Dear MSR colleagues and friends,
We are delighted to send you details for our 3rd annual Management Spirituality and Religion search consortium that will take place Thursday August 3rd at the Doubletree Downtown in Atlanta.
We wish to inspire participants' current and future MSR research through successful examples of methodologies, theory building, research topics, field research, publications and conferences.
- Research process: methodologies and topics; how have successful authors managed over time?
- Publishing: who publishes MSR articles, where, what new trends, what do reviewers look for?
Formal codes of ethics are based on normative principles that set forth ideal goals to which organizations should aspire. They determine the desired behavior among employees and managers and towards external stakeholders.
However, in practice the codes of ethics cannot dictate specific behaviors, as they do not necessarily inspire genuine moral commitment and authentic moral practice to employees and managers who are called to take decisions and resolve particular ethical dilemmas. Eventually, the choice of decision and action is the self-expression of the decision-makers and depends on their individual ethicality. Questions we would like to explore during the panel conversation are:
· How in a general way would spirituality be related to business ethics?
· How do human beings make ethical decisions?
· How can spirituality improve/enhance the ethicality of management decisions?
· What questions, thoughts or intentions could we have in dialog with other AOM division members?
· What would we like to research and are having problems researching? What is the most challenging to us?
For any last minute registrations, please rapidly contact Eleftheria Egel (ee@amfortas.eu).
For those of you unable to come to Atlanta, we will test for the first time an online video stream of the panel discussion from 10 am to 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time : https://zoom.us/j/112579163
Our panelists are Brad Agle, Tom Culham, Mary Finney, Dan Harris, Avi Kay, Jim Stoner and Charles Tackney.
Please find attached the announcement as well as the agenda with our panelists' bios.
Agenda
9:00 - 9:15 15 mn Arrival, set in, coffee
9:15 - 9:30 15 mn Opening (Jim, MSR Chair, 5 mn), Day agenda
9:30 - 10:00 30 mn Ice breaker and participant expectations. We will share some through Eleftheria's participant survey
10:00 - 11:30 90 mn Panel discussion on the interface of Spirituality and Business Ethics
11:30 - 12:00 30 mn Coffee break. We'll capture and display some key words that arose during the panel
12:00 - 13:00 60 mn Q&A and Plenary discussion. Eleftheria starts with a sum-up of the panel discussion and questions collected during the coffee break. Interactive session
13:00 - 14:00 60 mn Lunch, 1-2 senior members per table (7 panelists + 4 MSR officers)
14:00 - 14:30 30 mn Most promising dissertation awards research projects: 3 x 10 mn (Jim).
For the purpose of time management, feedback will have to await the split-off groups
14:30 - 14:45 15 mn MSR Mentoring Program with testimonials from mentors and from mentees
14:45 - 16:15 90 mn Split off groups: theme tables by research topics, methodology, survey and plenary results, includes pm break.
16:15 – 16:45 30 mn Publishing process challenges and advice from MSR staff with editorial experience
16:45 – 17:05 20 mn Wrap up, participants' feedback
17:05- 17:15 10 mn Closing words by Jim
We are looking forward to seeing those of you who will be there and hope those who are far can connect for the panel discussion 10am – 1 pm EST.
Warm regards,
The MSR Research Consortium Committee,
Julie Burkey, Eleftheria Egel, Richard J Major