Dear Academy colleagues,
I would like to invite you to a roundtable that we will be organize during the upcoming Academy meeting. Friday, Aug 6 2010 3:00PM - 5:30PM at Le Palais Des Congres in 510B.
Competences and Organizational Learning: A Roundtable Discussion
Organizational Learning
Presenters:
* Methodological Approach – Ylenia CURZI ( University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
* Human Resources Management – Rosana SILVEIRA REIS (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Organization Behavior focus in Teams – Christine BALDY NGAYO (HEC Paris School of Management, France)
* Critical Management Studies - Alexandre FARIAS (FGV, Brazil)
* Diversity and Gender – Camilla QUENTAL (HEC Paris School of Management, France)
Given increased competitive pressures, globalization and the spread of information technology, the need for managing competences and organizational learning has recently increased. Not surprisingly, therefore, this issue has attracted the attention of both academics, involved in the development of theories to understand the phenomenon, and practitioners, concretely responsible for managing competences and organizational learning. An innovative starting point to address this topic is to take on a processual perspective on organization and organizational learning. The workshop proposes to conceptualize organization as an organizing process which develops according to bounded and intentional rationality. It further suggests considering Organizational Learning as the development of organizational competences which concern organizing processes’ regulation. In particular, it’s the development of the capability of an organizing process to structure its own continuous change. It’s also a reflection upon regulation, aiming at improving the attainment of organizing processes’ final outcomes, such as quality, effectiveness, efficiency, wellbeing. Accordingly, organizational learning makes organizational change possible; this latter is in turn an intrinsic property of organizing processes. The aim of the workshop is to foster reflection upon this theory of organizational learning and its implications for important professional domains such as research in organizations, Human Research Management, Organization Behaviour, Critical Management Studies and Diversity and Gender. To this end, the workshop will be organized in a roundtable in which the issues are addressed thorough five panellists’ presentations; and an integrative and interactive discussion among the participants.
Organizer: Rosana Silveira Reis; U. of Bologna - UNIBO
Organizer: Ylenia Curzi; U. of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Chair: Tommaso Maria Fabbri; U. of Modena and Reggio Emilia
I hope to see you there!
Rosana Silveira Reis
Department of Management Sciences
University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum
Via Capo di Lucca, 34 Bologna - Italy 40126
Phone:+39 338 9444092
Fax:+39 051 2098074
Email:
rosana.reis@unibo.it
Site: http://www.sa.unibo.it/