Dear MSR Members and Friends:
Among the variety of promising Consortium, Professional Development Workshops, Symposiums, and Scholarly paper sessions, the Management, Spirituality, and Religion (MSR) Interest Group offers two linked events at the 2018 Academy of Management conference focused on the theme of "Improving lives”:
MSR & Friends
and
the Annual MSR Plenary: Improving lives - Experience, Compassion, Engagement.
The first scheduled event, MSR & Friends, will bring together members of the AOM community to share and explore current, near-term, and possible long-term joint efforts we might identify. Here, we will be taking up MSR instress: current and future prospects for cooperative engagement with other Divisions and Interest Groups (Session 759).
The next day is the Annual MSR Plenary. Together with the Distinguished Guest Speakers, MSR members and guests will focus on the inscape that characterizes our Academy Interest Group as three Distinguished Guest Speakers offer their witness on personal experience, compassion, and engagement for improving lives. We hope to introduce audience members to share their testimony, based on the results of a pre-conference survey. Other participants will of course be welcome, insofar as time permits (Session 996).
In this post, on behalf of the MSR Executive Committee, I am happy to introduce our
Distinguished Guest Speakers for the Annual MSR Plenary session. Soon there will be:
- an invitation to participate in a brief survey. Then,
- an update invitation to MSR & Friends. If you would like to suggest someone I should invite to this intra-AOM session, do send an email to the address below.
We hope to see you in Chicago. You can customize your Program plans today for these and other
MSR sessions.
Sincerely,
Charles T. Tackney
June 7, 2018
Copenhagen, Denmark
Email: cttack@gmail.com
https://my.aom.org/program2018/
Management, Spirituality, and Religion Distinguished Guest Speakers
The MSR Plenary Session: “Improving Lives: Experience, Compassion, Engagement”
Academy of Management Conference 2018
Monday, August 13th
9:45 am – 11:25 am, the Addison Marriott Ballroom
Payal Kumar, Ph.D.
Payal Kumar is Professor and Chair (HR) at BML Munjal University. She is the editor of several books and is also the Series Editor of Palgrave Studies in Leadership and Followership, consisting of 5 volumes on topics such as Servant Leadership and Authentic Leadership. Payal is a member of several editorial boards and is also Senior Reviewer of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Wiley.
Her transition to academics makes for an interesting narrative. Payal has lived in four countries (Zambia, Fiji, England and now in her adopted home - India). She has worked in four industries too. When she came to India from England in 2003, she described herself as a ‘starry-eyed journalist wanting to end poverty and suffering in India.’ She worked for a decade at the Hindustan Times in dangerous circumstances in the lawless state of Bihar, India, working closely with a network of women, child activists, and also eco-spiritualists.
Since then she joined the study abroad industry as Chief Editor, Princeton Review; and thereafter the book publishing industry as Vice President Editorial and Production at SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd. Her transition to academics took place recently when she completed her doctoral
at the age of 51 from XLRI, India (to the utter bewilderment of her two children). Her thesis was on the negative mentoring experiences of the protege, and she has over the years mentored hundreds of managers in the corporate sector.
Payal has a Master of Arts degree in Religious Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, England. She also partakes in pro bono activities for the mentally challenged, under the aegis of the Richmond Fellowship.
See more about Payal: https://www.bml.edu.in/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awB82cqF9bs .
David Korten, Ph.D.
David Korten is an international author, lecturer, engaged citizen, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, and a student of psychology, human organization, and ecological systems. He is co-founder and Board Chair emeritus of YES! Magazine, President of the Living Economies Forum, member of the Club of Rome, and author of several influential books, including the international bestselling When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. His other major books include: Change the Story, Change the Future; Agenda for a New Economy: A Living Economy for a Living Earth; Agenda for a New Economy: A Declaration of Independence from Wall Street; and The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism.
David has MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School. His current work centers on defining a system frame for and pathway to an Ecological Civilization grounded in a recognition that we are living beings born of and nurtured by a living Earth; money is just a number useful in facilitating exchange between strangers, not the purpose of human existence.
In his early career he served as a Captain in the US Air Force in assignments at the Special Airfare School and the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Harvard Business School Professor, Academic Dean of INCAE (the Central American Management Institute), a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, a visiting professor at the Asian Institute of Management, a Ford Foundation project specialist advising the world’s largest national population and family planning programs and Asia regional adviser on development management to the U.S. Agency for International Development. He lived and worked for 21 years as a development professional in Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Philippines, and Indonesia on a mission to end global poverty.
Visit him at: http://davidkorten.org. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Kathryn Pavlovich, Ph.D.
Kathryn Pavlovich is a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her teaching and research cover two main areas: developing conscious leaders and enterprise with purpose. Both involve the development of noetic wisdom (spirituality, reflexivity, mindfulness, empathy) for enhancing creativity, sustainable innovation and human flourishing. Kathryn is also interested in reflexive, art-based and embodied approaches to pedagogy that awaken the spirit.
She has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Venturing, International Small Business Journal and Tourism Management. Kathryn is a past Chair for the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group of the Academy of Management, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, Associate Editor for the Journal of Management Education and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business Ethics.
See more on: https://kpav.wordpress.com/ .