This conference has about 50 papers submitted and refereed for publication.
THe conference will be held on 20-22 Oct 2003 in Melbourne.
Last minute registrations are welcome for those who are interested in
attending to watch proceedings, but no further papers can be accepted. I
will extend the early-bird rates to members of this list if they register
within the next five days.
Details on the conference website: http://www.intergon.net/maaoe
Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA - 0411267256 - lboxer@xxxxxxxxxxx
Attend MAAOE 03 --- Melbourne --- 20-22 Oct 03
http://www.intergon.net/maaoe -- http://intergon.net/card
----------------------------------------------
In 1976 Michale Foucualt said: ... terrorism ... has a totally opposite
effect which is to make the bourgeois class even more closely attached to
its ideology ... (original in French) 'Le Savoir Comme Crime'
----------------------------------------------
>From: "Nigel Laurie" <nigel.laurie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "foucault@lists. village. virginia. edu"
><foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: CFP: Philosophy and Management Education
>Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:19:04 +0100
>
>Call for Papers
>
>FROM PHILOSOPHY TO MANAGEMENT AND BACK AGAIN? PHILOSOPHY AND THE EDUCATION
>OF MANAGERS
>
>University of Gloucestershire Business School, Cheltenham
>Thursday 20 November 2003 9.30 - 5.00 pm
>
>A 1-day seminar/workshop organised by the University of Gloucestershire
>Business School in association with Philosophy of Management (formerly
>Reason in Practice).
>
>AIMS AND APPROACH
>This informal event provides an opportunity for teachers, researchers,
>consultants and managers to:
>o Share experiences of the issues, challenges and approaches taken in
>enhancing the contribution of philosophy and philosophers to management
>education
>o Discover how others have worked through issues of common importance
>o Learn about resources that have proved to be valuable in bringing a
>philosophical dimension to management education
>o Review outcome studies completed or in progress
>o Consider follow up actions
>
>CONTRIBUTIONS
>
>We invite contributions in the form of brief paper presentations, poster
>presentations, demonstrations and workshops.
>
>Presentations should be supported with slides and/or handouts and last up
>to
>20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes allowed for discussion. Posters
>should be displayed on approximately 4-6 sheets of A3 paper. Workshops and
>demonstrations should last up to 75 minutes including discussion.
>
>If there is sufficient interest, Philosophy of Management will arrange
>publication of the conference materials in some form.
>
>Topics to be addressed could include the following:
>
>o Why do many in the field of management misperceive philosophy and
>philosophising: as anti-practice, ^Ñnegative^Ò, irrelevant, etc?
>o How can the misperceptions of philosophy and philosophising best be
>corrected?
>o How is philosophy being integrated into the management curriculum?
>o What curriculum designs and teaching strategies involving philosophy have
>proved successful with managers and student managers?
>o How can philosophers contribute in assessing values and assumptions and
>choosing goals and methods in management education and training?
>o What resources have proved useful in bringing a philosophical component
>to
>management education and training: texts, textbooks, film, video,
>psychometric and other instruments, cases, etc?
>o What philosophical methods have proved successful in helping managers
>philosophise agers e.g. communities of enquiry, Socratic dialogues?
>o Where can and should philosophy contribute to the management curriculum?
>o Who should teach or facilitate the philosophical contributions?
>
>This list is purely illustrative.
>
>TIMETABLE
>
>o Proposals with abstracts (250 words) - Due by Monday 20 October to Nigel
>Laurie, Philosophy of Management, 74a Station Road East, Oxted, Surrey, RH8
>0PG, UK or by email nigel.laurie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>o Feedback and acceptances - Notified by Friday 24 October
>o Master copy of presentation materials for issue to participants - Due by
>Friday 14 November. Word, RTF or PDF files if possible, to be sent to Sue
>Pearce at The University of Gloucestershire Business School, Pallas Villa,
>Park Campus, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 2QF or email spearce@xxxxxxxxxx
>o Workshop - Thursday 20 November
>
>SEMINAR PROGRAMME
>
>9.30 Registration and coffee
>10.00 Welcome address
>10.15 Session 1
>10.45 Session 2
>11.15 Session 3
>11.45 Poster viewing/Discussion
>12.00 Buffet lunch
>1.00 Session 4 Workshop demonstration: taking a philosophical approach to a
>management issue
>2.15 Session 5
>3.00 Tea/Coffee
>3.15 Session 6
>4.00 Plenary and panel discussion involving all speakers
>4.30 Close
>
>WORKSHOP CONVENORS
>
>Edward Kingsley Trezise
>University of Gloucestershire
>The Business School
>Broadlands Villa
>The Park
>Cheltenham
>Glos. GL50 2QF UK
>Email: etrezise@xxxxxxxxxx
>Tel: + 44 (0) 1242 543258
>Fax: + 44 (0) 1242 543327
>
>Nigel Laurie
>Editor and Publisher of Philosophy of Management
> Management Consultant and Chair of the Society for Philosophy in Practice
>74a Station Road East
>Oxted
>Surrey RH8 0PG UK
>Email: nigel.laurie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 1883 715419
>To discuss proposals or any aspect of the workshop please contact one of
>the
>above.
>
>REGISTRATION
>
>The seminar/workshop fee is £50, or £25 for full-time students. This price
>includes morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon tea/coffee and all papers.
>To book your place at the seminar, please complete the booking form
>attached
>to this email or visit http://online.glos.ac.uk/pom where the booking form
>is available to be downloaded.
>
>Travel/Accommodation
>For information on travel to The University of Gloucestershire and
>overnight
>accommodation, please visit
>http://online.glos.ac.uk/pom
>
>or contact Sue Pearce, Business Development Coordinator at the University
>of
>Gloucestershire by telephone on + 44 (0) 1242 544077 or via email
>spearce@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>RATIONALE
>
>Ever since Plato^Òs Socrates raised the question of how we should manage
>the
>state philosophers have touched on issues of management, business and
>organisation. Awareness, however, is now growing that philosophy can offer
>much to the theory and practice of management education. While the early
>business schools focused first on finance and later the social sciences, in
>recent years there have been growing calls for management to be treated as
>a
>humanity.
>
>With management theorists and researchers struggling to find a ^Ñcore
>discipline^Ò for their field, philosophy offers more promise than many
>candidates. Philosophical techniques and approaches can help clarify and
>evaluate the aims and values of management education. Concepts commonly
>treated by philosophers figure increasingly in management debates; power,
>authority, rights, justice, virtues, citizenship, community, property,
>value, knowledge, rationality, dialogue, responsibility, passion, and
>emotion are just some of the most salient. In addition, managers find some
>of their own core concepts problematical - such as manager, leader,
>motivation, communication, system, organisation, measurement, control - and
>the scope for philosophy to assist here is obvious. The different
>philosophical traditions such as analytical philosophy, critical theory,
>phenomenology and post-modern theory offer a choice of routes to tackling
>problems managers face.
>
>In addition, philosophical methods offer managers new ways of enhancing
>personal and team capacities such as reflection, surfacing assumptions,
>holistic thinking, analysis, critical and creative thinking,
>decision-making, self-understanding and growth.
>Finally philosophers throughout history have produced work that managers
>can
>find relevant, accessible and stimulating if contextualised and presented
>appropriately.
>
>Current Practice
>
>While Peter Senge has remarked, ^Óthe quality of our thinking affects
>everything we do^Ô, philosophy has too often stayed on the margins of
>management education and practice. All too often ^Ñbusiness ethics^Ò has
>appeared in a modular ghetto while the management curriculum remains
>unaffected by the contribution of philosophy - to its design or
>implementation. Among many managers in some cultures, reflection and
>theory
>are often treated as if they were hostile to effective practice.
>
>It was not always so. In 1632, the precursor to the University of
>Amsterdam - the Athenaeum Illustre - was founded to educate students in
>Trade and Philosophy. Today, fresh approaches are evident. One leading
>business school is under student pressure to raise the profile of corporate
>responsibility in the curriculum. At the University of British Columbia
>the
>award winning MBA Core programme is staffed by five faculty - including a
>philosopher, Wayne Norman, alongside experts in accounting, marketing,
>organisational behaviour, information technology and operations - working
>together ^Óin the same room, five days a week, for four months^Ô.
>(http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/people/norman/index.htm).
>
>Copenhagen Business School has offered a BSc in Business Administration and
>Philosophy since 1996. ^ÓThe philosophical dimension trains students in
>argumentation, in recognising general contexts, incorporating values, and
>in
>understanding our time in a historical perspective - all qualities greatly
>demanded in the knowledge-based society of the future.^Ô
>(http://www.cbs.dk/stud_pro/hafiluk.shtml)
>
>More recently an MSc in Business Administration and Philosophy has been
>launched at the Copenhagen Business School. It builds on the skills,
>concepts and themes taught on the above programme, ^Óspecifically:
>
>o the phenomenon of knowledge (truth, validity and applicability)
>o the basis for actions in attitudes and values
>o the rhetoric dimension of language (management language and aesthetic
>communication)
>
>In addition, it emphasises the importance of the above dimensions within
>and
>in relation to business economics. The dynamics between the economic and
>philosophical dimension are maintained, and the two perspectives
>simultaneously integrated.^Ô (http://www.cbs.dk/stud_pro/cmfiluk.shtml)
>
>At the Free University of Amsterdam an MA in Philosophy of Organisation is
>in plan, the latest in a series of initiatives bringing philosophical
>thinking to management through the Prato Centre.
>(http://www.ph.vu.nl/prato/eng/)
>
>Alongside the journal Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in
>Practice)
>a philosophy of management textbook is now in preparation. Senior
>executives at BP are exposed to philosophical ideas as part of their
>development. And outside the academy, philosophical practitioners have for
>many years employed philosophical methods with their clients, especially in
>Australia, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United States.
>
>© Copyright 2003
>_____________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>Nigel Laurie
>Editor and Publisher
>Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice)
>74a Station Road East
>Oxted
>Surrey RH8 0PG
>UK
>Tel/fax +44 (0)1883 715419
>
>Visit our website at www.managementphilosophers.com
>
>Join the ManagementPhilosophers discussion list
>Email: LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>with the following message:
>
>SUBSCRIBE MANAGEMENTPHILOSOPHERS
>
>and leave the subject line blank.
>
>
>
>
>Nigel Laurie
>Editor and Publisher
>Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice)
>74a Station Road East
>Oxted
>Surrey RH8 0PG
>UK
>Tel/fax +44 (0)1883 715419
>
>Visit our website at www.managementphilosophers.com
>
>Join the ManagementPhilosophers discussion list
>Email: LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>with the following message:
>
>SUBSCRIBE MANAGEMENTPHILOSOPHERS
>
>and leave the subject line blank.
>
>
>
_________________________________________________________________
Chat via SMS. Simply send 'CHAT' to 1889918. More info at
http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/MoChat.asp?blipid=6800
THe conference will be held on 20-22 Oct 2003 in Melbourne.
Last minute registrations are welcome for those who are interested in
attending to watch proceedings, but no further papers can be accepted. I
will extend the early-bird rates to members of this list if they register
within the next five days.
Details on the conference website: http://www.intergon.net/maaoe
Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA - 0411267256 - lboxer@xxxxxxxxxxx
Attend MAAOE 03 --- Melbourne --- 20-22 Oct 03
http://www.intergon.net/maaoe -- http://intergon.net/card
----------------------------------------------
In 1976 Michale Foucualt said: ... terrorism ... has a totally opposite
effect which is to make the bourgeois class even more closely attached to
its ideology ... (original in French) 'Le Savoir Comme Crime'
----------------------------------------------
>From: "Nigel Laurie" <nigel.laurie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "foucault@lists. village. virginia. edu"
><foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: CFP: Philosophy and Management Education
>Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:19:04 +0100
>
>Call for Papers
>
>FROM PHILOSOPHY TO MANAGEMENT AND BACK AGAIN? PHILOSOPHY AND THE EDUCATION
>OF MANAGERS
>
>University of Gloucestershire Business School, Cheltenham
>Thursday 20 November 2003 9.30 - 5.00 pm
>
>A 1-day seminar/workshop organised by the University of Gloucestershire
>Business School in association with Philosophy of Management (formerly
>Reason in Practice).
>
>AIMS AND APPROACH
>This informal event provides an opportunity for teachers, researchers,
>consultants and managers to:
>o Share experiences of the issues, challenges and approaches taken in
>enhancing the contribution of philosophy and philosophers to management
>education
>o Discover how others have worked through issues of common importance
>o Learn about resources that have proved to be valuable in bringing a
>philosophical dimension to management education
>o Review outcome studies completed or in progress
>o Consider follow up actions
>
>CONTRIBUTIONS
>
>We invite contributions in the form of brief paper presentations, poster
>presentations, demonstrations and workshops.
>
>Presentations should be supported with slides and/or handouts and last up
>to
>20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes allowed for discussion. Posters
>should be displayed on approximately 4-6 sheets of A3 paper. Workshops and
>demonstrations should last up to 75 minutes including discussion.
>
>If there is sufficient interest, Philosophy of Management will arrange
>publication of the conference materials in some form.
>
>Topics to be addressed could include the following:
>
>o Why do many in the field of management misperceive philosophy and
>philosophising: as anti-practice, ^Ñnegative^Ò, irrelevant, etc?
>o How can the misperceptions of philosophy and philosophising best be
>corrected?
>o How is philosophy being integrated into the management curriculum?
>o What curriculum designs and teaching strategies involving philosophy have
>proved successful with managers and student managers?
>o How can philosophers contribute in assessing values and assumptions and
>choosing goals and methods in management education and training?
>o What resources have proved useful in bringing a philosophical component
>to
>management education and training: texts, textbooks, film, video,
>psychometric and other instruments, cases, etc?
>o What philosophical methods have proved successful in helping managers
>philosophise agers e.g. communities of enquiry, Socratic dialogues?
>o Where can and should philosophy contribute to the management curriculum?
>o Who should teach or facilitate the philosophical contributions?
>
>This list is purely illustrative.
>
>TIMETABLE
>
>o Proposals with abstracts (250 words) - Due by Monday 20 October to Nigel
>Laurie, Philosophy of Management, 74a Station Road East, Oxted, Surrey, RH8
>0PG, UK or by email nigel.laurie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>o Feedback and acceptances - Notified by Friday 24 October
>o Master copy of presentation materials for issue to participants - Due by
>Friday 14 November. Word, RTF or PDF files if possible, to be sent to Sue
>Pearce at The University of Gloucestershire Business School, Pallas Villa,
>Park Campus, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 2QF or email spearce@xxxxxxxxxx
>o Workshop - Thursday 20 November
>
>SEMINAR PROGRAMME
>
>9.30 Registration and coffee
>10.00 Welcome address
>10.15 Session 1
>10.45 Session 2
>11.15 Session 3
>11.45 Poster viewing/Discussion
>12.00 Buffet lunch
>1.00 Session 4 Workshop demonstration: taking a philosophical approach to a
>management issue
>2.15 Session 5
>3.00 Tea/Coffee
>3.15 Session 6
>4.00 Plenary and panel discussion involving all speakers
>4.30 Close
>
>WORKSHOP CONVENORS
>
>Edward Kingsley Trezise
>University of Gloucestershire
>The Business School
>Broadlands Villa
>The Park
>Cheltenham
>Glos. GL50 2QF UK
>Email: etrezise@xxxxxxxxxx
>Tel: + 44 (0) 1242 543258
>Fax: + 44 (0) 1242 543327
>
>Nigel Laurie
>Editor and Publisher of Philosophy of Management
> Management Consultant and Chair of the Society for Philosophy in Practice
>74a Station Road East
>Oxted
>Surrey RH8 0PG UK
>Email: nigel.laurie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 1883 715419
>To discuss proposals or any aspect of the workshop please contact one of
>the
>above.
>
>REGISTRATION
>
>The seminar/workshop fee is £50, or £25 for full-time students. This price
>includes morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon tea/coffee and all papers.
>To book your place at the seminar, please complete the booking form
>attached
>to this email or visit http://online.glos.ac.uk/pom where the booking form
>is available to be downloaded.
>
>Travel/Accommodation
>For information on travel to The University of Gloucestershire and
>overnight
>accommodation, please visit
>http://online.glos.ac.uk/pom
>
>or contact Sue Pearce, Business Development Coordinator at the University
>of
>Gloucestershire by telephone on + 44 (0) 1242 544077 or via email
>spearce@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>RATIONALE
>
>Ever since Plato^Òs Socrates raised the question of how we should manage
>the
>state philosophers have touched on issues of management, business and
>organisation. Awareness, however, is now growing that philosophy can offer
>much to the theory and practice of management education. While the early
>business schools focused first on finance and later the social sciences, in
>recent years there have been growing calls for management to be treated as
>a
>humanity.
>
>With management theorists and researchers struggling to find a ^Ñcore
>discipline^Ò for their field, philosophy offers more promise than many
>candidates. Philosophical techniques and approaches can help clarify and
>evaluate the aims and values of management education. Concepts commonly
>treated by philosophers figure increasingly in management debates; power,
>authority, rights, justice, virtues, citizenship, community, property,
>value, knowledge, rationality, dialogue, responsibility, passion, and
>emotion are just some of the most salient. In addition, managers find some
>of their own core concepts problematical - such as manager, leader,
>motivation, communication, system, organisation, measurement, control - and
>the scope for philosophy to assist here is obvious. The different
>philosophical traditions such as analytical philosophy, critical theory,
>phenomenology and post-modern theory offer a choice of routes to tackling
>problems managers face.
>
>In addition, philosophical methods offer managers new ways of enhancing
>personal and team capacities such as reflection, surfacing assumptions,
>holistic thinking, analysis, critical and creative thinking,
>decision-making, self-understanding and growth.
>Finally philosophers throughout history have produced work that managers
>can
>find relevant, accessible and stimulating if contextualised and presented
>appropriately.
>
>Current Practice
>
>While Peter Senge has remarked, ^Óthe quality of our thinking affects
>everything we do^Ô, philosophy has too often stayed on the margins of
>management education and practice. All too often ^Ñbusiness ethics^Ò has
>appeared in a modular ghetto while the management curriculum remains
>unaffected by the contribution of philosophy - to its design or
>implementation. Among many managers in some cultures, reflection and
>theory
>are often treated as if they were hostile to effective practice.
>
>It was not always so. In 1632, the precursor to the University of
>Amsterdam - the Athenaeum Illustre - was founded to educate students in
>Trade and Philosophy. Today, fresh approaches are evident. One leading
>business school is under student pressure to raise the profile of corporate
>responsibility in the curriculum. At the University of British Columbia
>the
>award winning MBA Core programme is staffed by five faculty - including a
>philosopher, Wayne Norman, alongside experts in accounting, marketing,
>organisational behaviour, information technology and operations - working
>together ^Óin the same room, five days a week, for four months^Ô.
>(http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/people/norman/index.htm).
>
>Copenhagen Business School has offered a BSc in Business Administration and
>Philosophy since 1996. ^ÓThe philosophical dimension trains students in
>argumentation, in recognising general contexts, incorporating values, and
>in
>understanding our time in a historical perspective - all qualities greatly
>demanded in the knowledge-based society of the future.^Ô
>(http://www.cbs.dk/stud_pro/hafiluk.shtml)
>
>More recently an MSc in Business Administration and Philosophy has been
>launched at the Copenhagen Business School. It builds on the skills,
>concepts and themes taught on the above programme, ^Óspecifically:
>
>o the phenomenon of knowledge (truth, validity and applicability)
>o the basis for actions in attitudes and values
>o the rhetoric dimension of language (management language and aesthetic
>communication)
>
>In addition, it emphasises the importance of the above dimensions within
>and
>in relation to business economics. The dynamics between the economic and
>philosophical dimension are maintained, and the two perspectives
>simultaneously integrated.^Ô (http://www.cbs.dk/stud_pro/cmfiluk.shtml)
>
>At the Free University of Amsterdam an MA in Philosophy of Organisation is
>in plan, the latest in a series of initiatives bringing philosophical
>thinking to management through the Prato Centre.
>(http://www.ph.vu.nl/prato/eng/)
>
>Alongside the journal Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in
>Practice)
>a philosophy of management textbook is now in preparation. Senior
>executives at BP are exposed to philosophical ideas as part of their
>development. And outside the academy, philosophical practitioners have for
>many years employed philosophical methods with their clients, especially in
>Australia, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United States.
>
>© Copyright 2003
>_____________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>Nigel Laurie
>Editor and Publisher
>Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice)
>74a Station Road East
>Oxted
>Surrey RH8 0PG
>UK
>Tel/fax +44 (0)1883 715419
>
>Visit our website at www.managementphilosophers.com
>
>Join the ManagementPhilosophers discussion list
>Email: LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>with the following message:
>
>SUBSCRIBE MANAGEMENTPHILOSOPHERS
>
>and leave the subject line blank.
>
>
>
>
>Nigel Laurie
>Editor and Publisher
>Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice)
>74a Station Road East
>Oxted
>Surrey RH8 0PG
>UK
>Tel/fax +44 (0)1883 715419
>
>Visit our website at www.managementphilosophers.com
>
>Join the ManagementPhilosophers discussion list
>Email: LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>with the following message:
>
>SUBSCRIBE MANAGEMENTPHILOSOPHERS
>
>and leave the subject line blank.
>
>
>
_________________________________________________________________
Chat via SMS. Simply send 'CHAT' to 1889918. More info at
http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/MoChat.asp?blipid=6800