Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to submit a paper to a presenter symposium in the AOM 2013 meeting organized by Dr. Fida Afiouni and Dr. Charlotte Karam from the American University of Beirut.. This year, the symposium title is: Indigenous HR policy development in the Arab Middle East: Putting gender on the agenda.
The symposium abstract is listed below. If you are interested in presenting a paper that fits within the symposium's theme, Please let me know by sending an email to fa16@aub.edu.lb as an expression of interest before December 18th
Below is a short description of the symposium
Our goal in this 2013 AOM Symposium is to stimulate reflections on the type and content of organizational and HRM policies that could (1) support women's access to employment as well as facilitate career progression, and (2) simultaneously stimulate economic development. Some of the questions we are interested in exploring concern how organizations can integrate local dynamics such as the centrality of the family, Islam, Patriarchy complementarity within their HR policies. How can organizations develop HR policies that reflect the life priorities and prevailing values within the region? How do the current dynamics surrounding the Arab Spring (or "Arab Awakening") create a space and a momentum for researchers to reflect on the potential for policy, practice, and representation change within HRM systems within the region? How can researchers contribute to a better understanding of the potential for HRM as well as the development possibilities for HR value creation for regional stakeholders overall? How can recent national human resource development models, plans and initiatives be more fully embraced at the organizational level? Such questions continuously point to the need for approaching HRM in the region by stepping within the particularities of that region. Here Metcalfe (2008) and Badran (2005), for example, acknowledge the importance of defining indigenously-relevant HRM systems and not merely systems adopted from the west. Development of such policies, therefore, requires not only an understanding of the macro-level factors and their implications on women's career patterns, conceptualizations of success, meaning of work, and faced challenges, but it also requires critical reflection on the type of HRM policies needed to help women achieve a successful and sustainable form of employment. It is only with this informed understanding that we can begin to draft indigenous HRM policies that would address women's concerns and lived realities. In an attempt to move the research agenda beyond considerations of macro-level contextual factors, we invite authors to submit papers that move research towards concrete actions that human resource managers can undertake in support of women's sustainable employment as well as in support of female contributions to regional economic development overall.
Other deadlines to keep in mind:
December 21th: Initial short Abstract
December 27th : Detailed Abstract (Two- to five-page synopsis of your paper written in the AOM style)
January 9th: Revised detailed abstract submission written in the AOM style
January 15th: Symposium submission by organizers
End of March: Notification of Acceptance of the Symposium
June 30th: Full Paper / acceptable written in the AOM style to give to our discussant a month to read and prepare the discussion of the papers.
Best Regards,
Fida Afiouni
Assistant Professor of HRM
American University of Beirut
Olayan School of Business
T: 01-374374 x 3725
F: 01-750214
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