***Apologies for cross posting***
Dear Colleagues,
We kindly invite you to attend the following PDW session at the upcoming Academy of Management Meeting in Atlanta:
Navigating Interstitial Spaces as a Precondition for Leadership in Transformational Change
Scheduled: Friday, Aug 4 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM at Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Marquis M202
Coordinator: Mzamo P. Mangaliso, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Coordinator: Xueting Jiang, New York Institute of Technology
Discussant: Hugh O'Neill, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Participant: Robin Mark Back, U. of Central Florida
Participant: Charles C. Manz, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Participant: Leah Ndanga, UMass Amherst
Participant: Hellicy C. Ngambi, Mulungushi U.
Participant: Sylvia Van De Bunt-Kokhuis, U. of Amsterdam
Participant: Craig L. Pearce, MEF U.
Facilitator: Nceku Nyathi, UCT Graduate School of Business
The extant management literature affirms that to survive in the highly competitive, constantly evolving, and continuously globalizing contemporary environment, it is imperative for leaders of organizations to be able to successfully manage change. However, the theories and approaches to change management currently available are often contradictory and mostly supported by untested propositions and nuanced suggestions about the nature of organizational change management. Transformational leadership has been acknowledged to be a key factor in the successful management of organizational change. Effective transformation involves disengaging the organization from the current state of organizational stasis and shaping and challenging the prevailing norms. As this PDW will demonstrate, organizational change is implemented at a variety of levels and perspectives, transcending the traditional boundaries between organizational units and their environments. From an epistemological perspective, knowledge is a product of the social construction of the interaction of people across these boundaries all involved in a common endeavor. The tenets of participatory action research confirm that the best learning comes from experience, knowing comes from doing, from interaction. The idea of intersubjectivity extolls the virtues of thinking 'out there' in the interstitial space, instead of 'in here' within our unit. In response to the AOM 2017's clarion call to examine interstitial spaces, presenters in this PDW will share their research in this area through empirical observations, case studies, and theoretical discourse. Their plenary presentation will explore the challenges confronting management praxis in the context of individual, organizational, and broader socio-economic and political realities brought about by globality.
We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta soon.
Best,
Xueting
Xueting Jiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
School of Management, New York Institute of Technology