Dear AOM Friends:
You are cordially invited to attend our PDW: Toward Mindful Management: On Mental Models, Implicit Biases, and Spiritual Reflections.
Day|Time: Sunday, August 1st, 2:00pm - 4:00 pm PDT.
Link:
https://2021.aom.org/meetings/virtual/GMcezKTdcWRBZqADbThe societal concerns of our times are not new, but have become painfully amplified in light of a global pandemic that changed everything we used to take for granted. As the managers of our lives, and in every setting where we exert a supervisory role, we now have an opportunity to elevate our awareness and induce constructive change. This PDW assumes that all participants to the annual AOM conference are managers, whether pertaining to their own lives or to supervisory positions of others. The PDW will explore in an interactive mode, three phenomena that impact human interactions, and therefore also managerial decisions: mental models, implicit biases, and spiritual reflections. The first two concepts are interrelated, and will be briefly discussed at the beginning of the session, after which some existing examples of these concepts will be discussed, followed by a process of deliberation on spiritual models toward improvement through greater mutual respect, acceptance, and inclusion.We look forward to some great learning moments together.
With anticipation and gratitude,
Joan Marques, Christina Walker, Svetlana Holt, Susan Brownlee, Adam Wood, and Ayesha Sengupta.
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Joan Marques
Professor
Woodbury University
Burbank CA
joan.marques@woodbury.edu------------------------------