Dear Apoorva and GDO Listserv members,
I sincerely apologize if any of you took my email as a rebuke; that was not my intention. My intention was to clarify the process of unsubscribing per some people's requests, thus freeing up our inboxes from these requests. Again, apologies offered. Have a great day.
OHIV
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From: Apoorva Ghosh [mailto:apoorva.ghosh@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 12:48 PM
To: Oscar Holmes, Iv <oh46@camden.rutgers.edu>
Cc: GDO-L@aomlists.aom.org
Subject: Re: Unsubscribing from GDO Listserv
Dear Oscar Holmes
Other than rebuking the members for asking to remove them, the listserv moderator could also have moderated some of the emails that were, in my opinion, divisive and unprofessionally written.
On Feb 9, 2017 9:40 AM, "Oscar Holmes, Iv" <oh46@camden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
Dear GDO Listserv members,
Please refrain from sending emails to the listserv asking to be removed. It's a simple process for you to subscribe or unsubscribe to any AOM listserv. Please follow the steps here to remove yourself from the GDO listserv. Thank you.
OHIV
From: Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division Listserv [mailto:GDO-L@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Arevalo, Jorge
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 12:17 PM
To: GDO-L@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
Subject: Re: A forward message from Ana Reyes
Same here, please, please.... take my name off this list.
Jorge A. Arevalo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management
Department of Marketing & Management Sciences
Cotsakos College of Business
William Paterson University
1600 Valley Road, Room 3071
973 720 3073
arevaloj1@wpunj.edu
Please drop me from this group. Thanks.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Elisabeth Wilson <00000091ed6bcb4f-dmarc-request@aomlists.aom.org> wrote:
Fully agree with Deborah's comments. We cannot be neutral.
Elisabeth Wilson, UK
Sent from my iPad
I feel strengthened by your words. Once again I see strong New Zealand women stand up as leaders for social justice. I am proud to be your colleague and proud to see we have modern day Ann Franks amongst us. We are truly privileged as scholars but with it comes the responsibility to be society's conscience - the canary in the mine signalling there is no oxygen. I raise my voice with you as a canary.
To all of you suffering unfairness now, you are loved and admired for your strength and commitment to empathy to kindness.
My opinions are my own. Proudly.
-------- Original message --------
Date: 1/02/2017 09:32 (GMT+10:00)
Subject: Re: A forward message from Ana Reyes
Kia ora all
I write as a GDO member outside the USA. As I see many many other global and US associations of academics condemning Trump's discriminatory Executive Order, and clearly labelling the key ethical and social values at stake, I am ashamed of the AoM response. Why does it say about us as a group of academics?
I note that AoM has used the central term 'diversity' to justify their non-interventionist argument -as in their argument that all AoM members have a 'diversity' of views. As GDO I think we must oppose this rhetorical move. The term 'diversity' is meaningless when taken out of the the contexts of gender, race and other intersecting forms of discrimination that the concept of 'diversity' is used to address in the work of our division.
The second key point is that our colleagues caught in Trump's discriminatory Executive Order (it is ridiculously euphemistic for AoM to call it 'Travel restrictions') are being excluded from AoM. They cannot get to the USA. If you are interested in more of their comments look at the AoM Facebook page and twitter feed.
At Vancouver GDO addressed #BlackLivesMatter. We must similarly address the #MuslimBan. The minimum option is a strong message to AoM President and program Chair, naming the issues at stake that are dear to our hearts in GDO, and calling for stronger action. Another option is to boycott in solidarity. Another is to address this issue squarely at the conference sessions. There are many other possibilities.
in solidarity with our Muslim colleagues and with the fight for human rights everywhere,
Deborah
Deborah Jones, School of Management, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
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I agree with Ana. I see it as part of our duty to educate on diversity issues and to advocate for equality and fairness. I was disappointed in the email from AoM and I think the divisions need to step up and speak out. I'm sure that Ana and I are not alone, if we do not resist and question, then we are by default complicit in, and accepting of this inhumane action of the US president.
Assistant Professor (Management & Organizational Behavior)
John B.Goddard School of Business & Economics
1337 Edvalson St Dept 3801
"Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire"
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Doug Creed <creedatgdo@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Doug,
I don't know if I have an ability to post to the GDO list serve. If not, I would appreciate it if you would pass on this message for me.
Thanks to each of you for raising the need to respond as a Division, and for considering how best to address this US Executive decree. I can appreciate the concern raised about taking political action given the Academy's tax-exempt status. Yet, as a practitioner and educator concerned with global diversity, and as a naturalized citizen, I also wonder how the Diversity and Inclusion Division of this Academy of scholars can ignore this "multi-national and religious exclusion" and treat it merely as a conference attendance problem. We can all reach out and speak our individual consciences, but I wonder if it would be possible to think together and out loud about how to respond as the GDO division of the AOM?
Best,
Ana Reyes