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  • 1.  Request for ideas/resources

    Posted 12-12-2017 13:44
    Dear Members,

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

    Happy holidays!

    --
    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    College of Business Administration
    Management and Organizations Area
    California State University, Sacramento
    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088
    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819
    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041






  • 2.  Request for ideas/resources

    Posted 12-12-2017 21:41

    Dear Sargam,

     

    Love your question.  I just did a search – perhaps there is something here that might be of interest to you.  I look forward to what others will add to this.  

     

    I hope all will respond through this listserv so we can all benefit from the responses.

     

    Mary Finney

     

    Here is my search tonight on poetry and business:

     

    0. Articles

    • Neal M. Ashkanasy

    SPECIAL SECTION: Art and Design in Management Education ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU December 1, 2006 5:4 484-485; doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.23473208

    ...on my desk of the first draft of the remarkable essay by Nancy Adler, The Arts & Leadership: Now That We Can Do Anything, What Will We Do? I immediately recognized that this manuscript was not the usual stock-in-trade of academic journals. Here was a piece that seemed to be going beyond the usual ~~~

     

    1. Poetry and the business life

    Ralph Windle Management Decision Vol. 44, Iss. 4, 2006, pp. 457-463

    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look again at the ideas set out in the author's 1994 anthology, The Poetry of Business Life . Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a large sample of poems on business themes by a variety of "professional" and "practising managerial" poets. It supplies a spontaneous, empirical first taxonomy (organised as "Cantos" in the eventual 1994 anthology) of the areas of "economic life" where the domains of "poetry" and "business" seem most to intersect. Such spontaneous classification yields important but mainly unsurprising "topic cells" (Cantos) – "Money", "Work", "Markets", "Corporate life", "Politics and power", "Technology" etc. – each requiring further research. The residue of less predictable themes, however, includes "Travel and movement" as an important but (by analysts) relatively neglected, obsessive source of metaphor and poetic focus. Findings – Across these "vertical" structures of topic and theme the paper points towards the more generic "lateral" implications for all of them of the differences between the "language of poetry" (evocation, relational) and the conventional "language of business" (information, measurement, separation). This is the author's main area of future interest. Originality/value – The paper confirms the need to pursue critical analysis of "business poetry" by the exacting criteria of poetry generally rather than merely as an esoteric, separate sub-category.

     

    2. Poetry Recitation for Business Students

    Beth Hoger Business Communication Quarterly Vol. 75, Iss. 3, September 2012, pp. 291-300

    Poetry recitation removes the distractions of creating and organizing original material so that business students can focus on presentation skills of delivery, confidence, and memory. Delivery includes articulation, emphasis, nonverbals, and presence. Confidence and memory development are complementary. Confidence comes from trusting the memory and memory adds confidence. Memory is treated as a larger skill for business, not as a crutch for presenting. Rationale, resources, implementation and evaluation for this assignment are all detailed.

     

    3. Profit from poetry: Bards, brands, and burnished bottom lines

    S. Brown; R. Wijland Business Horizons Vol. 58, Iss. 5, September - October, 2015, pp. 551-561

    A poet, Wallace Stevens once said, makes silk dresses out of worms. What the great American modernist didn't reveal is the brand of silk dresses that worms weave so well. This article takes up where Stevens left off. It identifies the ways in which corporations can profit from poetry. It examines the fractious yet fruitful relationship between bards and brands. It notes the business background of several big, brand-name poets. And, illuminated by a recent instance of haiku hacktivism, it argues that poetry is an apt metaphor for branding in today's texting, tweeting, crowdsourced, co-created, there's-an-app-for-that world. Despite Stevens' subsequent contention that money is a kind of poetry, the article concludes that marketing's case is stronger still.

     

    4. "With Edges of Rage and Despair": Anger and the Poetry of Office Life

    Allison M. Fraiberg Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 19, Iss. 3, September 2010, pp. 196-207

    In the past two decades, management studies have made significant use of poetry both in research projects and teaching contexts. During the same time, numerous collections of poetry have appeared focusing on business life with contributions in particular by office workers. This article addresses the relationship between management research on poetry and the actual poetry in these ever more frequently appearing collections. Most work in management studies focuses on the form of poetry, rather than the content. By applying the concepts of "evoked knowledge" and "shared texts" from Antonio Strati's organizational aesthetics, the content themes are made visible. Persistent in these collections is the appearance of the related feelings of anger, rage, and despair. An interpretive exploration of relevant poems illustrates how this kind of analysis can contribute to a broader understanding of workplace-anger issues, one that fully and deeply incorporates the inner lives of workers. Less

    Keywords: workplace anger; poetry; organizational aesthetics; evoked knowledge

     

    5. Why are we Talking Inside?

    Gail Whiteman Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 13, Iss. 3, September 2004, pp. 261-277

    In this article, I utilize semifictional dialogue as a means of reflecting on my Ph.D. research on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Although my findings were ultimately published in The Academy of Management Journal, the research, defense, and publication process raised a number of interesting issues, including ambiguities and miscommunications that emerged when I tried to communicate and share my findings with academic and business audiences. These reflections are presented in a creative semifictional format that privileges the dialogical basis of Indigenous oral tradition and storytelling. By using this medium, I hope to deepen our understanding and appreciation of TEK as an interesting ecologically embedded approach to management and also to raise and reflect on the validity and implications of using this type of ethnographic representation within organizational research.

     

    Keywords: semifiction; ethnography; narrative; Indigenous peoples; traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)

     

    6. Leadership Research: An Arts-Informed Perspective

    Soosan Daghighi Latham Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 23, Iss. 2, April 2014, pp. 123-132

    The positivist tradition for studying leadership involves correlational analyses and manipulation of an independent variable to determine the effect on a dependent variable while holding all other variables constant. Despite voluminous empirical data, an understanding of leadership has remained elusive. This article proposes the convergence of an arts-informed qualitative research with positivist methodologies, opening up space for a nontraditional approach to understanding leadership that is storied, embodied, and participatory. The epistemological pluralism of arts-informed research, rooted in the literary, visual, and performing arts, generates possibilities for understanding the tacit personal worldview of culturally diverse leaders who, as the result of globalization and changing demographics, are reaching leadership positions. Through a process of reflexivity, knowledge of the particular, and shared meaning-making, this approach has the potential to inform scholarship by enabling researchers to tap into and appreciate emotional as well as cognitive processes that differentiate and explain the behavior of leaders.

     

    Keywords: leadership; qualitative research; cross-cultural; mixed methods; creativity

     

    7. How I Write: An Inquiry Into the Writing Practices of Academics

    Charlotte Cloutier Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 25, Iss. 1, January 2016, pp. 69-84

    Although scores of articles and books have been written on what constitutes good writing in academia, we've granted far less attention to academic writing as a daily practice. Yet it is precisely because it is so taken-for-granted that writing as a practice needs to be explored, investigated, and questioned. In this article, I reflect on academic writing as a practice through conversations on writing with researchers in the fields of management and organization studies. By reflecting on the writing processes and practices of others, I offer a lens through which researchers-as-writers can examine their own writing practices, and by so doing, expand their personal repertoires of practices and approaches for producing meaningful texts.

     

    8. Daring to Care: Scholarship that Supports the Courage of Our Convictions

    Nancy J. Adler; Hans Hansen Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 21, Iss. 2, April 2012, pp. 128-139

    Whatever we choose to do, the stakes are very high.David Whyte (1994, p. 298), poet Researching questions that matter demands passionate conviction. Whether recognized as such or not, such conviction, combined with profound compassion, defines true scholarship. Daring to care requires courage-the courage to speak out and to act. Courage transforms convictions and compassion into action. Thus, by its very nature, daring to care calls into question the traditional role of rigid scientific objectivity and invites advocacy to play a vital role within our scholarly tradition. In focusing on daring to care, this article raises questions that academia must ask itself in order to support scholars in rigorously researching and teaching about issues that matter. It provides examples of scholarship that have required courage, conviction, and compassion, including a case example where the outcome of appropriate methodology is literally life or death. Throughout the discussion, readers are invited to consider what supports their core convictions, compassion, and courageous action in their own scholarship, teaching, and advocacy.

     

    Keywords: courage; compassion; commitment; academic leadership; scholarship

     

    9. Leadership Research: An Arts-Informed Perspective

    Soosan Daghighi Latham Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 23, Iss. 2, April 2014, pp. 123-132

    The positivist tradition for studying leadership involves correlational analyses and manipulation of an independent variable to determine the effect on a dependent variable while holding all other variables constant. Despite voluminous empirical data, an understanding of leadership has remained elusive. This article proposes the convergence of an arts-informed qualitative research with positivist methodologies, opening up space for a nontraditional approach to understanding leadership that is storied, embodied, and participatory. The epistemological pluralism of arts-informed research, rooted in the literary, visual, and performing arts, generates possibilities for understanding the tacit personal worldview of culturally diverse leaders who, as the result of globalization and changing demographics, are reaching leadership positions. Through a process of reflexivity, knowledge of the particular, and shared meaning-making, this approach has the potential to inform scholarship by enabling researchers to tap into and appreciate emotional as well as cognitive processes that differentiate and explain the behavior of leaders.

     

    Keywords: leadership; qualitative research; cross-cultural; mixed methods; creativity

     

    10. Roses Are Red, Money Is Green: A Resource Review of What Poetry Brings to Business

    Carolyn M. Plump; William Van Buskirk Journal of Management Education Vol. 39, Iss. 2, April 2015, pp. 297-304

     

    11. 7. The Inspirational Laozi : Poetry, Business, and the Blues

    Livia Kohn Journal of Daoist Studies Vol. 8, January 1, 2015, pp. 137-151

     

    12. Speaking in poetry: Community service-based business education

    Robert H. Hogner Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 15, Iss. 1, January 1996, pp. 33-43

    This is a story of the development of a community service for business education project in Florida International University's Business Environment Program. The Project, as it is called, had its practical origins in student involvement in community activism-type projects. Its theoretical foundation is found in the concept of increasing community discourse - following Dewey (1954) - as a vehicle for strengthening the business and society bond. Student community service projects are described including the largest group to evolve, a group dedicated to feeding Miami's homeless and taking the name the FIU Foodrunners. The Project is now in its third year with approximately five-hundred students per year working twenty-five hours per semester on community service projects. The community service requirement directly as a result of experiences with the Project has expanded beyond the Business Environment courses to offerings in other departments and is now part of a University-wide recently institutionalized structure designed to stimulate student community service efforts. Today was our third run, the third Sunday of waking up early. Now that I have been reading Aram and putting the pieces together, I can see how this concept of business and society comes together.

     

    13. Poetry in the boardroom: thinking beyond the facts: A roundtable discussion among Ted Buswick, Clare Morgan and Kirsten Lange

    Ted Buswick; Clare Morgan; Kirsten Lange Journal of Business Strategy Vol. 26, Iss. 1, February 01, 2005, pp. 34-40

    Purpose - To convey the findings of an investigation into the relationship between poetry and business thinking, which began with the hypothesis that regular reading and analysis of poetry and its levels of meaning, subtle verbal and nonverbal contextual nuances, emotional content, and required associative thinking will help people deal with ambiguity, delay closure on decisions, and result in more systemic thinking and in better business decisions. Findings - The research and workshops indicate that reading poetry can expand thinking space by enhancing associative thinking and access to preconceptual areas. Research limitation/implications - The findings are based on extensive interdisciplinary research and a small number of seminars and workshops. No formal studies have yet been conducted. Practical implications - This provides a way to open thinking spaces that may be often unused by the business strategist, and that can lead to better decisions. By focusing on how executives can refine their thinking abilities to take them beyond the ordinary limits of cause-and-effect approaches, encourages the application of those radical judgments that can help differentiate one organization from another. Originality/value - The authors believe they are the first to explore this relationship between reading poetry and business thinking.

     

    Keywords: Corporate strategy; Creative thinking; Decision making; Innovation; Management strategy; Poetry

     

    14. Using Poetry and the Visual Arts to Develop Emotional Intelligence

    J. Andrew Morris; John Urbanski; Janice Fuller Journal of Management Education Vol. 29, Iss. 6, December 2005, pp. 888-904

    This article presents a series of experiential exercises designed to use visual arts and poetry in classroom settings to increase students'awareness and recognition of emotion-two key components of emotional intelligence. Drawing on the liberal arts in the manner described in the exercises provides the instructor with a context in which students can examine emotions and also helps business faculty blend the skills and competencies students acquire during their studies in the liberal arts with career preparation the students receive in the traditional business administration curriculum.

     

    Keywords: emotional intelligence; emotions; poetry; arts; liberal education

     

    15. "With Edges of Rage and Despair": Anger and the Poetry of Office Life

    Allison M. Fraiberg Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 19, Iss. 3, September 2010, pp. 196-207

    In the past two decades, management studies have made significant use of poetry both in research projects and teaching contexts. During the same time, numerous collections of poetry have appeared focusing on business life with contributions in particular by office workers. This article addresses the relationship between management research on poetry and the actual poetry in these ever more frequently appearing collections. Most work in management studies focuses on the form of poetry, rather than the content. By applying the concepts of "evoked knowledge" and "shared texts" from Antonio Strati's organizational aesthetics, the content themes are made visible. Persistent in these collections is the appearance of the related feelings of anger, rage, and despair. An interpretive exploration of relevant poems illustrates how this kind of analysis can contribute to a broader understanding of workplace-anger issues, one that fully and deeply incorporates the inner lives of workers.

     

    Keywords: workplace anger; poetry; organizational aesthetics; evoked knowledge

     

    16. Tell me a story: Using creative writing in introductory accounting courses to enhance and assess student learning

    Cynthia L. Krom; Satina V. Williams Journal of Accounting Education Vol. 29, Iss. 4, December, 2011, pp. 234-249

    Low student motivation, apprehension and anxiety towards accounting, and diversity in learning styles are a few incentives for employing non-traditional tools for teaching introductory accounting courses. Three modes of storytelling – fairy tales, fables, and poetry – are used in financial and managerial accounting courses to enhance and assess student learning. We find the storytelling exercises give us good insight as to whether students genuinely understand course content. Students indicate that storytelling helps them to understand accounting concepts and make the course more fun. Assignment outcomes have been used at conferences and campus events and have generated conversations about accounting beyond business faculty.

     

    Keywords: Introductory accounting; Creative writing; Formative assessment; Summative assessment; Liberal learning; Deep learning

     

    17. Finding one's voice: the poetry of reflective practice

    Tricia Joy Hiley Management Decision Vol. 44, Iss. 4, 2006, pp. 561-574

    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reveal links between managers developing their reflective practice and the emergence of poetic expression in their writing. Design/methodology/approach – The author runs the Master's year of a university program that helps business leaders', managers, professionals and consultants develop their abilities for leading and managing major change projects using action research. She reflects back over the 12 years of the program and recognizes a link between the development of reflective practice and the emergence of poetry and, increasingly, poetic expression. Findings – At the same time as participants' actions are involving them in dynamically complex issues, working beyond events and into the forces that shape change, it is possible to reflect on what they are learning and how they might express it. As they slow down their thinking, become more reflective and inquire into the assumptions on which their actions are based, and then attempt to articulate this, they begin to experience the re-sounding of their own voices. For many, poetry emerges – in the margins – at the edge of what can be said in words. Practical implications – A major implication for universities and researchers is the realization that a shift from the non-participating "researcher" to the participating "I" is much more than grammatical. Each constitutes a different socially constructed world, uses a different language and is borne on a different voice. Originality/value – There is everyday, practical value in realizing that reflective practice and poetic expression are linked, and that expressing our "selves" in texts that are vital breathes life into our words and our actions in the world.

     

    18. What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond:

    • Danica Purg and
    • Ian Sutherland

    Why Art in Management Education? Questioning Meaning ACAD MANAGE REV April 2017 42:2 382-396; published ahead of print February 26, 2016, doi:10.5465/amr.2016.0047

    ...poetry of our land, from the national poet Dr. France Prešeren (1800–1849) to the young social "TheWhiteHorse Inn" isanoperettabyRalphBenatzkyand Robert Stolz, while "Mountain's Flower" was authored by Slovene composer Radovan Gobec. The performances referred to here featured the factory orchestra ~~~

     

    19.  What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?

    • Jean M. Bartunek and
    • Belle Rose Ragins

    Extending a Provocative Tradition: Book Reviews and Beyond at AMR ACAD MANAGE REV July 2015 40:3 474-479; published ahead of print February 10, 2015, doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0029

    ...poetry (1974, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2000). For example, he explored William Butler Yeats's poem "Easter, 1916" and, in the process, observed that "poetry is a natural medium for expressing and contemplating doubt, paradox, and contradiction-features of life, well-known to experienced managers, but ~~~

     

    20. What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?

    • Alexander Styhre

    What David Foster Wallace Can Teach Management Scholars ACAD MANAGE REV January 2016 41:1 170-183; published ahead of print August 21, 2015, doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0250

    ...poetry and prose and juridical matters, I would say that professional authors, otherwise publishingprimarily fiction-for example, novels, short stories, and plays-are remarkably underrated social commentators and archeologists of human culture and human relations. Literary and analytical qualities a ~~~

     

    21. Book Review

    • Joep P. Cornelissen

    Portrait of an Entrepreneur: Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, and the Entrepreneurial Imagination ACAD MANAGE REV October 2013 38:4 700-709; published ahead of print March 5, 2013, doi:10.5465/amr.2013.0068

    ...poetry to astronomical discoveries (p. 761). In his own words, Jobs positioned himself at the interface of the humanities and technology. The intersection channeled his creativity, initially into changing the design and functionality of existing products that were already in use, and later on into c ~~~

     

    22. Patrick Reilly

    The Layers of a Clown: Career Development in Cultural Production Industries ACAD MANAGE DISCOVER June 2017 3:145-164; published ahead of print September 23, 2016, doi:10.5465/amd.2015.0160

    ...poetry readings alongside less-established writers to develop new material, maintain community membership, and integrate newer writers into their networks. Cornfield (2015) found that "enterprising artists" in Nashville remain consciously active in the local music scene to achieve greater artistic f ~~~

     

    23. hematic Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility

    • Donal Crilly,
    • Morten Hansen,
    • and Maurizio Zollo

    The Grammar of Decoupling: A Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective on Firms' Sustainability Claims and Stakeholders' Interpretation ACAD MANAGE J April 2016 59:2 705-729; published ahead of print December 22, 2015, doi:10.5465/amj.2015.0171

    ...poetry . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 99 : 549 – 571 . James W. 1976 . Essays in radical empiricism . Boston, MA : Harvard University Press . Jay J. 2013 . Navigating paradox as a mechanism for change and innovation in hybrid organizations . Academy of Management Journal , 56 : 1 ~~~

     

    24. Jean M. Bartunek

    Academic-Practitioner Collaboration Need not Require Joint or Relevant Research: Toward a Relational Scholarship of Integration ACAD MANAGE J December 1, 2007 50:6 1323-1333; doi:10.5465/AMJ.2007.28165912

    ...poetry (e.g., March, 1990, 2000). Nancy Adler, Keith Murnighan, Al Bluedorn, Denny Gioia, Mary Jo Hatch, and several others have presented exquisite art and photography. All of these expressions almost certainly enable communication with (and learning from) people beyond academia in ways that may we ~~~

     

    25.  Michael M. Harmon

    Business Research and Chinese Patriotic Poetry: How Competition for Status Distorts the Priority Between Research and Teaching in U.S. Business Schools ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU June 1, 2006 5:2 234-243; doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.21253789

    ...poetry of dubious aesthetic merit, now produce research in prodigious quantities. Recent criticism of this preoccupation with research "output" has noted that too little of it is either widely read or comprehensible to a broader audience of readers, that the practical value of research is often mini ~~~

     

    26. Research

    Paul Hibbert, Nic Beech, and Frank Siedlok

    Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU amle.2015.0243; published ahead of print February 20, 2017, doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0243

    ...poetry to photography. For example: he engages with Don McCullin's well-known photograph of a shell-shocked marine (Danchev, 2011:35), a picture that immediately invites you into harrowing speculations; and he reflects on Kafka's fiction to illuminate Abu Ghraib and the 'War on Terror' (Danchev, 201 ~~~

     

    27.  Books & Resource Reviews

    • Robert Kramer

    Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2016 15:3 639-643; published ahead of print July 12, 2016, doi:10.5465/amle.2016.0207

    ...poetry reading in the English Department. After the reading, ask them to compare and contrast what they learned about how poets use language with how language is used by their favorite management scholar-including any of the contributors to this book. Listen carefully to your students' feedback. All ~~~

     

    28.  Essays, Dialogues & Interviews

    • Christopher Michaelson

    A Novel Approach to Business Ethics Education: Exploring How to Live and Work in the 21st Century ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2016 15:3 588-606; published ahead of print June 19, 2015, doi:10.5465/amle.2014.0129

    ...poetry are universals. Somewhat paradoxically, thevery relevanceof fictionalnarrative to real life depends upon its fictitiousness, opening up possibilities for readers to imagine, contemplate, and bring fictional things into analogywith real ones. The ability to pretend is obvious and observable in ~~~

     

    29. Essays, Dialogues, & Interviews

    • Joel M. Podolny

    A Conversation With James G. March on Learning About Leadership ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2011 10:3 502-506; doi:10.5465/amle.2011.0003

    ...poetry side of leadership-the understanding of the deeper dilemmas of leadership in our society. These include such issues as the relation between public life and private life, the balance between diversity and unity, the role of gender and sex in leadership, and the justification of great action. T ~~~

     

    30. From the Editors

    • Siri Terjesen and
    • Diamanto Politis

    From the Editors: In Praise of Multidisciplinary Scholarship and the Polymath ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU June 2015 14:2 151-157; doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0089

    ...poetry Medical texts, liturgical songs, plays, poems, visionary theological texts Luca Luigi Cavalli-Sforza (1922–present) Genetics, geographic migration patterns Estimation of human species populations' evolutionary trees based on genetics and migration; Cultural transmission across societies Herbe ~~~

     

    31.  Research

    • Paul Hibbert,
    • Nic Beech,
    • and Frank Siedlok

    Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU amle.2015.0243; published ahead of print February 20, 2017, doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0243

    ...this essay to the memory of Alex Danchev (August 26, 1955 - August 7, 2016), a brilliant interdisciplinary and interpretive scholar of art, history and politics, whose recent passing is a tragedy for many disciplines and intellectual discourse in general. Page 1 of 53 Academy of Management Learning ~~~

     

    32. Organizing through Empathy

    Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    Edited by  Kathryn Pavlovich , Edited by  Keiko Krahnke

     

    Empathy dissolves the boundaries between self and others, and feelings of altruism towards others are activated. This process results in more compassionate and caring contexts, as well as helping others in times of suffering. This book provides evidence from neuroscience and quantum physics that it is empathy that connects humanity, and that this awareness can create a more just society. It extends interest in values-based management, exploring the intellectual, physical, ecological, spiritual and aesthetic well-being of organizations and society rather than the more common management principles of maximising profit and efficiency. This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society

     

    33. Art, 'Knowing' and Management Education

    Kathryn Pavlovich, Keiko Krahnke

    First Published April 1, 2008 Research Article

    Abstract

    This article explores the concept of knowledge as an internal process of inner knowing. In the educational context, we describe our experiences in using art in the classroom to assist our students in accessing this inner knowing. We describe the design and use of such creative expressions. Our findings indicate that students have to integrate both right- and left-brain thinking to access their inner tuition. This slows down linear thinking in order to access the more affective-based learning process. Further, it encourages students to experiment with non-linear methods of learning. We argue that these findings assist students in accessing more choices in their decision making, which in turn will build managers who energize, revitalize and facilitate the growth of humanity through organizational compassion and understanding.

     

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    Subject: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Dear Members,

     

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

     

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

     

    Happy holidays!

     

    --

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041

     

     



  • 3.  Request for ideas/resources

    Posted 12-12-2017 22:23
    Thank you Mary and others for your response.

    Hi Mary,

    As a doctoral student at Rutgers I became a part of MSR community listserv years ago. I have been a passive member, more active in HR and OB divisions.

    After years now, I have to confess this community  always gave me a sense of  joy and security. I can't help but appreciate and be thankful to you for such a caring attitude. Your detailed email below will be a great help.  Being a poet myself,  seeing so much of work already linking business and poetry is very encouraging for me.

    Hopefully in times to come I will engage more with this group. 

    Regards
    Sargam

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    College of Business Administration
    Management and Organizations Area
    California State University, Sacramento
    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088
    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819




    On Dec 12, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Finney, Mary <finneym@OHIO.EDU> wrote:

    Dear Sargam,
     
    Love your question.  I just did a search – perhaps there is something here that might be of interest to you.  I look forward to what others will add to this.  
     
    I hope all will respond through this listserv so we can all benefit from the responses.
     
    Mary Finney
     
    Here is my search tonight on poetry and business:
     
    0. Articles 
    • Neal M. Ashkanasy
    SPECIAL SECTION: Art and Design in Management Education ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU December 1, 2006 5:4 484-485; doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.23473208
    ...on my desk of the first draft of the remarkable essay by Nancy Adler, The Arts &#38; Leadership: Now That We Can Do Anything, What Will We Do? I immediately recognized that this manuscript was not the usual stock-in-trade of academic journals. Here was a piece that seemed to be going beyond the usual ~~~
     
    Ralph Windle Management Decision Vol. 44, Iss. 4, 2006, pp. 457-463 
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look again at the ideas set out in the author's 1994 anthology, The Poetry of Business Life . Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a large sample of poems on business themes by a variety of "professional" and "practising managerial" poets. It supplies a spontaneous, empirical first taxonomy (organised as "Cantos" in the eventual 1994 anthology) of the areas of "economic life" where the domains of "poetry" and "business" seem most to intersect. Such spontaneous classification yields important but mainly unsurprising "topic cells" (Cantos) – "Money", "Work", "Markets", "Corporate life", "Politics and power", "Technology" etc. – each requiring further research. The residue of less predictable themes, however, includes "Travel and movement" as an important but (by analysts) relatively neglected, obsessive source of metaphor and poetic focus. Findings – Across these "vertical" structures of topic and theme the paper points towards the more generic "lateral" implications for all of them of the differences between the "language of poetry" (evocation, relational) and the conventional "language of business" (information, measurement, separation). This is the author's main area of future interest. Originality/value – The paper confirms the need to pursue critical analysis of "business poetry" by the exacting criteria of poetry generally rather than merely as an esoteric, separate sub-category.
     
    Beth Hoger Business Communication Quarterly Vol. 75, Iss. 3, September 2012, pp. 291-300
    Poetry recitation removes the distractions of creating and organizing original material so that business students can focus on presentation skills of delivery, confidence, and memory. Delivery includes articulation, emphasis, nonverbals, and presence. Confidence and memory development are complementary. Confidence comes from trusting the memory and memory adds confidence. Memory is treated as a larger skill for business, not as a crutch for presenting. Rationale, resources, implementation and evaluation for this assignment are all detailed. 
     
    S. Brown; R. Wijland Business Horizons Vol. 58, Iss. 5, September - October, 2015, pp. 551-561 
    A poet, Wallace Stevens once said, makes silk dresses out of worms. What the great American modernist didn't reveal is the brand of silk dresses that worms weave so well. This article takes up where Stevens left off. It identifies the ways in which corporations can profit from poetry. It examines the fractious yet fruitful relationship between bards and brands. It notes the business background of several big, brand-name poets. And, illuminated by a recent instance of haiku hacktivism, it argues that poetry is an apt metaphor for branding in today's texting, tweeting, crowdsourced, co-created, there's-an-app-for-that world. Despite Stevens' subsequent contention that money is a kind of poetry, the article concludes that marketing's case is stronger still. 
     
    Allison M. Fraiberg Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 19, Iss. 3, September 2010, pp. 196-207 
    In the past two decades, management studies have made significant use of poetry both in research projects and teaching contexts. During the same time, numerous collections of poetry have appeared focusing on business life with contributions in particular by office workers. This article addresses the relationship between management research on poetry and the actual poetry in these ever more frequently appearing collections. Most work in management studies focuses on the form of poetry, rather than the content. By applying the concepts of "evoked knowledge" and "shared texts" from Antonio Strati's organizational aesthetics, the content themes are made visible. Persistent in these collections is the appearance of the related feelings of anger, rage, and despair. An interpretive exploration of relevant poems illustrates how this kind of analysis can contribute to a broader understanding of workplace-anger issues, one that fully and deeply incorporates the inner lives of workers. Less
    Keywords: workplace anger; poetry; organizational aesthetics; evoked knowledge
     
    Gail Whiteman Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 13, Iss. 3, September 2004, pp. 261-277 
    In this article, I utilize semifictional dialogue as a means of reflecting on my Ph.D. research on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Although my findings were ultimately published in The Academy of Management Journal, the research, defense, and publication process raised a number of interesting issues, including ambiguities and miscommunications that emerged when I tried to communicate and share my findings with academic and business audiences. These reflections are presented in a creative semifictional format that privileges the dialogical basis of Indigenous oral tradition and storytelling. By using this medium, I hope to deepen our understanding and appreciation of TEK as an interesting ecologically embedded approach to management and also to raise and reflect on the validity and implications of using this type of ethnographic representation within organizational research.
     
    Keywords: semifiction; ethnography; narrative; Indigenous peoples; traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
     
    Soosan Daghighi Latham Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 23, Iss. 2, April 2014, pp. 123-132 
    The positivist tradition for studying leadership involves correlational analyses and manipulation of an independent variable to determine the effect on a dependent variable while holding all other variables constant. Despite voluminous empirical data, an understanding of leadership has remained elusive. This article proposes the convergence of an arts-informed qualitative research with positivist methodologies, opening up space for a nontraditional approach to understanding leadership that is storied, embodied, and participatory. The epistemological pluralism of arts-informed research, rooted in the literary, visual, and performing arts, generates possibilities for understanding the tacit personal worldview of culturally diverse leaders who, as the result of globalization and changing demographics, are reaching leadership positions. Through a process of reflexivity, knowledge of the particular, and shared meaning-making, this approach has the potential to inform scholarship by enabling researchers to tap into and appreciate emotional as well as cognitive processes that differentiate and explain the behavior of leaders.
     
    Keywords: leadership; qualitative research; cross-cultural; mixed methods; creativity
     
    Charlotte Cloutier Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 25, Iss. 1, January 2016, pp. 69-84 
    Although scores of articles and books have been written on what constitutes good writing in academia, we've granted far less attention to academic writing as a daily practice. Yet it is precisely because it is so taken-for-granted that writing as a practice needs to be explored, investigated, and questioned. In this article, I reflect on academic writing as a practice through conversations on writing with researchers in the fields of management and organization studies. By reflecting on the writing processes and practices of others, I offer a lens through which researchers-as-writers can examine their own writing practices, and by so doing, expand their personal repertoires of practices and approaches for producing meaningful texts. 
     
    Nancy J. Adler; Hans Hansen Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 21, Iss. 2, April 2012, pp. 128-139 
    Whatever we choose to do, the stakes are very high.David Whyte (1994, p. 298), poet Researching questions that matter demands passionate conviction. Whether recognized as such or not, such conviction, combined with profound compassion, defines true scholarship. Daring to care requires courage-the courage to speak out and to act. Courage transforms convictions and compassion into action. Thus, by its very nature, daring to care calls into question the traditional role of rigid scientific objectivity and invites advocacy to play a vital role within our scholarly tradition. In focusing on daring to care, this article raises questions that academia must ask itself in order to support scholars in rigorously researching and teaching about issues that matter. It provides examples of scholarship that have required courage, conviction, and compassion, including a case example where the outcome of appropriate methodology is literally life or death. Throughout the discussion, readers are invited to consider what supports their core convictions, compassion, and courageous action in their own scholarship, teaching, and advocacy.
     
    Keywords: courage; compassion; commitment; academic leadership; scholarship
     
    Soosan Daghighi Latham Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 23, Iss. 2, April 2014, pp. 123-132 
    The positivist tradition for studying leadership involves correlational analyses and manipulation of an independent variable to determine the effect on a dependent variable while holding all other variables constant. Despite voluminous empirical data, an understanding of leadership has remained elusive. This article proposes the convergence of an arts-informed qualitative research with positivist methodologies, opening up space for a nontraditional approach to understanding leadership that is storied, embodied, and participatory. The epistemological pluralism of arts-informed research, rooted in the literary, visual, and performing arts, generates possibilities for understanding the tacit personal worldview of culturally diverse leaders who, as the result of globalization and changing demographics, are reaching leadership positions. Through a process of reflexivity, knowledge of the particular, and shared meaning-making, this approach has the potential to inform scholarship by enabling researchers to tap into and appreciate emotional as well as cognitive processes that differentiate and explain the behavior of leaders.
     
    Keywords: leadership; qualitative research; cross-cultural; mixed methods; creativity
     
    Carolyn M. Plump; William Van Buskirk Journal of Management Education Vol. 39, Iss. 2, April 2015, pp. 297-304 
     
    Livia Kohn Journal of Daoist Studies Vol. 8, January 1, 2015, pp. 137-151 
      
    Robert H. Hogner Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 15, Iss. 1, January 1996, pp. 33-43 
    This is a story of the development of a community service for business education project in Florida International University's Business Environment Program. The Project, as it is called, had its practical origins in student involvement in community activism-type projects. Its theoretical foundation is found in the concept of increasing community discourse - following Dewey (1954) - as a vehicle for strengthening the business and society bond. Student community service projects are described including the largest group to evolve, a group dedicated to feeding Miami's homeless and taking the name the FIU Foodrunners. The Project is now in its third year with approximately five-hundred students per year working twenty-five hours per semester on community service projects. The community service requirement directly as a result of experiences with the Project has expanded beyond the Business Environment courses to offerings in other departments and is now part of a University-wide recently institutionalized structure designed to stimulate student community service efforts. Today was our third run, the third Sunday of waking up early. Now that I have been reading Aram and putting the pieces together, I can see how this concept of business and society comes together. 
     
    Ted Buswick; Clare Morgan; Kirsten Lange Journal of Business Strategy Vol. 26, Iss. 1, February 01, 2005, pp. 34-40 
    Purpose - To convey the findings of an investigation into the relationship between poetry and business thinking, which began with the hypothesis that regular reading and analysis of poetry and its levels of meaning, subtle verbal and nonverbal contextual nuances, emotional content, and required associative thinking will help people deal with ambiguity, delay closure on decisions, and result in more systemic thinking and in better business decisions. Findings - The research and workshops indicate that reading poetry can expand thinking space by enhancing associative thinking and access to preconceptual areas. Research limitation/implications - The findings are based on extensive interdisciplinary research and a small number of seminars and workshops. No formal studies have yet been conducted. Practical implications - This provides a way to open thinking spaces that may be often unused by the business strategist, and that can lead to better decisions. By focusing on how executives can refine their thinking abilities to take them beyond the ordinary limits of cause-and-effect approaches, encourages the application of those radical judgments that can help differentiate one organization from another. Originality/value - The authors believe they are the first to explore this relationship between reading poetry and business thinking.
     
    Keywords: Corporate strategy; Creative thinking; Decision making; Innovation; Management strategy; Poetry
     
    J. Andrew Morris; John Urbanski; Janice Fuller Journal of Management Education Vol. 29, Iss. 6, December 2005, pp. 888-904 
    This article presents a series of experiential exercises designed to use visual arts and poetry in classroom settings to increase students'awareness and recognition of emotion-two key components of emotional intelligence. Drawing on the liberal arts in the manner described in the exercises provides the instructor with a context in which students can examine emotions and also helps business faculty blend the skills and competencies students acquire during their studies in the liberal arts with career preparation the students receive in the traditional business administration curriculum.
     
    Keywords: emotional intelligence; emotions; poetry; arts; liberal education
     
    Allison M. Fraiberg Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 19, Iss. 3, September 2010, pp. 196-207 
    In the past two decades, management studies have made significant use of poetry both in research projects and teaching contexts. During the same time, numerous collections of poetry have appeared focusing on business life with contributions in particular by office workers. This article addresses the relationship between management research on poetry and the actual poetry in these ever more frequently appearing collections. Most work in management studies focuses on the form of poetry, rather than the content. By applying the concepts of "evoked knowledge" and "shared texts" from Antonio Strati's organizational aesthetics, the content themes are made visible. Persistent in these collections is the appearance of the related feelings of anger, rage, and despair. An interpretive exploration of relevant poems illustrates how this kind of analysis can contribute to a broader understanding of workplace-anger issues, one that fully and deeply incorporates the inner lives of workers.
     
    Keywords: workplace anger; poetry; organizational aesthetics; evoked knowledge
     
    Cynthia L. Krom; Satina V. Williams Journal of Accounting Education Vol. 29, Iss. 4, December, 2011, pp. 234-249 
    Low student motivation, apprehension and anxiety towards accounting, and diversity in learning styles are a few incentives for employing non-traditional tools for teaching introductory accounting courses. Three modes of storytelling – fairy tales, fables, and poetry – are used in financial and managerial accounting courses to enhance and assess student learning. We find the storytelling exercises give us good insight as to whether students genuinely understand course content. Students indicate that storytelling helps them to understand accounting concepts and make the course more fun. Assignment outcomes have been used at conferences and campus events and have generated conversations about accounting beyond business faculty. 
     
    Keywords: Introductory accounting; Creative writing; Formative assessment; Summative assessment; Liberal learning; Deep learning
     
    Tricia Joy Hiley Management Decision Vol. 44, Iss. 4, 2006, pp. 561-574 
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reveal links between managers developing their reflective practice and the emergence of poetic expression in their writing. Design/methodology/approach – The author runs the Master's year of a university program that helps business leaders', managers, professionals and consultants develop their abilities for leading and managing major change projects using action research. She reflects back over the 12 years of the program and recognizes a link between the development of reflective practice and the emergence of poetry and, increasingly, poetic expression. Findings – At the same time as participants' actions are involving them in dynamically complex issues, working beyond events and into the forces that shape change, it is possible to reflect on what they are learning and how they might express it. As they slow down their thinking, become more reflective and inquire into the assumptions on which their actions are based, and then attempt to articulate this, they begin to experience the re-sounding of their own voices. For many, poetry emerges – in the margins – at the edge of what can be said in words. Practical implications – A major implication for universities and researchers is the realization that a shift from the non-participating "researcher" to the participating "I" is much more than grammatical. Each constitutes a different socially constructed world, uses a different language and is borne on a different voice. Originality/value – There is everyday, practical value in realizing that reflective practice and poetic expression are linked, and that expressing our "selves" in texts that are vital breathes life into our words and our actions in the world.
     
    18. What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond:
    • Danica Purg and
    • Ian Sutherland
    Why Art in Management Education? Questioning Meaning ACAD MANAGE REV April 2017 42:2 382-396; published ahead of print February 26, 2016, doi:10.5465/amr.2016.0047
    ...poetry of our land, from the national poet Dr. France Prešeren (1800–1849) to the young social "TheWhiteHorse Inn" isanoperettabyRalphBenatzkyand Robert Stolz, while "Mountain's Flower" was authored by Slovene composer Radovan Gobec. The performances referred to here featured the factory orchestra ~~~
     
    19.  What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?
    • Jean M. Bartunek and
    • Belle Rose Ragins
    Extending a Provocative Tradition: Book Reviews and Beyond at AMR ACAD MANAGE REV July 2015 40:3 474-479; published ahead of print February 10, 2015, doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0029
    ...poetry (1974, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2000). For example, he explored William Butler Yeats's poem "Easter, 1916" and, in the process, observed that "poetry is a natural medium for expressing and contemplating doubt, paradox, and contradiction-features of life, well-known to experienced managers, but ~~~
     
    20. What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?
    • Alexander Styhre
    What David Foster Wallace Can Teach Management Scholars ACAD MANAGE REV January 2016 41:1 170-183; published ahead of print August 21, 2015, doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0250
    ...poetry and prose and juridical matters, I would say that professional authors, otherwise publishingprimarily fiction-for example, novels, short stories, and plays-are remarkably underrated social commentators and archeologists of human culture and human relations. Literary and analytical qualities a ~~~
     
    21. Book Review 
    • Joep P. Cornelissen
    Portrait of an Entrepreneur: Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, and the Entrepreneurial Imagination ACAD MANAGE REV October 2013 38:4 700-709; published ahead of print March 5, 2013, doi:10.5465/amr.2013.0068
    ...poetry to astronomical discoveries (p. 761). In his own words, Jobs positioned himself at the interface of the humanities and technology. The intersection channeled his creativity, initially into changing the design and functionality of existing products that were already in use, and later on into c ~~~
     
    22. Patrick Reilly
    The Layers of a Clown: Career Development in Cultural Production Industries ACAD MANAGE DISCOVER June 2017 3:145-164; published ahead of print September 23, 2016, doi:10.5465/amd.2015.0160
    ...poetry readings alongside less-established writers to develop new material, maintain community membership, and integrate newer writers into their networks. Cornfield (2015) found that "enterprising artists" in Nashville remain consciously active in the local music scene to achieve greater artistic f ~~~
     
    23. hematic Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Donal Crilly,
    • Morten Hansen,
    • and Maurizio Zollo
    The Grammar of Decoupling: A Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective on Firms' Sustainability Claims and Stakeholders' Interpretation ACAD MANAGE J April 2016 59:2 705-729; published ahead of print December 22, 2015, doi:10.5465/amj.2015.0171
    ...poetry . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 99 : 549 – 571 . James W. 1976 . Essays in radical empiricism . Boston, MA : Harvard University Press .  Jay J. 2013 . Navigating paradox as a mechanism for change and innovation in hybrid organizations . Academy of Management Journal , 56 : 1 ~~~
     
    24. Jean M. Bartunek
    Academic-Practitioner Collaboration Need not Require Joint or Relevant Research: Toward a Relational Scholarship of Integration ACAD MANAGE J December 1, 2007 50:6 1323-1333; doi:10.5465/AMJ.2007.28165912 
    ...poetry (e.g., March, 1990, 2000). Nancy Adler, Keith Murnighan, Al Bluedorn, Denny Gioia, Mary Jo Hatch, and several others have presented exquisite art and photography. All of these expressions almost certainly enable communication with (and learning from) people beyond academia in ways that may we ~~~
     
    25.  Michael M. Harmon
    Business Research and Chinese Patriotic Poetry: How Competition for Status Distorts the Priority Between Research and Teaching in U.S. Business Schools ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU June 1, 2006 5:2 234-243; doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.21253789 
    ...poetry of dubious aesthetic merit, now produce research in prodigious quantities. Recent criticism of this preoccupation with research "output" has noted that too little of it is either widely read or comprehensible to a broader audience of readers, that the practical value of research is often mini ~~~
     
    26. Research
    Paul Hibbert, Nic Beech, and Frank Siedlok
    Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU amle.2015.0243; published ahead of print February 20, 2017, doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0243
    ...poetry to photography. For example: he engages with Don McCullin's well-known photograph of a shell-shocked marine (Danchev, 2011:35), a picture that immediately invites you into harrowing speculations; and he reflects on Kafka's fiction to illuminate Abu Ghraib and the 'War on Terror' (Danchev, 201 ~~~
     
    27.  Books & Resource Reviews
    • Robert Kramer
    Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2016 15:3 639-643; published ahead of print July 12, 2016, doi:10.5465/amle.2016.0207
    ...poetry reading in the English Department. After the reading, ask them to compare and contrast what they learned about how poets use language with how language is used by their favorite management scholar-including any of the contributors to this book. Listen carefully to your students' feedback. All ~~~
     
    28.  Essays, Dialogues & Interviews
    • Christopher Michaelson
    A Novel Approach to Business Ethics Education: Exploring How to Live and Work in the 21st Century ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2016 15:3 588-606; published ahead of print June 19, 2015, doi:10.5465/amle.2014.0129
    ...poetry are universals. Somewhat paradoxically, thevery relevanceof fictionalnarrative to real life depends upon its fictitiousness, opening up possibilities for readers to imagine, contemplate, and bring fictional things into analogywith real ones. The ability to pretend is obvious and observable in ~~~
     
    29. Essays, Dialogues, & Interviews
    • Joel M. Podolny
    A Conversation With James G. March on Learning About Leadership ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2011 10:3 502-506; doi:10.5465/amle.2011.0003 
    ...poetry side of leadership-the understanding of the deeper dilemmas of leadership in our society. These include such issues as the relation between public life and private life, the balance between diversity and unity, the role of gender and sex in leadership, and the justification of great action. T ~~~
     
    30. From the Editors 
    • Siri Terjesen and
    • Diamanto Politis
    From the Editors: In Praise of Multidisciplinary Scholarship and the Polymath ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU June 2015 14:2 151-157; doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0089 
    ...poetry Medical texts, liturgical songs, plays, poems, visionary theological texts Luca Luigi Cavalli-Sforza (1922–present) Genetics, geographic migration patterns Estimation of human species populations' evolutionary trees based on genetics and migration; Cultural transmission across societies Herbe ~~~
     
    31.  Research 
    • Paul Hibbert,
    • Nic Beech,
    • and Frank Siedlok
    Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU amle.2015.0243; published ahead of print February 20, 2017, doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0243
    ...this essay to the memory of Alex Danchev (August 26, 1955 - August 7, 2016), a brilliant interdisciplinary and interpretive scholar of art, history and politics, whose recent passing is a tragedy for many disciplines and intellectual discourse in general. Page 1 of 53 Academy of Management Learning ~~~
     
    32. Organizing through Empathy
    Edited by  Kathryn Pavlovich , Edited by  Keiko Krahnke
     
    Empathy dissolves the boundaries between self and others, and feelings of altruism towards others are activated. This process results in more compassionate and caring contexts, as well as helping others in times of suffering. This book provides evidence from neuroscience and quantum physics that it is empathy that connects humanity, and that this awareness can create a more just society. It extends interest in values-based management, exploring the intellectual, physical, ecological, spiritual and aesthetic well-being of organizations and society rather than the more common management principles of maximising profit and efficiency. This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society
     
    33. Art, 'Knowing' and Management Education
    First Published April 1, 2008 Research Article
    Abstract
    This article explores the concept of knowledge as an internal process of inner knowing. In the educational context, we describe our experiences in using art in the classroom to assist our students in accessing this inner knowing. We describe the design and use of such creative expressions. Our findings indicate that students have to integrate both right- and left-brain thinking to access their inner tuition. This slows down linear thinking in order to access the more affective-based learning process. Further, it encourages students to experiment with non-linear methods of learning. We argue that these findings assist students in accessing more choices in their decision making, which in turn will build managers who energize, revitalize and facilitate the growth of humanity through organizational compassion and understanding.
     
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    From: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG> on behalf of Sargam Garg <sargam2006@GMAIL.COM>
    Reply-To: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 1:44 PM
    To: "MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources
     
    Dear Members,
     
    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.
     
    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.
     
    Happy holidays!
     
    -- 
    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    College of Business Administration
    Management and Organizations Area
    California State University, Sacramento
    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088
    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819
    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041
     

     




  • 4.  Request for ideas/resources

    Posted 12-13-2017 01:47

    Dear Sargam, 

     

    Really good to hear from you and know how you have felt about the MSR.  I hope you get involved whenever you can and will share your research and writing with MSR.  There are many in MSR who are very interested and want to learn much more from those who have this research interest of yours.

     

    I hope others on this list who are involved in art-based *organizational research, *organizational development, *leadership development, *management education, *organizational consulting, etc will add their ideas to your question on your original posting.

     

    Warm regards,

     

    Mary

     

     

     

     

     

    From: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG> on behalf of Sargam Garg <sargam2006@GMAIL.COM>
    Reply-To: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 10:22 PM
    To: "MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Subject: Re: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Thank you Mary and others for your response.

     

    Hi Mary,

     

    As a doctoral student at Rutgers I became a part of MSR community listserv years ago. I have been a passive member, more active in HR and OB divisions.

     

    After years now, I have to confess this community  always gave me a sense of  joy and security. I can't help but appreciate and be thankful to you for such a caring attitude. Your detailed email below will be a great help.  Being a poet myself,  seeing so much of work already linking business and poetry is very encouraging for me.

     

    Hopefully in times to come I will engage more with this group. 

     

    Regards

    Sargam

     

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

     

     

     



    On Dec 12, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Finney, Mary <finneym@OHIO.EDU> wrote:

     

    Dear Sargam,

     

    Love your question.  I just did a search – perhaps there is something here that might be of interest to you.  I look forward to what others will add to this.  

     

    I hope all will respond through this listserv so we can all benefit from the responses.

     

    Mary Finney

     

    Here is my search tonight on poetry and business:

     

    0. Articles 

    • Neal M. Ashkanasy

    SPECIAL SECTION: Art and Design in Management Education ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU December 1, 2006 5:4 484-485; doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.23473208

    ...on my desk of the first draft of the remarkable essay by Nancy Adler, The Arts &#38; Leadership: Now That We Can Do Anything, What Will We Do? I immediately recognized that this manuscript was not the usual stock-in-trade of academic journals. Here was a piece that seemed to be going beyond the usual ~~~

     

    Ralph Windle Management Decision Vol. 44, Iss. 4, 2006, pp. 457-463 

    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look again at the ideas set out in the author's 1994 anthology, The Poetry of Business Life . Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a large sample of poems on business themes by a variety of "professional" and "practising managerial" poets. It supplies a spontaneous, empirical first taxonomy (organised as "Cantos" in the eventual 1994 anthology) of the areas of "economic life" where the domains of "poetry" and "business" seem most to intersect. Such spontaneous classification yields important but mainly unsurprising "topic cells" (Cantos) – "Money", "Work", "Markets", "Corporate life", "Politics and power", "Technology" etc. – each requiring further research. The residue of less predictable themes, however, includes "Travel and movement" as an important but (by analysts) relatively neglected, obsessive source of metaphor and poetic focus. Findings – Across these "vertical" structures of topic and theme the paper points towards the more generic "lateral" implications for all of them of the differences between the "language of poetry" (evocation, relational) and the conventional "language of business" (information, measurement, separation). This is the author's main area of future interest. Originality/value – The paper confirms the need to pursue critical analysis of "business poetry" by the exacting criteria of poetry generally rather than merely as an esoteric, separate sub-category.

     

    Beth Hoger Business Communication Quarterly Vol. 75, Iss. 3, September 2012, pp. 291-300

    Poetry recitation removes the distractions of creating and organizing original material so that business students can focus on presentation skills of delivery, confidence, and memory. Delivery includes articulation, emphasis, nonverbals, and presence. Confidence and memory development are complementary. Confidence comes from trusting the memory and memory adds confidence. Memory is treated as a larger skill for business, not as a crutch for presenting. Rationale, resources, implementation and evaluation for this assignment are all detailed. 

     

    S. Brown; R. Wijland Business Horizons Vol. 58, Iss. 5, September - October, 2015, pp. 551-561 

    A poet, Wallace Stevens once said, makes silk dresses out of worms. What the great American modernist didn't reveal is the brand of silk dresses that worms weave so well. This article takes up where Stevens left off. It identifies the ways in which corporations can profit from poetry. It examines the fractious yet fruitful relationship between bards and brands. It notes the business background of several big, brand-name poets. And, illuminated by a recent instance of haiku hacktivism, it argues that poetry is an apt metaphor for branding in today's texting, tweeting, crowdsourced, co-created, there's-an-app-for-that world. Despite Stevens' subsequent contention that money is a kind of poetry, the article concludes that marketing's case is stronger still. 

     

    Allison M. Fraiberg Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 19, Iss. 3, September 2010, pp. 196-207 

    In the past two decades, management studies have made significant use of poetry both in research projects and teaching contexts. During the same time, numerous collections of poetry have appeared focusing on business life with contributions in particular by office workers. This article addresses the relationship between management research on poetry and the actual poetry in these ever more frequently appearing collections. Most work in management studies focuses on the form of poetry, rather than the content. By applying the concepts of "evoked knowledge" and "shared texts" from Antonio Strati's organizational aesthetics, the content themes are made visible. Persistent in these collections is the appearance of the related feelings of anger, rage, and despair. An interpretive exploration of relevant poems illustrates how this kind of analysis can contribute to a broader understanding of workplace-anger issues, one that fully and deeply incorporates the inner lives of workers. Less

    Keywords: workplace anger; poetry; organizational aesthetics; evoked knowledge

     

    Gail Whiteman Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 13, Iss. 3, September 2004, pp. 261-277 

    In this article, I utilize semifictional dialogue as a means of reflecting on my Ph.D. research on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Although my findings were ultimately published in The Academy of Management Journal, the research, defense, and publication process raised a number of interesting issues, including ambiguities and miscommunications that emerged when I tried to communicate and share my findings with academic and business audiences. These reflections are presented in a creative semifictional format that privileges the dialogical basis of Indigenous oral tradition and storytelling. By using this medium, I hope to deepen our understanding and appreciation of TEK as an interesting ecologically embedded approach to management and also to raise and reflect on the validity and implications of using this type of ethnographic representation within organizational research.

     

    Keywords: semifiction; ethnography; narrative; Indigenous peoples; traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)

     

    Soosan Daghighi Latham Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 23, Iss. 2, April 2014, pp. 123-132 

    The positivist tradition for studying leadership involves correlational analyses and manipulation of an independent variable to determine the effect on a dependent variable while holding all other variables constant. Despite voluminous empirical data, an understanding of leadership has remained elusive. This article proposes the convergence of an arts-informed qualitative research with positivist methodologies, opening up space for a nontraditional approach to understanding leadership that is storied, embodied, and participatory. The epistemological pluralism of arts-informed research, rooted in the literary, visual, and performing arts, generates possibilities for understanding the tacit personal worldview of culturally diverse leaders who, as the result of globalization and changing demographics, are reaching leadership positions. Through a process of reflexivity, knowledge of the particular, and shared meaning-making, this approach has the potential to inform scholarship by enabling researchers to tap into and appreciate emotional as well as cognitive processes that differentiate and explain the behavior of leaders.

     

    Keywords: leadership; qualitative research; cross-cultural; mixed methods; creativity

     

    Charlotte Cloutier Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 25, Iss. 1, January 2016, pp. 69-84 

    Although scores of articles and books have been written on what constitutes good writing in academia, we've granted far less attention to academic writing as a daily practice. Yet it is precisely because it is so taken-for-granted that writing as a practice needs to be explored, investigated, and questioned. In this article, I reflect on academic writing as a practice through conversations on writing with researchers in the fields of management and organization studies. By reflecting on the writing processes and practices of others, I offer a lens through which researchers-as-writers can examine their own writing practices, and by so doing, expand their personal repertoires of practices and approaches for producing meaningful texts. 

     

    Nancy J. Adler; Hans Hansen Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 21, Iss. 2, April 2012, pp. 128-139 

    Whatever we choose to do, the stakes are very high.David Whyte (1994, p. 298), poet Researching questions that matter demands passionate conviction. Whether recognized as such or not, such conviction, combined with profound compassion, defines true scholarship. Daring to care requires courage-the courage to speak out and to act. Courage transforms convictions and compassion into action. Thus, by its very nature, daring to care calls into question the traditional role of rigid scientific objectivity and invites advocacy to play a vital role within our scholarly tradition. In focusing on daring to care, this article raises questions that academia must ask itself in order to support scholars in rigorously researching and teaching about issues that matter. It provides examples of scholarship that have required courage, conviction, and compassion, including a case example where the outcome of appropriate methodology is literally life or death. Throughout the discussion, readers are invited to consider what supports their core convictions, compassion, and courageous action in their own scholarship, teaching, and advocacy.

     

    Keywords: courage; compassion; commitment; academic leadership; scholarship

     

    Soosan Daghighi Latham Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 23, Iss. 2, April 2014, pp. 123-132 

    The positivist tradition for studying leadership involves correlational analyses and manipulation of an independent variable to determine the effect on a dependent variable while holding all other variables constant. Despite voluminous empirical data, an understanding of leadership has remained elusive. This article proposes the convergence of an arts-informed qualitative research with positivist methodologies, opening up space for a nontraditional approach to understanding leadership that is storied, embodied, and participatory. The epistemological pluralism of arts-informed research, rooted in the literary, visual, and performing arts, generates possibilities for understanding the tacit personal worldview of culturally diverse leaders who, as the result of globalization and changing demographics, are reaching leadership positions. Through a process of reflexivity, knowledge of the particular, and shared meaning-making, this approach has the potential to inform scholarship by enabling researchers to tap into and appreciate emotional as well as cognitive processes that differentiate and explain the behavior of leaders.

     

    Keywords: leadership; qualitative research; cross-cultural; mixed methods; creativity

     

    Carolyn M. Plump; William Van Buskirk Journal of Management Education Vol. 39, Iss. 2, April 2015, pp. 297-304 

     

    Livia Kohn Journal of Daoist Studies Vol. 8, January 1, 2015, pp. 137-151 

      

    Robert H. Hogner Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 15, Iss. 1, January 1996, pp. 33-43 

    This is a story of the development of a community service for business education project in Florida International University's Business Environment Program. The Project, as it is called, had its practical origins in student involvement in community activism-type projects. Its theoretical foundation is found in the concept of increasing community discourse - following Dewey (1954) - as a vehicle for strengthening the business and society bond. Student community service projects are described including the largest group to evolve, a group dedicated to feeding Miami's homeless and taking the name the FIU Foodrunners. The Project is now in its third year with approximately five-hundred students per year working twenty-five hours per semester on community service projects. The community service requirement directly as a result of experiences with the Project has expanded beyond the Business Environment courses to offerings in other departments and is now part of a University-wide recently institutionalized structure designed to stimulate student community service efforts. Today was our third run, the third Sunday of waking up early. Now that I have been reading Aram and putting the pieces together, I can see how this concept of business and society comes together. 

     

    Ted Buswick; Clare Morgan; Kirsten Lange Journal of Business Strategy Vol. 26, Iss. 1, February 01, 2005, pp. 34-40 

    Purpose - To convey the findings of an investigation into the relationship between poetry and business thinking, which began with the hypothesis that regular reading and analysis of poetry and its levels of meaning, subtle verbal and nonverbal contextual nuances, emotional content, and required associative thinking will help people deal with ambiguity, delay closure on decisions, and result in more systemic thinking and in better business decisions. Findings - The research and workshops indicate that reading poetry can expand thinking space by enhancing associative thinking and access to preconceptual areas. Research limitation/implications - The findings are based on extensive interdisciplinary research and a small number of seminars and workshops. No formal studies have yet been conducted. Practical implications - This provides a way to open thinking spaces that may be often unused by the business strategist, and that can lead to better decisions. By focusing on how executives can refine their thinking abilities to take them beyond the ordinary limits of cause-and-effect approaches, encourages the application of those radical judgments that can help differentiate one organization from another. Originality/value - The authors believe they are the first to explore this relationship between reading poetry and business thinking.

     

    Keywords: Corporate strategy; Creative thinking; Decision making; Innovation; Management strategy; Poetry

     

    J. Andrew Morris; John Urbanski; Janice Fuller Journal of Management Education Vol. 29, Iss. 6, December 2005, pp. 888-904 

    This article presents a series of experiential exercises designed to use visual arts and poetry in classroom settings to increase students'awareness and recognition of emotion-two key components of emotional intelligence. Drawing on the liberal arts in the manner described in the exercises provides the instructor with a context in which students can examine emotions and also helps business faculty blend the skills and competencies students acquire during their studies in the liberal arts with career preparation the students receive in the traditional business administration curriculum.

     

    Keywords: emotional intelligence; emotions; poetry; arts; liberal education

     

    Allison M. Fraiberg Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 19, Iss. 3, September 2010, pp. 196-207 

    In the past two decades, management studies have made significant use of poetry both in research projects and teaching contexts. During the same time, numerous collections of poetry have appeared focusing on business life with contributions in particular by office workers. This article addresses the relationship between management research on poetry and the actual poetry in these ever more frequently appearing collections. Most work in management studies focuses on the form of poetry, rather than the content. By applying the concepts of "evoked knowledge" and "shared texts" from Antonio Strati's organizational aesthetics, the content themes are made visible. Persistent in these collections is the appearance of the related feelings of anger, rage, and despair. An interpretive exploration of relevant poems illustrates how this kind of analysis can contribute to a broader understanding of workplace-anger issues, one that fully and deeply incorporates the inner lives of workers.

     

    Keywords: workplace anger; poetry; organizational aesthetics; evoked knowledge

     

    Cynthia L. Krom; Satina V. Williams Journal of Accounting Education Vol. 29, Iss. 4, December, 2011, pp. 234-249 

    Low student motivation, apprehension and anxiety towards accounting, and diversity in learning styles are a few incentives for employing non-traditional tools for teaching introductory accounting courses. Three modes of storytelling – fairy tales, fables, and poetry – are used in financial and managerial accounting courses to enhance and assess student learning. We find the storytelling exercises give us good insight as to whether students genuinely understand course content. Students indicate that storytelling helps them to understand accounting concepts and make the course more fun. Assignment outcomes have been used at conferences and campus events and have generated conversations about accounting beyond business faculty. 

     

    Keywords: Introductory accounting; Creative writing; Formative assessment; Summative assessment; Liberal learning; Deep learning

     

    Tricia Joy Hiley Management Decision Vol. 44, Iss. 4, 2006, pp. 561-574 

    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reveal links between managers developing their reflective practice and the emergence of poetic expression in their writing. Design/methodology/approach – The author runs the Master's year of a university program that helps business leaders', managers, professionals and consultants develop their abilities for leading and managing major change projects using action research. She reflects back over the 12 years of the program and recognizes a link between the development of reflective practice and the emergence of poetry and, increasingly, poetic expression. Findings – At the same time as participants' actions are involving them in dynamically complex issues, working beyond events and into the forces that shape change, it is possible to reflect on what they are learning and how they might express it. As they slow down their thinking, become more reflective and inquire into the assumptions on which their actions are based, and then attempt to articulate this, they begin to experience the re-sounding of their own voices. For many, poetry emerges – in the margins – at the edge of what can be said in words. Practical implications – A major implication for universities and researchers is the realization that a shift from the non-participating "researcher" to the participating "I" is much more than grammatical. Each constitutes a different socially constructed world, uses a different language and is borne on a different voice. Originality/value – There is everyday, practical value in realizing that reflective practice and poetic expression are linked, and that expressing our "selves" in texts that are vital breathes life into our words and our actions in the world.

     

    18. What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond:

    • Danica Purg and
    • Ian Sutherland

    Why Art in Management Education? Questioning Meaning ACAD MANAGE REV April 2017 42:2 382-396; published ahead of print February 26, 2016, doi:10.5465/amr.2016.0047

    ...poetry of our land, from the national poet Dr. France Prešeren (1800–1849) to the young social "TheWhiteHorse Inn" isanoperettabyRalphBenatzkyand Robert Stolz, while "Mountain's Flower" was authored by Slovene composer Radovan Gobec. The performances referred to here featured the factory orchestra ~~~

     

    19.  What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?

    • Jean M. Bartunek and
    • Belle Rose Ragins

    Extending a Provocative Tradition: Book Reviews and Beyond at AMR ACAD MANAGE REV July 2015 40:3 474-479; published ahead of print February 10, 2015, doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0029

    ...poetry (1974, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2000). For example, he explored William Butler Yeats's poem "Easter, 1916" and, in the process, observed that "poetry is a natural medium for expressing and contemplating doubt, paradox, and contradiction-features of life, well-known to experienced managers, but ~~~

     

    20. What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?

    • Alexander Styhre

    What David Foster Wallace Can Teach Management Scholars ACAD MANAGE REV January 2016 41:1 170-183; published ahead of print August 21, 2015, doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0250

    ...poetry and prose and juridical matters, I would say that professional authors, otherwise publishingprimarily fiction-for example, novels, short stories, and plays-are remarkably underrated social commentators and archeologists of human culture and human relations. Literary and analytical qualities a ~~~

     

    21. Book Review 

    • Joep P. Cornelissen

    Portrait of an Entrepreneur: Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, and the Entrepreneurial Imagination ACAD MANAGE REV October 2013 38:4 700-709; published ahead of print March 5, 2013, doi:10.5465/amr.2013.0068

    ...poetry to astronomical discoveries (p. 761). In his own words, Jobs positioned himself at the interface of the humanities and technology. The intersection channeled his creativity, initially into changing the design and functionality of existing products that were already in use, and later on into c ~~~

     

    22. Patrick Reilly

    The Layers of a Clown: Career Development in Cultural Production Industries ACAD MANAGE DISCOVER June 2017 3:145-164; published ahead of print September 23, 2016, doi:10.5465/amd.2015.0160

    ...poetry readings alongside less-established writers to develop new material, maintain community membership, and integrate newer writers into their networks. Cornfield (2015) found that "enterprising artists" in Nashville remain consciously active in the local music scene to achieve greater artistic f ~~~

     

    23. hematic Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility

    • Donal Crilly,
    • Morten Hansen,
    • and Maurizio Zollo

    The Grammar of Decoupling: A Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective on Firms' Sustainability Claims and Stakeholders' Interpretation ACAD MANAGE J April 2016 59:2 705-729; published ahead of print December 22, 2015, doi:10.5465/amj.2015.0171

    ...poetry . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 99 : 549 – 571 . James W. 1976 . Essays in radical empiricism . Boston, MA : Harvard University Press .  Jay J. 2013 . Navigating paradox as a mechanism for change and innovation in hybrid organizations . Academy of Management Journal , 56 : 1 ~~~

     

    24. Jean M. Bartunek

    Academic-Practitioner Collaboration Need not Require Joint or Relevant Research: Toward a Relational Scholarship of Integration ACAD MANAGE J December 1, 2007 50:6 1323-1333; doi:10.5465/AMJ.2007.28165912 

    ...poetry (e.g., March, 1990, 2000). Nancy Adler, Keith Murnighan, Al Bluedorn, Denny Gioia, Mary Jo Hatch, and several others have presented exquisite art and photography. All of these expressions almost certainly enable communication with (and learning from) people beyond academia in ways that may we ~~~

     

    25.  Michael M. Harmon

    Business Research and Chinese Patriotic Poetry: How Competition for Status Distorts the Priority Between Research and Teaching in U.S. Business Schools ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU June 1, 2006 5:2 234-243; doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.21253789 

    ...poetry of dubious aesthetic merit, now produce research in prodigious quantities. Recent criticism of this preoccupation with research "output" has noted that too little of it is either widely read or comprehensible to a broader audience of readers, that the practical value of research is often mini ~~~

     

    26. Research

    Paul Hibbert, Nic Beech, and Frank Siedlok

    Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU amle.2015.0243; published ahead of print February 20, 2017, doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0243

    ...poetry to photography. For example: he engages with Don McCullin's well-known photograph of a shell-shocked marine (Danchev, 2011:35), a picture that immediately invites you into harrowing speculations; and he reflects on Kafka's fiction to illuminate Abu Ghraib and the 'War on Terror' (Danchev, 201 ~~~

     

    27.  Books & Resource Reviews

    • Robert Kramer

    Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2016 15:3 639-643; published ahead of print July 12, 2016, doi:10.5465/amle.2016.0207

    ...poetry reading in the English Department. After the reading, ask them to compare and contrast what they learned about how poets use language with how language is used by their favorite management scholar-including any of the contributors to this book. Listen carefully to your students' feedback. All ~~~

     

    28.  Essays, Dialogues & Interviews

    • Christopher Michaelson

    A Novel Approach to Business Ethics Education: Exploring How to Live and Work in the 21st Century ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2016 15:3 588-606; published ahead of print June 19, 2015, doi:10.5465/amle.2014.0129

    ...poetry are universals. Somewhat paradoxically, thevery relevanceof fictionalnarrative to real life depends upon its fictitiousness, opening up possibilities for readers to imagine, contemplate, and bring fictional things into analogywith real ones. The ability to pretend is obvious and observable in ~~~

     

    29. Essays, Dialogues, & Interviews

    • Joel M. Podolny

    A Conversation With James G. March on Learning About Leadership ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2011 10:3 502-506; doi:10.5465/amle.2011.0003 

    ...poetry side of leadership-the understanding of the deeper dilemmas of leadership in our society. These include such issues as the relation between public life and private life, the balance between diversity and unity, the role of gender and sex in leadership, and the justification of great action. T ~~~

     

    30. From the Editors 

    • Siri Terjesen and
    • Diamanto Politis

    From the Editors: In Praise of Multidisciplinary Scholarship and the Polymath ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU June 2015 14:2 151-157; doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0089 

    ...poetry Medical texts, liturgical songs, plays, poems, visionary theological texts Luca Luigi Cavalli-Sforza (1922–present) Genetics, geographic migration patterns Estimation of human species populations' evolutionary trees based on genetics and migration; Cultural transmission across societies Herbe ~~~

     

    31.  Research 

    • Paul Hibbert,
    • Nic Beech,
    • and Frank Siedlok

    Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU amle.2015.0243; published ahead of print February 20, 2017, doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0243

    ...this essay to the memory of Alex Danchev (August 26, 1955 - August 7, 2016), a brilliant interdisciplinary and interpretive scholar of art, history and politics, whose recent passing is a tragedy for many disciplines and intellectual discourse in general. Page 1 of 53 Academy of Management Learning ~~~

     

    32. Organizing through Empathy

    Edited by  Kathryn Pavlovich , Edited by  Keiko Krahnke

     

    Empathy dissolves the boundaries between self and others, and feelings of altruism towards others are activated. This process results in more compassionate and caring contexts, as well as helping others in times of suffering. This book provides evidence from neuroscience and quantum physics that it is empathy that connects humanity, and that this awareness can create a more just society. It extends interest in values-based management, exploring the intellectual, physical, ecological, spiritual and aesthetic well-being of organizations and society rather than the more common management principles of maximising profit and efficiency. This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society

     

    33. Art, 'Knowing' and Management Education

    First Published April 1, 2008 Research Article

    Abstract

    This article explores the concept of knowledge as an internal process of inner knowing. In the educational context, we describe our experiences in using art in the classroom to assist our students in accessing this inner knowing. We describe the design and use of such creative expressions. Our findings indicate that students have to integrate both right- and left-brain thinking to access their inner tuition. This slows down linear thinking in order to access the more affective-based learning process. Further, it encourages students to experiment with non-linear methods of learning. We argue that these findings assist students in accessing more choices in their decision making, which in turn will build managers who energize, revitalize and facilitate the growth of humanity through organizational compassion and understanding.

     

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    From: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG> on behalf of Sargam Garg <sargam2006@GMAIL.COM>
    Reply-To: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 1:44 PM
    To: "MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Dear Members,

     

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

     

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

     

    Happy holidays!

     

    -- 

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041

     

     

     



  • 5.  Request for ideas/resources

    Posted 12-12-2017 23:32
    Amazing, Mary!  All this from a search!  I skipped your beginning and thought you'd taught a course on it. What resources....

    And, as I mentioned directly to Sargam, remeber to include David Whyte's books and poetry, particularly http://www.davidwhyte.com/the-heart-aroused/ and on amazon same book https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Aroused-Preservation-Corporate-America/dp/0385423500/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

    Happy holidays! May you have warm times with friends!

    Kathryn


    On Dec 12, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Finney, Mary <finneym@ohio.edu> wrote:

    Dear Sargam,
     
    Love your question.  I just did a search – perhaps there is something here that might be of interest to you.  I look forward to what others will add to this.  
     
    I hope all will respond through this listserv so we can all benefit from the responses.
     
    Mary Finney
     
    Here is my search tonight on poetry and business:
     
    0. Articles 
    • Neal M. Ashkanasy
    SPECIAL SECTION: Art and Design in Management Education ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU December 1, 2006 5:4 484-485; doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.23473208
    ...on my desk of the first draft of the remarkable essay by Nancy Adler, The Arts &#38; Leadership: Now That We Can Do Anything, What Will We Do? I immediately recognized that this manuscript was not the usual stock-in-trade of academic journals. Here was a piece that seemed to be going beyond the usual ~~~
     
    Ralph Windle Management Decision Vol. 44, Iss. 4, 2006, pp. 457-463 
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look again at the ideas set out in the author's 1994 anthology, The Poetry of Business Life . Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a large sample of poems on business themes by a variety of "professional" and "practising managerial" poets. It supplies a spontaneous, empirical first taxonomy (organised as "Cantos" in the eventual 1994 anthology) of the areas of "economic life" where the domains of "poetry" and "business" seem most to intersect. Such spontaneous classification yields important but mainly unsurprising "topic cells" (Cantos) – "Money", "Work", "Markets", "Corporate life", "Politics and power", "Technology" etc. – each requiring further research. The residue of less predictable themes, however, includes "Travel and movement" as an important but (by analysts) relatively neglected, obsessive source of metaphor and poetic focus. Findings – Across these "vertical" structures of topic and theme the paper points towards the more generic "lateral" implications for all of them of the differences between the "language of poetry" (evocation, relational) and the conventional "language of business" (information, measurement, separation). This is the author's main area of future interest. Originality/value – The paper confirms the need to pursue critical analysis of "business poetry" by the exacting criteria of poetry generally rather than merely as an esoteric, separate sub-category.
     
    Beth Hoger Business Communication Quarterly Vol. 75, Iss. 3, September 2012, pp. 291-300
    Poetry recitation removes the distractions of creating and organizing original material so that business students can focus on presentation skills of delivery, confidence, and memory. Delivery includes articulation, emphasis, nonverbals, and presence. Confidence and memory development are complementary. Confidence comes from trusting the memory and memory adds confidence. Memory is treated as a larger skill for business, not as a crutch for presenting. Rationale, resources, implementation and evaluation for this assignment are all detailed. 
     
    S. Brown; R. Wijland Business Horizons Vol. 58, Iss. 5, September - October, 2015, pp. 551-561 
    A poet, Wallace Stevens once said, makes silk dresses out of worms. What the great American modernist didn't reveal is the brand of silk dresses that worms weave so well. This article takes up where Stevens left off. It identifies the ways in which corporations can profit from poetry. It examines the fractious yet fruitful relationship between bards and brands. It notes the business background of several big, brand-name poets. And, illuminated by a recent instance of haiku hacktivism, it argues that poetry is an apt metaphor for branding in today's texting, tweeting, crowdsourced, co-created, there's-an-app-for-that world. Despite Stevens' subsequent contention that money is a kind of poetry, the article concludes that marketing's case is stronger still. 
     
    Allison M. Fraiberg Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 19, Iss. 3, September 2010, pp. 196-207 
    In the past two decades, management studies have made significant use of poetry both in research projects and teaching contexts. During the same time, numerous collections of poetry have appeared focusing on business life with contributions in particular by office workers. This article addresses the relationship between management research on poetry and the actual poetry in these ever more frequently appearing collections. Most work in management studies focuses on the form of poetry, rather than the content. By applying the concepts of "evoked knowledge" and "shared texts" from Antonio Strati's organizational aesthetics, the content themes are made visible. Persistent in these collections is the appearance of the related feelings of anger, rage, and despair. An interpretive exploration of relevant poems illustrates how this kind of analysis can contribute to a broader understanding of workplace-anger issues, one that fully and deeply incorporates the inner lives of workers. Less
    Keywords: workplace anger; poetry; organizational aesthetics; evoked knowledge
     
    Gail Whiteman Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 13, Iss. 3, September 2004, pp. 261-277 
    In this article, I utilize semifictional dialogue as a means of reflecting on my Ph.D. research on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Although my findings were ultimately published in The Academy of Management Journal, the research, defense, and publication process raised a number of interesting issues, including ambiguities and miscommunications that emerged when I tried to communicate and share my findings with academic and business audiences. These reflections are presented in a creative semifictional format that privileges the dialogical basis of Indigenous oral tradition and storytelling. By using this medium, I hope to deepen our understanding and appreciation of TEK as an interesting ecologically embedded approach to management and also to raise and reflect on the validity and implications of using this type of ethnographic representation within organizational research.
     
    Keywords: semifiction; ethnography; narrative; Indigenous peoples; traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
     
    Soosan Daghighi Latham Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 23, Iss. 2, April 2014, pp. 123-132 
    The positivist tradition for studying leadership involves correlational analyses and manipulation of an independent variable to determine the effect on a dependent variable while holding all other variables constant. Despite voluminous empirical data, an understanding of leadership has remained elusive. This article proposes the convergence of an arts-informed qualitative research with positivist methodologies, opening up space for a nontraditional approach to understanding leadership that is storied, embodied, and participatory. The epistemological pluralism of arts-informed research, rooted in the literary, visual, and performing arts, generates possibilities for understanding the tacit personal worldview of culturally diverse leaders who, as the result of globalization and changing demographics, are reaching leadership positions. Through a process of reflexivity, knowledge of the particular, and shared meaning-making, this approach has the potential to inform scholarship by enabling researchers to tap into and appreciate emotional as well as cognitive processes that differentiate and explain the behavior of leaders.
     
    Keywords: leadership; qualitative research; cross-cultural; mixed methods; creativity
     
    Charlotte Cloutier Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 25, Iss. 1, January 2016, pp. 69-84 
    Although scores of articles and books have been written on what constitutes good writing in academia, we've granted far less attention to academic writing as a daily practice. Yet it is precisely because it is so taken-for-granted that writing as a practice needs to be explored, investigated, and questioned. In this article, I reflect on academic writing as a practice through conversations on writing with researchers in the fields of management and organization studies. By reflecting on the writing processes and practices of others, I offer a lens through which researchers-as-writers can examine their own writing practices, and by so doing, expand their personal repertoires of practices and approaches for producing meaningful texts. 
     
    Nancy J. Adler; Hans Hansen Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 21, Iss. 2, April 2012, pp. 128-139 
    Whatever we choose to do, the stakes are very high.David Whyte (1994, p. 298), poet Researching questions that matter demands passionate conviction. Whether recognized as such or not, such conviction, combined with profound compassion, defines true scholarship. Daring to care requires courage-the courage to speak out and to act. Courage transforms convictions and compassion into action. Thus, by its very nature, daring to care calls into question the traditional role of rigid scientific objectivity and invites advocacy to play a vital role within our scholarly tradition. In focusing on daring to care, this article raises questions that academia must ask itself in order to support scholars in rigorously researching and teaching about issues that matter. It provides examples of scholarship that have required courage, conviction, and compassion, including a case example where the outcome of appropriate methodology is literally life or death. Throughout the discussion, readers are invited to consider what supports their core convictions, compassion, and courageous action in their own scholarship, teaching, and advocacy.
     
    Keywords: courage; compassion; commitment; academic leadership; scholarship
     
    Soosan Daghighi Latham Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 23, Iss. 2, April 2014, pp. 123-132 
    The positivist tradition for studying leadership involves correlational analyses and manipulation of an independent variable to determine the effect on a dependent variable while holding all other variables constant. Despite voluminous empirical data, an understanding of leadership has remained elusive. This article proposes the convergence of an arts-informed qualitative research with positivist methodologies, opening up space for a nontraditional approach to understanding leadership that is storied, embodied, and participatory. The epistemological pluralism of arts-informed research, rooted in the literary, visual, and performing arts, generates possibilities for understanding the tacit personal worldview of culturally diverse leaders who, as the result of globalization and changing demographics, are reaching leadership positions. Through a process of reflexivity, knowledge of the particular, and shared meaning-making, this approach has the potential to inform scholarship by enabling researchers to tap into and appreciate emotional as well as cognitive processes that differentiate and explain the behavior of leaders.
     
    Keywords: leadership; qualitative research; cross-cultural; mixed methods; creativity
     
    Carolyn M. Plump; William Van Buskirk Journal of Management Education Vol. 39, Iss. 2, April 2015, pp. 297-304 
     
    Livia Kohn Journal of Daoist Studies Vol. 8, January 1, 2015, pp. 137-151 
      
    Robert H. Hogner Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 15, Iss. 1, January 1996, pp. 33-43 
    This is a story of the development of a community service for business education project in Florida International University's Business Environment Program. The Project, as it is called, had its practical origins in student involvement in community activism-type projects. Its theoretical foundation is found in the concept of increasing community discourse - following Dewey (1954) - as a vehicle for strengthening the business and society bond. Student community service projects are described including the largest group to evolve, a group dedicated to feeding Miami's homeless and taking the name the FIU Foodrunners. The Project is now in its third year with approximately five-hundred students per year working twenty-five hours per semester on community service projects. The community service requirement directly as a result of experiences with the Project has expanded beyond the Business Environment courses to offerings in other departments and is now part of a University-wide recently institutionalized structure designed to stimulate student community service efforts. Today was our third run, the third Sunday of waking up early. Now that I have been reading Aram and putting the pieces together, I can see how this concept of business and society comes together. 
     
    Ted Buswick; Clare Morgan; Kirsten Lange Journal of Business Strategy Vol. 26, Iss. 1, February 01, 2005, pp. 34-40 
    Purpose - To convey the findings of an investigation into the relationship between poetry and business thinking, which began with the hypothesis that regular reading and analysis of poetry and its levels of meaning, subtle verbal and nonverbal contextual nuances, emotional content, and required associative thinking will help people deal with ambiguity, delay closure on decisions, and result in more systemic thinking and in better business decisions. Findings - The research and workshops indicate that reading poetry can expand thinking space by enhancing associative thinking and access to preconceptual areas. Research limitation/implications - The findings are based on extensive interdisciplinary research and a small number of seminars and workshops. No formal studies have yet been conducted. Practical implications - This provides a way to open thinking spaces that may be often unused by the business strategist, and that can lead to better decisions. By focusing on how executives can refine their thinking abilities to take them beyond the ordinary limits of cause-and-effect approaches, encourages the application of those radical judgments that can help differentiate one organization from another. Originality/value - The authors believe they are the first to explore this relationship between reading poetry and business thinking.
     
    Keywords: Corporate strategy; Creative thinking; Decision making; Innovation; Management strategy; Poetry
     
    J. Andrew Morris; John Urbanski; Janice Fuller Journal of Management Education Vol. 29, Iss. 6, December 2005, pp. 888-904 
    This article presents a series of experiential exercises designed to use visual arts and poetry in classroom settings to increase students'awareness and recognition of emotion-two key components of emotional intelligence. Drawing on the liberal arts in the manner described in the exercises provides the instructor with a context in which students can examine emotions and also helps business faculty blend the skills and competencies students acquire during their studies in the liberal arts with career preparation the students receive in the traditional business administration curriculum.
     
    Keywords: emotional intelligence; emotions; poetry; arts; liberal education
     
    Allison M. Fraiberg Journal of Management Inquiry Vol. 19, Iss. 3, September 2010, pp. 196-207 
    In the past two decades, management studies have made significant use of poetry both in research projects and teaching contexts. During the same time, numerous collections of poetry have appeared focusing on business life with contributions in particular by office workers. This article addresses the relationship between management research on poetry and the actual poetry in these ever more frequently appearing collections. Most work in management studies focuses on the form of poetry, rather than the content. By applying the concepts of "evoked knowledge" and "shared texts" from Antonio Strati's organizational aesthetics, the content themes are made visible. Persistent in these collections is the appearance of the related feelings of anger, rage, and despair. An interpretive exploration of relevant poems illustrates how this kind of analysis can contribute to a broader understanding of workplace-anger issues, one that fully and deeply incorporates the inner lives of workers.
     
    Keywords: workplace anger; poetry; organizational aesthetics; evoked knowledge
     
    Cynthia L. Krom; Satina V. Williams Journal of Accounting Education Vol. 29, Iss. 4, December, 2011, pp. 234-249 
    Low student motivation, apprehension and anxiety towards accounting, and diversity in learning styles are a few incentives for employing non-traditional tools for teaching introductory accounting courses. Three modes of storytelling – fairy tales, fables, and poetry – are used in financial and managerial accounting courses to enhance and assess student learning. We find the storytelling exercises give us good insight as to whether students genuinely understand course content. Students indicate that storytelling helps them to understand accounting concepts and make the course more fun. Assignment outcomes have been used at conferences and campus events and have generated conversations about accounting beyond business faculty. 
     
    Keywords: Introductory accounting; Creative writing; Formative assessment; Summative assessment; Liberal learning; Deep learning
     
    Tricia Joy Hiley Management Decision Vol. 44, Iss. 4, 2006, pp. 561-574 
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reveal links between managers developing their reflective practice and the emergence of poetic expression in their writing. Design/methodology/approach – The author runs the Master's year of a university program that helps business leaders', managers, professionals and consultants develop their abilities for leading and managing major change projects using action research. She reflects back over the 12 years of the program and recognizes a link between the development of reflective practice and the emergence of poetry and, increasingly, poetic expression. Findings – At the same time as participants' actions are involving them in dynamically complex issues, working beyond events and into the forces that shape change, it is possible to reflect on what they are learning and how they might express it. As they slow down their thinking, become more reflective and inquire into the assumptions on which their actions are based, and then attempt to articulate this, they begin to experience the re-sounding of their own voices. For many, poetry emerges – in the margins – at the edge of what can be said in words. Practical implications – A major implication for universities and researchers is the realization that a shift from the non-participating "researcher" to the participating "I" is much more than grammatical. Each constitutes a different socially constructed world, uses a different language and is borne on a different voice. Originality/value – There is everyday, practical value in realizing that reflective practice and poetic expression are linked, and that expressing our "selves" in texts that are vital breathes life into our words and our actions in the world.
     
    18. What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond:
    • Danica Purg and
    • Ian Sutherland
    Why Art in Management Education? Questioning Meaning ACAD MANAGE REV April 2017 42:2 382-396; published ahead of print February 26, 2016, doi:10.5465/amr.2016.0047
    ...poetry of our land, from the national poet Dr. France Prešeren (1800–1849) to the young social "TheWhiteHorse Inn" isanoperettabyRalphBenatzkyand Robert Stolz, while "Mountain's Flower" was authored by Slovene composer Radovan Gobec. The performances referred to here featured the factory orchestra ~~~
     
    19.  What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?
    • Jean M. Bartunek and
    • Belle Rose Ragins
    Extending a Provocative Tradition: Book Reviews and Beyond at AMR ACAD MANAGE REV July 2015 40:3 474-479; published ahead of print February 10, 2015, doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0029
    ...poetry (1974, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2000). For example, he explored William Butler Yeats's poem "Easter, 1916" and, in the process, observed that "poetry is a natural medium for expressing and contemplating doubt, paradox, and contradiction-features of life, well-known to experienced managers, but ~~~
     
    20. What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?
    • Alexander Styhre
    What David Foster Wallace Can Teach Management Scholars ACAD MANAGE REV January 2016 41:1 170-183; published ahead of print August 21, 2015, doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0250
    ...poetry and prose and juridical matters, I would say that professional authors, otherwise publishingprimarily fiction-for example, novels, short stories, and plays-are remarkably underrated social commentators and archeologists of human culture and human relations. Literary and analytical qualities a ~~~
     
    21. Book Review 
    • Joep P. Cornelissen
    Portrait of an Entrepreneur: Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, and the Entrepreneurial Imagination ACAD MANAGE REV October 2013 38:4 700-709; published ahead of print March 5, 2013, doi:10.5465/amr.2013.0068
    ...poetry to astronomical discoveries (p. 761). In his own words, Jobs positioned himself at the interface of the humanities and technology. The intersection channeled his creativity, initially into changing the design and functionality of existing products that were already in use, and later on into c ~~~
     
    22. Patrick Reilly
    The Layers of a Clown: Career Development in Cultural Production Industries ACAD MANAGE DISCOVER June 2017 3:145-164; published ahead of print September 23, 2016, doi:10.5465/amd.2015.0160
    ...poetry readings alongside less-established writers to develop new material, maintain community membership, and integrate newer writers into their networks. Cornfield (2015) found that "enterprising artists" in Nashville remain consciously active in the local music scene to achieve greater artistic f ~~~
     
    23. hematic Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Donal Crilly,
    • Morten Hansen,
    • and Maurizio Zollo
    The Grammar of Decoupling: A Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective on Firms' Sustainability Claims and Stakeholders' Interpretation ACAD MANAGE J April 2016 59:2 705-729; published ahead of print December 22, 2015, doi:10.5465/amj.2015.0171
    ...poetry . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 99 : 549 – 571 . James W. 1976 . Essays in radical empiricism . Boston, MA : Harvard University Press .  Jay J. 2013 . Navigating paradox as a mechanism for change and innovation in hybrid organizations . Academy of Management Journal , 56 : 1 ~~~
     
    24. Jean M. Bartunek
    Academic-Practitioner Collaboration Need not Require Joint or Relevant Research: Toward a Relational Scholarship of Integration ACAD MANAGE J December 1, 2007 50:6 1323-1333; doi:10.5465/AMJ.2007.28165912 
    ...poetry (e.g., March, 1990, 2000). Nancy Adler, Keith Murnighan, Al Bluedorn, Denny Gioia, Mary Jo Hatch, and several others have presented exquisite art and photography. All of these expressions almost certainly enable communication with (and learning from) people beyond academia in ways that may we ~~~
     
    25.  Michael M. Harmon
    Business Research and Chinese Patriotic Poetry: How Competition for Status Distorts the Priority Between Research and Teaching in U.S. Business Schools ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU June 1, 2006 5:2 234-243; doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.21253789 
    ...poetry of dubious aesthetic merit, now produce research in prodigious quantities. Recent criticism of this preoccupation with research "output" has noted that too little of it is either widely read or comprehensible to a broader audience of readers, that the practical value of research is often mini ~~~
     
    26. Research
    Paul Hibbert, Nic Beech, and Frank Siedlok
    Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU amle.2015.0243; published ahead of print February 20, 2017, doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0243
    ...poetry to photography. For example: he engages with Don McCullin's well-known photograph of a shell-shocked marine (Danchev, 2011:35), a picture that immediately invites you into harrowing speculations; and he reflects on Kafka's fiction to illuminate Abu Ghraib and the 'War on Terror' (Danchev, 201 ~~~
     
    27.  Books & Resource Reviews
    • Robert Kramer
    Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2016 15:3 639-643; published ahead of print July 12, 2016, doi:10.5465/amle.2016.0207
    ...poetry reading in the English Department. After the reading, ask them to compare and contrast what they learned about how poets use language with how language is used by their favorite management scholar-including any of the contributors to this book. Listen carefully to your students' feedback. All ~~~
     
    28.  Essays, Dialogues & Interviews
    • Christopher Michaelson
    A Novel Approach to Business Ethics Education: Exploring How to Live and Work in the 21st Century ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2016 15:3 588-606; published ahead of print June 19, 2015, doi:10.5465/amle.2014.0129
    ...poetry are universals. Somewhat paradoxically, thevery relevanceof fictionalnarrative to real life depends upon its fictitiousness, opening up possibilities for readers to imagine, contemplate, and bring fictional things into analogywith real ones. The ability to pretend is obvious and observable in ~~~
     
    29. Essays, Dialogues, & Interviews
    • Joel M. Podolny
    A Conversation With James G. March on Learning About Leadership ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU September 2011 10:3 502-506; doi:10.5465/amle.2011.0003 
    ...poetry side of leadership-the understanding of the deeper dilemmas of leadership in our society. These include such issues as the relation between public life and private life, the balance between diversity and unity, the role of gender and sex in leadership, and the justification of great action. T ~~~
     
    30. From the Editors 
    • Siri Terjesen and
    • Diamanto Politis
    From the Editors: In Praise of Multidisciplinary Scholarship and the Polymath ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU June 2015 14:2 151-157; doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0089 
    ...poetry Medical texts, liturgical songs, plays, poems, visionary theological texts Luca Luigi Cavalli-Sforza (1922–present) Genetics, geographic migration patterns Estimation of human species populations' evolutionary trees based on genetics and migration; Cultural transmission across societies Herbe ~~~
     
    31.  Research 
    • Paul Hibbert,
    • Nic Beech,
    • and Frank Siedlok
    Leadership Formation: Interpreting Experience ACAD MANAG LEARN EDU amle.2015.0243; published ahead of print February 20, 2017, doi:10.5465/amle.2015.0243
    ...this essay to the memory of Alex Danchev (August 26, 1955 - August 7, 2016), a brilliant interdisciplinary and interpretive scholar of art, history and politics, whose recent passing is a tragedy for many disciplines and intellectual discourse in general. Page 1 of 53 Academy of Management Learning ~~~
     
    32. Organizing through Empathy
    Edited by  Kathryn Pavlovich , Edited by  Keiko Krahnke
     
    Empathy dissolves the boundaries between self and others, and feelings of altruism towards others are activated. This process results in more compassionate and caring contexts, as well as helping others in times of suffering. This book provides evidence from neuroscience and quantum physics that it is empathy that connects humanity, and that this awareness can create a more just society. It extends interest in values-based management, exploring the intellectual, physical, ecological, spiritual and aesthetic well-being of organizations and society rather than the more common management principles of maximising profit and efficiency. This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society
     
    33. Art, 'Knowing' and Management Education
    First Published April 1, 2008 Research Article
    Abstract
    This article explores the concept of knowledge as an internal process of inner knowing. In the educational context, we describe our experiences in using art in the classroom to assist our students in accessing this inner knowing. We describe the design and use of such creative expressions. Our findings indicate that students have to integrate both right- and left-brain thinking to access their inner tuition. This slows down linear thinking in order to access the more affective-based learning process. Further, it encourages students to experiment with non-linear methods of learning. We argue that these findings assist students in accessing more choices in their decision making, which in turn will build managers who energize, revitalize and facilitate the growth of humanity through organizational compassion and understanding.
     
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    From: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG> on behalf of Sargam Garg <sargam2006@GMAIL.COM>
    Reply-To: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 1:44 PM
    To: "MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources
     
    Dear Members,
     
    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.
     
    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.
     
    Happy holidays!
     
    -- 
    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    College of Business Administration
    Management and Organizations Area
    California State University, Sacramento
    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088
    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819
    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041
     

     




  • 6.  Request for ideas/resources

    Posted 12-13-2017 03:34

    Dear Sagram,

     

    At the moment, I am participating in a project that aims to develop art-based exercises for servant leadership development.

    http://www.artfulleader.eu/

     

    regards,

     

    Dirk van Dierendonck

     

     

    From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Sargam Garg
    Sent: 12 December 2017 19:44
    To: MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Dear Members,

     

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

     

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

     

    Happy holidays!

     

    --

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041

     

     



  • 7.  Request for ideas/resources

    Posted 12-13-2017 03:58
    Dear Sargam

    I did "Songs of Hope" with undergraduate students of my college 
    Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, India.
    Most of the songs are in Hindi. I would love to translate these for you in english,
    if that may help. 

    The songs did impress and influence - both the singers and the audiences-
    created a positive aura at the workplace, enhanced "feel good" factor
    and stimulated the students for doing good and perform better.
    I did this exercise off-the-cuff and thus have no empirical evidence.
    But that can be collected. 

    I often play inspiring instrumental music e.g. 'I have a Dream" in the class. I then ask the students 
    to write and share how they felt. My experience has been that it awakens the class and heightens
    their attention and willing participation in the classroom. 

    Best 

    Anand

    Anand Saxena 
    Associate Professor in Commerce 
    Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College 
    University of Delhi  


    On Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 2:16:25 pm GMT+5:30, Dirk van Dierendonck <dvandierendonck@RSM.NL> wrote:


    Dear Sagram,

     

    At the moment, I am participating in a project that aims to develop art-based exercises for servant leadership development.

    http://www.artfulleader.eu/

     

    regards,

     

    Dirk van Dierendonck

     

     

    From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Sargam Garg
    Sent: 12 December 2017 19:44
    To: MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Dear Members,

     

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

     

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

     

    Happy holidays!

     

    --

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041

     

     



  • 8.  Continuing from my (Anand Saxena's) earlier mail

    Posted 12-13-2017 04:02
    In the specific instance of business and strategy
    these songs 
    (a) heighten ethical awareness and willingness 
    (b) inspiring the students for thinking just and compassionate business spaces 
    (e.g. I often use the Nursery Rhyme Ba Ba Blacksheep to sensitize the students of business 
    toward the necessity of equitable businesses and equal spaces)

    Best 

    Anand 

    On Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 2:16:25 pm GMT+5:30, Dirk van Dierendonck <dvandierendonck@RSM.NL> wrote:


    Dear Sagram,

     

    At the moment, I am participating in a project that aims to develop art-based exercises for servant leadership development.

    http://www.artfulleader.eu/

     

    regards,

     

    Dirk van Dierendonck

     

     

    From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Sargam Garg
    Sent: 12 December 2017 19:44
    To: MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Dear Members,

     

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

     

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

     

    Happy holidays!

     

    --

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041

     

     



  • 9.  Continuing from my (Anand Saxena's) earlier mail

    Posted 12-13-2017 08:10
    Sargam,

    I sometimes play popular ballads for students. One of my favorites is a Ben Folds song called Fred Jones, part 2.  

    In the song, the aging Mr. Jones is being let go from work while all these young folks are "taking his place."

    It's emotional and it helps my younger students put themselves into the place of an older worker whose skills may be becoming obsolete and who may feel like he's losing his grip on his work, and the world in general. The line near the end .. "he's forgotten, but not yet gone" is really powerful. I have to hold back tears every time I play it. 

    With all these suggestions I wonder if there is need for an anthology of poetry and lyrics that could be pulled together for teaching business topics. This sounds like maybe a nice topic for the Academy Conference. I'd attend a session on this. 

    Tracy 

    Tracy Lambert Griggs, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    College of Business Administration
    516 Thurmond Building
    Winthrop University

    On Dec 13, 2017, at 4:13 AM, Anand Saxena <000000bdf3dfd5cf-dmarc-request@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG> wrote:

    In the specific instance of business and strategy
    these songs 
    (a) heighten ethical awareness and willingness 
    (b) inspiring the students for thinking just and compassionate business spaces 
    (e.g. I often use the Nursery Rhyme Ba Ba Blacksheep to sensitize the students of business 
    toward the necessity of equitable businesses and equal spaces)

    Best 

    Anand 

    On Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 2:16:25 pm GMT+5:30, Dirk van Dierendonck <dvandierendonck@RSM.NL> wrote:


    Dear Sagram,

     

    At the moment, I am participating in a project that aims to develop art-based exercises for servant leadership development.

    http://www.artfulleader.eu/

     

    regards,

     

    Dirk van Dierendonck

     

     

    From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Sargam Garg
    Sent: 12 December 2017 19:44
    To: MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Dear Members,

     

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

     

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

     

    Happy holidays!

     

    --

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041

     

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  • 10.  Continuing from my (Anand Saxena's) earlier mail

    Posted 12-13-2017 10:29
    Wow! Thank you.

    Sent from my iPhone

    On Dec 13, 2017, at 5:09 AM, Griggs, Tracy Lambert <griggst@WINTHROP.EDU> wrote:

    Sargam,

    I sometimes play popular ballads for students. One of my favorites is a Ben Folds song called Fred Jones, part 2.  

    In the song, the aging Mr. Jones is being let go from work while all these young folks are "taking his place."

    It's emotional and it helps my younger students put themselves into the place of an older worker whose skills may be becoming obsolete and who may feel like he's losing his grip on his work, and the world in general. The line near the end .. "he's forgotten, but not yet gone" is really powerful. I have to hold back tears every time I play it. 

    With all these suggestions I wonder if there is need for an anthology of poetry and lyrics that could be pulled together for teaching business topics. This sounds like maybe a nice topic for the Academy Conference. I'd attend a session on this. 

    Tracy 

    Tracy Lambert Griggs, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    College of Business Administration
    516 Thurmond Building
    Winthrop University

    On Dec 13, 2017, at 4:13 AM, Anand Saxena <000000bdf3dfd5cf-dmarc-request@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG> wrote:

    In the specific instance of business and strategy
    these songs 
    (a) heighten ethical awareness and willingness 
    (b) inspiring the students for thinking just and compassionate business spaces 
    (e.g. I often use the Nursery Rhyme Ba Ba Blacksheep to sensitize the students of business 
    toward the necessity of equitable businesses and equal spaces)

    Best 

    Anand 

    On Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 2:16:25 pm GMT+5:30, Dirk van Dierendonck <dvandierendonck@RSM.NL> wrote:


    Dear Sagram,

     

    At the moment, I am participating in a project that aims to develop art-based exercises for servant leadership development.

    http://www.artfulleader.eu/

     

    regards,

     

    Dirk van Dierendonck

     

     

    From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Sargam Garg
    Sent: 12 December 2017 19:44
    To: MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Dear Members,

     

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

     

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

     

    Happy holidays!

     

    --

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041

     

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    <~WRD000.jpg>


  • 11.  Continuing from my (Anand Saxena's) earlier mail

    Posted 12-13-2017 15:47

    Yes, thanks to all who are contributing to this discussion thread.  This is a great education for me too. I love this exchange of ideas --- let's keep it going.   

     

    I would encourage anyone who did not hear the 2016 - AOM Presidential Address by Debra Shapiro  - Making the Academy Full-Voice Meaningful ( see attachment)

    - click the link below  to watch the video of that presentation –

    ***  Share something here if you see how that presentation supports this interest in the topic Sargam initiated here.

     

    Presidential Address from Debra L. Shapiro at Academy of Management 2016 Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA

     

    In 2016

    Anaheim, CA

     

    Debra L. Shapiro
    University of Maryland
    71st President (2016)
    Ph.D., Northwestern University

     

    Video link below:

    http://aom.org/Multi-Media/Archives---2016-Annual-Meeting/2016-Presidential-Address.aspx

     

     

    Also in 2014 Debra was the Chair of the AOM Program and chose the Theme to be "Power of Words"   During the Sunday morning Presidential Program she introduce the Theme to the audience – (all those attending AOM) .   She started with a few words and then said the rest of your presentation would be in the form of POEM.   See the attachment of that POEM. 

     

     

     

    Academy of Management

    Our Vision: We inspire and enable a better world through our scholarship and teaching about management and organizations.

    Our Mission: To build a vibrant and supportive community of scholars by markedly expanding opportunities to connect and explore ideas.

     

    Three other Presidential Addresses you might like to review now:

     

    In 2017      

    AOM Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA

     

    Past President
    Anita M. McGahan
    University of Toronto
    72nd President (2016-17)
    Ph.D., Harvard University

    Video link below:

    http://aom.org/Multi-Media/2017-Annual-Meeting/2017-Presidential-Address.aspx

     

     

    In 2015

    Paul S. Adler, President (2015)

    Paul S. Adler
    University of Southern California
    70th President (2014)
    Ph.D., University of Picardie

    Presidential Address: Our Teaching Mission

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Video link below:

    http://aom.org/Multi-Media/Archives---2015-Annual-Meeting/2015-Annual-Meeting-Presidential-Address.aspx

     

    IN 2010

    James P. (Jim) Walsh
    University of Michigan
    65th President
    2010
    BA, State University Of New York At Albany
    MA, University Of Chicago; MA, Columbia University
    PhD, Northwestern University

    Presidential Address: Embracing the Sacred in our Secular Scholarly World, Academy of Management Review, Volume 36, Number 2, April 2011

     

     

     

    From: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG> on behalf of Sargam <sargam2006@GMAIL.COM>
    Reply-To: "Management, Spirituality & Religion" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 10:29 AM
    To: "MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG" <MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG>
    Subject: Re: Continuing from my (Anand Saxena's) earlier mail

     

    Wow! Thank you.

    Sent from my iPhone


    On Dec 13, 2017, at 5:09 AM, Griggs, Tracy Lambert <griggst@WINTHROP.EDU> wrote:

    Sargam,

     

    I sometimes play popular ballads for students. One of my favorites is a Ben Folds song called Fred Jones, part 2.  

     

    In the song, the aging Mr. Jones is being let go from work while all these young folks are "taking his place."

     

    It's emotional and it helps my younger students put themselves into the place of an older worker whose skills may be becoming obsolete and who may feel like he's losing his grip on his work, and the world in general. The line near the end .. "he's forgotten, but not yet gone" is really powerful. I have to hold back tears every time I play it. 

     

    With all these suggestions I wonder if there is need for an anthology of poetry and lyrics that could be pulled together for teaching business topics. This sounds like maybe a nice topic for the Academy Conference. I'd attend a session on this. 

     

    Tracy 

    Tracy Lambert Griggs, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Management

    College of Business Administration

    516 Thurmond Building

    Winthrop University


    On Dec 13, 2017, at 4:13 AM, Anand Saxena <000000bdf3dfd5cf-dmarc-request@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG> wrote:

    In the specific instance of business and strategy

    these songs 

    (a) heighten ethical awareness and willingness 

    (b) inspiring the students for thinking just and compassionate business spaces 

    (e.g. I often use the Nursery Rhyme Ba Ba Blacksheep to sensitize the students of business 

    toward the necessity of equitable businesses and equal spaces)

     

    Best 

     

    Anand 

     

    On Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 2:16:25 pm GMT+5:30, Dirk van Dierendonck <dvandierendonck@RSM.NL> wrote:

     

     

    Dear Sagram,

     

    At the moment, I am participating in a project that aims to develop art-based exercises for servant leadership development.

    http://www.artfulleader.eu/

     

    regards,

     

    Dirk van Dierendonck

     

     

    From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Sargam Garg
    Sent: 12 December 2017 19:44
    To: MSR@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Request for ideas/resources

     

    Dear Members,

     

    Would you know of any work that links poetry and business in some way, specifically how poetry can impact students' understanding of business and strategy.

     

    Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

     

    Happy holidays!

     

    --

    Sargam Garg, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    College of Business Administration

    Management and Organizations Area

    California State University, Sacramento

    Tahoe Hall 2044, MS 6088

    6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

    sargam2006@gmail.com Tel: (412) 335 1041

     

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