Charlie,
Congratulations on beginning your new role as the MSR Representative at Large for Community Building! I think doing a survey of the listserv members could be helpful now as we start the new year.
Thanks for your post and for sharing the quote from an article in the very first MSR newsletter - from 2000. The archives of all MSR newsletters on the AOM/ MSR website holds much good thought-provoking information about MSR history and research. I welcome the opportunities this listserv offers for many MSR research discussions — related to current questions folks have and thoughts concerning research and/or responses to that quote (below) from the 2000.
Question to listserv participants — about MSR research:
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What do you think would be good advice to offer interested colleagues or students that want to learn from your involvement in MSR research? What readings do you encourage others to review: articles or books that are you have found vital to MSR research?
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What current research topics would you like to discuss with others who are on this listserv?
I am back in Athens, Ohio — Returning from Vancouver, BC. and grateful for the time to meet so many MSR participants at the recent AOM Vancouver conference and MSR Retreat that followed. All the MSR PDW and Program sessions that I attended were very helpful, rich, full of inspiration and seemed to me to be great opportunities for a lot of participant engagement and learning. Many new MSR attenders (faculty, scholar/practitioners and doctoral students) that I talked with were interested in learning more about appropriate MSR research practices/ methods.
I also attended the one day MSR 2015 Scholarly Research & Publishing Consortium. It took place at the University of British Columbia on the day before the AOM began. Julie Burkey organized this full day for doctoral students and faculty who wanted the support of this focus on MSR research and publication. I believe it will happen again next year in Anaheim, CA - before the AOM conference.
Best wishes,
Mary Finney
Ohio University
On 8/25/15, 10:17 AM, "Management, Spirituality & Religion on behalf of Charles Thomas Tackney" <
MSR@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU on behalf of
cttack@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>Dear MSR colleagues:
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>Greetings from a sunny Copenhagen. I find myself on this side of the 2015 Vancouver AOM and great MSR retreat, feeling gratitude, but also starting to think about what to do in respect of landing a Community representative post from the last MSR election. Perhaps a survey to see what the listserve members think important or helpful going forward? Anyone have questions that just need to be asked?
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>> But then I thought perhaps a simple greeting with an invite to send notions - either to the listserve or to my email:
cttack@gmail.com .
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>I did begin reading the MSR newsletter, from a suggestion by Mary Finney - who has read them all. And right off the bat, I came upon this quote below, which brought to mind many recent AOM conference and retreat discussions about the yet not totally realized significance of and possible ways forward for the Interest Group:
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>Winter, 2000:
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>From the first newsletter, the first article, the first page, and the first paragraph:
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>Examining Multi-Level or Holistic Spiritual Phenomena in the Workplace By Judi Neal and Joel Bennett
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>A key practical question in workplace spirituality is how to put ideas and theories into practice. A review of the literature (Neal, 1997) reveals that most authors and practitioners focus on only one of four possible levels of analysis: (1) Individual, (2) Group, (3), Organizational, and (4) Societal. It is our contention that researchers and practitioners will be more effective if they simultaneously consider these four levels rather than only one at a time in their analysis. This way they make the most informed decisions about what to study or where to intervene in the system. For example, practitioners now have access to a growing set of organizational change strategies that require sensitivity to multiple levels (Holman & Devane, 1999). And, in a parallel fashion, researchers can draw from recent advances in multi-level statistical methods (Klein & Kozlowski, 2000). This brief article seeks to 1) situate such change strategies and research methods within the broader framework of organizational spirituality, and 2) stimulate conversation and research about spirituality across all levels of organizations. In fact, we propose that those change strategies and research methods that are more multi-level or holistic (rather than fragmentary) would ultimately provide a more sensitive and accurate reading of spiritual phenomena in the workplace.
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>> You can find the entire piece on the MSR website in the Newsletter archives. As I think about AOM 2016, the paragraph reference to levels of analysis certainly seems to help orient thought for more comprehensive scholarship....
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>Best wishes,
>Charlie Tackney
>(An Assoc. Prof. at Copenhagen Business School, Dept. of Intercultural Communication and Management)