Please join us for our Professional Development Workshop
Value Creation with the Humanistic Mission of 'People for People'
Friday, August 3, 2012, 2:45-4:45 PM, Room 301 Boston Hynes Convention Center
We invite scholars to this Professional Development Workshop, which is sponsored by the Business Policy & Strategy (BPS), Human Resources (HR), and Social Issues in Management (SIM) Divisions of the Academy of Management to share insights for research that contributes to new kinds of curricula for future leaders. During the last several years we have experienced substantial changes in both business and society. A few key examples illustrate these changes: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; the nuclear catastrophe in Japan; the ongoing debt crisis in Europe; and social movements, such as "Occupy Wall Street," which have spread around the globe. All these incidents show that it is not simply single actors who are salient, but rather networks of actors. This interconnectedness is the critical feature of today's reality. Value creation takes place between firms and stakeholders in networks to achieve greater service to society. Such networks of value creation encompass the boundary of sectors (economic, political, and societal) as well as the degree of institutionalization (formal and informal).
This Professional Development Workshop is based on the insights we gained at our caucus session at the 2011 Academy of Management. The focus of this caucus was to assess whether there is sufficient interest in the core challenge of nurturing humanism in management education. The shared understanding of the participants was that generally our models are rather de-peopled from a research perspective. Therefore, we need to bring people back in both for research and teaching. "People for People" describes the humanistic mission of all management: human beings helping others. Panelists include: Tom Donaldson (University of Pennsylvania), Ed Freeman (University of Virginia), Joseph Mahoney (University of Illinois), Robert Phillips (University of Richmond), James Post (Boston University), Sybille Sachs (University of Applied Sciences Zurich), and Sandra Waddock (Boston College).
We are looking forward to see you there.
Joseph Mahoney (University of Illinois) and Sybille Sachs (University of Applied Sciences Zurich)