action Research
Phone: +612 95148882 UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F
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