Diary

Article Type: Diary From: Strategic Direction, Volume 25, Issue 7

Web site: meeting.aomonline.org /2009/ Contact: Jel Hampson. E-mail: registration@aom.pace.edu

Academy of Management – Green Management Matters

7-11 August 2009, Chicago, Illinois, USA

The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management will be held on August 7-11 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference theme, Green Management Matters,encourages us to consider how our ongoing scholarly activities-including teaching, research and service – might shape and be shaped by society’s increasing concern about responsible stewardship of the natural environment.

Web site: www.benchmark forbusiness.com/event14 .asp Contact: Benchmark For Business. Tel: +44 (0)1224 636200. Fax: +44 (0)1224 636030. E-mail: team@benchmarkforbusiness.com

The Science of Success: The Reasons Behind Exceptional Leadership and Achievement

15 September 2009, University Place, Manchester, UK

Making rare UK appearances, revered management thinkers and best selling authors, Daniel Goleman and Malcolm Gladwell, will challenge your traditional perceptions of leadership and success.

Malcolm Gladwell will take delegates on a journey through the world of“outliers” – the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He will ask a fundamental question: what makes high-achievers different?

Gladwell will consider a redefinition of what success actually means, how to identify and nurture talent within organisations and help leaders to source and hire better people as well as present insights and the tools to reach one’s full potential.

In these challenging economic times, Dr Goleman will explain how leaders can help their teams deal with a changing marketplace and build and sustain the enthusiasm and commitment they need to succeed. He will show delegates how to harness and develop emotional and social intelligence to improve their organisations’ performance.

Web site: bam.ac.uk/conference2009/ Contact: Beatriz Castel Arles. E-mail: bcarles@bam.ac.uk

British Academy of Management Conference. The End of the Pier? Competing Perspectives on the Challenges Facing Business and Management

15-17 September 2009. Brighton, UK

The emergence of powerful new countries in the global economy, the onset of environmental concerns like global warming, and the outbreak of corporate scandals and financial crises, all point towards the need for a new agenda to challenge managers and business. Arguably, however, the Academy is in danger of barely addressing these major issues, and is failing to help governments,businesses, lobby groups and non-governmental organizations alike in thinking about how they might be addressed.

Major challenges confront us in helping to develop new business philosophies and models that are capable of addressing these imperatives. While some exciting and controversial initiatives are emerging – like “micro-financing”to stimulate small businesses, and marketing to the needs of the poorest parts of society at the so-called “base of the pyramid” – we believe that such ideas represent only the tip of the iceberg of new perspectives that are possible. There is a need for a robust response to the groundswell of opinion calling for businesses – and the managers within them – to act more honestly, take greater responsibility for dealing with problems, and to develop novel approaches to them. This thirst for change is reflected in calls for a new type of selfless business leader, capable of restoring integrity and tackling intractable organizational, social and political issues.

For the Academy to rise to these new challenges, stimulate debate, and forge new agendas, it will be essential to harness competing perspectives that draw on both existing as well as new scholarly work. In Brighton, the venue for the BAM 2009 Conference, this emphasis on resilience and rejuvenation is reflected in the constant destruction and reconstruction of our piers, which symbolise our aim to use competing perspectives as lenses on the challenges facing business and management. So, whether your interest is focused on theory or practice, or an approach to a specific area like leadership, accountability, “whistle blowing”, or sustainability – we invite you to Brighton to play your part in engaging the Academy in the critical challenges facing the management community.