We invite you and your faculty and graduate students to save the date of October 10-12 to join the Midwest Academy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the InterContinental Hotel.

The theme is “Innovating and Navigating Across Interdisciplinary Boundaries” that will consider at how leadership and management disciplines reach across disciplinary lines to discover ways to rethink, remake, tinker, remix, and innovate and what it means to lead in today’s complex world of organizations and society.

Visit our websiteundefinedmidwestacademyofmanagement.orgundefinedto get all the information, see the Call for Papers, join the Midwest Academy (it’s only $50), and register for the conference.

In addition to the regular paper, symposia, and panel sessions, this year we will have a Doctoral Consortium and a brand new concept: Lightning Rounds! These sessions offer the opportunity to describe a successful, practical solution to a teaching and/or learning problem or forum to incubate an idea or research project with feedback from conference participants. For these 15-minute sessions, presenters should plan for 5 minutes of presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion and questions (not blind reviewed).

Submissions are being accepted electronically on our website.

Please pass this announcement to your graduate students and faculty.

Look forward to seeing you there October 10-12 in Milwaukee.


Marilyn J Bugenhagen, PhD
Midwest Academy Conference Program Chair
President-elect, Midwest Academy of Management

ALE Award applications are due May 1!

Nominate someone today for Outstanding Program, Distinguised Leadership and Service, Founding Mothers' (Student Scholarships), ALE Rising Star, and the Robin Orr Outstanding Practitioner Award.

For complete descriptions and requirements for nomination visit the website at http:// www.leadershipeducators.org/ Awards!

Contact Dr. Summer Odom for more information!

Just a short reminder that the spring deadline for submissions to JOLE is coming up quickly on May 1! I know all of you are working hard on those research and theory articles, idea and application briefs and I can't wait to receive them! If you have colleagues who aren't on our email list, please forward this to them as well so our reminder is spread far and wide!

Remember all submissions now go through our FastTrack system, so check the JOLE website for more information before submitting!

As always, if you have questions, please email me at jole.editor@gmail.com

The following call for chapters is for a book being edited by Dr. Nancy Erbe, at California State University. I will be writing a chapter, and would be happy to answer any questions if you are interested in submitting a proposal.

Sincerely,

-Curt Friedel

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 30, 2013

Full Chapters Due:  June 30,2013

Approaches to Managing Organizational Diversity and Innovation

A book edited by Dr. Nancy Erbe (California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA)

To be published by IGI Global:

Introduction

We are living in an increasingly innovative global community.  In the face of vast promise and potential, however, many struggle with global diversity and difference---the variable that, when more effectively navigated, reaps rich rewards.

Many contemporary skills and approaches are emerging as the result of researching and working with diverse global partnerships, teams, networks, companies and projects.  Anyone working in this global community must stay abreast of these developments and aspire to master the most important for their particular involvement.

Objective of the Book

This book aspires to present a variety of practical tools, skills, practices, models and approaches that are proving themselves in practice---demonstrating effectiveness with managing diversity and innovation.  It will also present a few visionary proposals for transforming societies, citizens and professions so all concerned are better prepared to embrace diversity and do their part in creating valuable and necessary innovation that positively impacts the global community.

Target Audience

This book will benefit several disciplines, including business  (human resources, management (business and public) , marketing, organizational development, sales and training, engineering (including digital media arts) and information technology as well as any other area concerned with international studies, development, and service.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

•·         Practices for increasing constructive capacity with ambiguity, difference, unfamiliarity, disequilibrium, and complexity

•·         Reducing defensiveness (distorted perception, premature and rigid judgment and other negative habit/reaction, e.g. seeking the comfort of “sameness,” in/out groups)

•·         Reflective Practice (recognizing, identifying, scrutinizing, improving….professional and personal frames across culture, especially internal barriers)

•·         Approaches to validating and rewarding authentic curiosity (exceptional inquiry) and independence, initiative, risk taking; protecting and encouraging open expression of truly fresh ideas

•·         Collaborative multicultural skill mastery (creating teams with inclusive equal participation)

•·         Ways to identify common ground and options for shared gain

•·         Managerial modeling, mentoring and responsiveness to diversity and innovation

•·         Practices for building and sustaining positive cross-cultural rapport, relationship  (effective reframing across culture)…organizational social capital

•·         Transformative practice and approach to difference and diversity

•·         Research based approaches to more effective global relationships promoting innovation

•·         Innovative approaches to diversity and innovation

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 30, 2013 a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 30, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. [1]

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates

March 30, 2013:            Proposal Submission Deadline

April 30, 2013:                 Notification of Acceptance

June 30, 2013:                 Full Chapter Submission

July 30, 2013:                  Review Results Returned

August 30, 2013:          Final Chapter Submission

January 22, 2014:         Final Deadline

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:

                                                                                              Dr. Nancy d. Erbe

Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

California State University Dominguez Hills

Tel.: +310-243-2805 • Fax: +310-516-4268 

E-mail: nerbe@csudh.edu

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