2018 ODC Division
Professional Development Workshops
Call for Proposals
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a proposal for a Professional Development Workshop for the 2018 AoM Annual Meeting.
Professional Development Workshop sessions will be held between 8am on Friday August 10th and 8pm Saturday August 11th, 2018, immediately prior to the AOM scholarly program.
A PDW provides Academy members with a unique opportunity for personal or professional development. Successful PDW proposals are highly interactive, create an engaging environment, provoke new ideas or learning, integrates cutting-edge scholarly or applied ideas, connects people and builds relationships, and encourages experimentation with new ideas, processes and practices. They should be inclusive and of interest to participants from a variety of backgrounds or perspectives around topics of mutual interest.
Though not required, we encourage PDW proposals that relate to the Annual Meeting theme. This year, the theme is "Improving Lives" and should be interpreted broadly. The theme encourages submissions that focus on the role that organizations may play to improve society by positively affecting the physical, psychological, social, and financial well-being of individuals, groups, communities, countries, regions or global society.
This year's theme is special relevance to the ODC Division, because it resonates with the values orientation of ODC-related scholarship and practice. Indeed, the ODC division is deeply committed to explore the fulfillment of humanity's spirit and potential and the creation of enduring global communities. We are deeply interested in the development of paradigms and methods that explore how to facilitate positive change in organizations. We encourage contributions that explore how to encourage well-being, flourishing, sustainability, justice and human dignity through organizational change processes.
In keeping with this theme, we especially encourage submissions from any scholars, regardless of membership in our division, who explore themes related to positive change that improves lives. For example, related domains of research include, but are not limited to positive social science (e.g. positive psychology, Positive Organizational Scholarship, etc.), social issues in management, critical management theory, gender and diversity, and more. Examples of related topics include leadership character, virtue ethics, organizational virtues (e.g. compassion, forgiveness, humanity, wisdom, mindfulness etc.), positive relationships at work, organizational energy, emotional contagion, social movements, among many others.
The theme thus encourages PDWs that address questions such as the following:
· From an interdisciplinary perspective, what implications for change are suggested by recent research in the fields and movements that explore the theme of "improving lives"?
· What leadership education practices facilitate the development of leadership who care about and are capable of improving lives through their influence?
· What change initiatives and practices hold great potential for improving lives at any level of the human experience (individual, group, organization, or society)?
· What are the necessary conditions that enable the flourishing and well-being that should be associated with improved life?
· What theoretical frames, concepts and models are most useful for understanding how to design processes that improve lives?
· What is the role of language in the construction of organizational activities or routines that improve lives?
· How might change practitioners integrate the perspectives on well-being that exist across disciplines and functions within an organization?
· What tensions, paradoxes, and contradictions play a role in how we understand and develop change process that improve lives?
· What research methods, both old and new, are especially appropriate for studying well-being, flourishing as the objectives of improved life?
Proposals for PDWs may address these or other issues that emanate from this year's AOM theme. They may also focus on issues that are unrelated to the theme, but that align with the ODC Division domain statement.
The ODC Division is broadly interdisciplinary; therefore, we especially encourage PDWs that will facilitate interactions between ODC practitioners, ODC academics and members of other divisions. We encourage proposals on research, teaching, and/or practice.
A doctoral consortium will be included in the program. In addition, we encourage the organizers of past, successful PDWs to again submit PDWs for 2019.
PDW proposals may only be submitted to one (primary) Division, however, we encourage PDW proposals that may be co-sponsored by other divisions or interest groups. Each potential sponsor should be listed on the proposal. Any co-sponsors will be determined after the submission is accepted.
The submission deadline is January 9th, 2018, 5pm ET (NY Time). Early submissions are strongly advised. Please review the submission instructions before preparing your proposal.
If you have any questions, or if you would like to discuss a possible proposal idea, please contact the ODC PDW Program Chair, David Bright at brightds.odc@gmail.com before December 9th, 2017.