TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 4, No. 17 (August 17, 2007)
Table of Contents:
- General Announcements:
- Call for Submissions
- Journal Table of Contents
- Book Announcements
- Position Announcements
- Research Discussions
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General Announcements:
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The TIM Division Fall Newsletter is accepting announcements until September 14th. Do you have a call for submission to a conference or special issue that TIM division members would find interesting? Do you have a book announcement? Do you have a job announcement? Do you wish to include a column that would be of interest to the TIM Division members? These and other related news items would be appropriate for the TIM division newsletter. Please submit these to Russell Fralich
Russell.fralich@hec.ca with the subject line of "TIM Division Fall Newsletter Announcement" and we will try to include them. Please note that some items may have to be edited to fit (please try to keep all announcements to 300 words or less).
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Call for Submissions:
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Leadership Quarterly Special Issue on Leadership in Extreme Contexts
Editors:
Sean T. Hannah (
sean.hannah@usma.edu), United States Military Academy
Mary Uhl-Bien (
muhlbien@unlnotes.unl.edu), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bruce J. Avolio (
bavolio@unlnotes.unl.edu ), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Leadership scholars have called for increased attention to focusing on context in the study of leadership (e.g., Osborn, Hunt, & Jauch, 2002, LQ). In addition, organizational scientists are beginning to call for research on "extreme" contexts rather than average situations, and panels and symposiums on dangerous contexts were conducted at the most recent Gallup Leadership Institute Summit, SIOP, and served as the central theme at the last biannual Global Leadership Conference at West Point. As noted by McKelvey (call for papers for 2008 Org Science Winter Conference), "managers don't really need the advice of organization science scholars when faced with 'average' situations. It is when they confront extreme events, emergent outcomes, irregularities, or crises that managers should find it useful to learn from organization scientists." However, very little empirical or theoretical work has addressed leadership in extreme situations. Therefore, the purpose of this special issue is to bring together a compendium of papers that begin to advance a science of leadership in extreme contexts.
We define extreme contexts as those in which leaders are faced with dangerous or highly dynamic and unpredictable situations where the outcomes of leadership processes can either avoid or result in catastrophic consequences. These consequences may be physical or psychological in nature (e.g., death, disaster, psychological trauma). We are less interested in purely economic consequences (e.g., large financial losses) as a focal point for examining extreme contexts, although we could envision examples related to the other two conditions, such as a pandemic crisis resulting in an economic disaster.
The editors pose the question, "What constitutes effective leadership for extreme contexts?" This broader question suggests more specific questions, such as: What are the dimensions comprising extreme contexts and what are the boundaries by which they can be defined? How should and does leadership differ under such conditions? Given self-selection, in what ways do followers and leaders differ from those in non-extreme 'regular' contexts? What unique attraction, selection, socialization and attrition processes are present and what are the implications for leadership? What individual differences and attributes are required for leading and following in extreme contexts? Where might shared leadership processes fit in understanding leadership in extreme contexts? What motivational and influence processes operate under these conditions? How does followership differ in these conditions? What type (e.g. shared, network, command and control) of leadership is most effective? How can we better inform leader, leadership, follower, followership, team member and team development? How should and does leadership influence meaning-making as well as self and social identity under extreme contexts? Finally, how do extreme contexts offer the opportunity for 'bad' leadership, corrupt leadership or personalized charismatic leadership to emerge?
In this special issue, we are calling for a broad, systems approach to studying leadership at the 'extremes' that includes a better understanding of leaders, followers, peers and the emergent influences of groups, teams and other collectives operating in extreme contexts. We also suggest that authors investigate how extreme conditions may vary by domain and type, are measured by magnitude versus extreme/not-extreme dichotomizations, and may be perceived and attributed differently by varied leaders and followers including some focus on cultural differences. The potential for catastrophic consequences inherent in extreme contexts also raises questions about outcome dependency. For example, how does leadership differ when both leaders and followers may experience the outcome (e.g., a swat team leader and his team all entering a building), when only followers are exposed to consequences (e.g., a commander sending troops into battle), or when neither leaders or followers but their 'client' is at risk (e.g., trauma team doctor or air traffic controller).
Papers should make a clear contribution toward advancing current leadership theory and research by bringing into focus the relevance of extreme contexts to investigating leadership. Papers are appropriate that provide frameworks and testable hypotheses to inform future study in this critical area of leadership research. We are particularly interested in pieces that advance the understanding of both leader development and leadership development to prepare practitioners to purposively operate in extreme contexts. Quantitative and qualitative empirical studies conducted in extreme contexts are highly desired. Papers offering current models focusing on reactive leadership under unplanned situations, such as the focus on "crisis leadership or management" will not necessarily be excluded, but will be scrutinized for their theoretical and practical application to the main focus of this call. We encourage authors to consult or collaborate with practitioners who operate in extreme conditions to ensure papers have ecological validity and practical implications/applications.
Due Date: Full paper submissions need to be received by November 1, 2008. The special issue editors encourage but do not require authors to submit a 5 page (double spaced) proposal outlining their intended paper. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis up to September 1, 2008 and authors will receive prompt feedback about the suitability of their intended paper.
An electronic copy of the submission should be sent to Dr. Sean Hannah at
sean.hannah@usma.edu. Questions about this special issue, expectations, requirements, and the appropriateness of a topic can be answered by any of the editors. Inquiries about the regular issues of The Leadership Quarterly should be made to Dr. Michael D. Mumford, Senior Editor, email:
mmumford@ou.edu.
Submission Guidelines: Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word in accordance with APA format and be no longer than 40 pages (not including abstract and references). Additional information on the Leadership Quarterly may be obtained at
www.ilr.ba.ttu.edu.
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Apologies for the unsolicited and impersonal message (and apologies for cross-postings), but I thought you might be interested in the following announcement.
The Fit Project at the Open University is proud to be hosting the first 1st International Online Conference on Fit. It will take place online (the environmentally-friendly way of getting colleagues together) on the 20th-22nd November 2007 and it is completely free.
The online conference will cover all forms of 'fit' (e.g. person-organization fit, person-job fit, person-vocation fit) and we welcome submissions of all types (e.g. theoretical, conceptual, methodological, empirical, provocative essay, review).
You can find out more about the e-conference at:
www.fitconference.com
Please sign-up, it commits you to nothing, but will give you reminders and information about the online conference as it becomes available (such as news of the keynote speakers). It will also give us a guide to the numbers of people that might 'attend' the conference.
I hope to 'see' you in November.
All the best,
Jon
Dr. Jon Billsberry
Project Leader, The Fit Project (www.fitproject.co.uk)
Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Open University Business School
Research Director, Human Resources Division, The Open University
Chair, B824 Managing Human Resources
Co-Editor, Organization Management Journal
Chair, Organisational Psychology track, British Academy of Management
Secretary, Management Education and Development division, Academy of Management
Open University Business School
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
UNITED KINGDOM
E:
j.billsberry@open.ac.uk
W:
www.jonbillsberry.co.uk
DL: +44 (0) 1908 652906
S: +44 (0) 1908 655888
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Journal Table of Contents:
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Dear Colleagues,
Please note that the next issue of the European Journal of International Management is now online:
European Journal of International Management (EJIM)
Volume 1 - Issue 3 - 2007
Special Issue on Towards Identifying the Unity in European Corporate Cultures
Guest Editors: Dr. Nigel Holden, Dr. Gerhard Fink and Dr. Vlad Vaiman
Table of Contents
Title and authors
Towards identifying the unity in European corporate cultures
Nigel Holden, Gerhard Fink, Vlad Vaiman
Cultural values in organisations: insights for Europe
Lilach Sagiv, Shalom H. Schwartz
European comparative management research: towards a research agenda
Wolfgang Mayrhofer
How is European management in Europe? An analysis of past, present and future management practices in Europe
Markus Pudelko, Anne-Wil Harzing
Mapping corporate Europe: business responses to institutional change, 1957-2007
John F. Wilson, Martin Jes Iversen, Harm Schroter, Andrea Colli, Veronica Binda, Valerie Antcliff
A European perspective on HRM
Chris Brewster
Mobility of headquarters in multinational corporations
Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Rebecca Piekkari, Ingmar Bjorkman
Here you can access the abstracts of articles published in this issue. If the hyperlink does not work, please try the following: (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=216&year=2007&vol=1&issue=3) or go to (www.ejim-global.org) and proceed to the current issue.
Best wishes,
Vlad Vaiman
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Book Announcements:
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Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations Peter Fleming, Judge Business School, Cambridge André Spicer, University of Warwick
ISBN-13: 9780521860864
In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Contesting the Corporation counters this view by showing that today's corporations are driven by political struggle, power plays and attempts to resist control. Building on a wide range of theoretical sources, Fleming and Spicer present an analysis of the different ways in which power operates within the modern workplace. They begin by building a theoretical perspective that synthesizes previous investigations of power and resistance, identifying struggle as a key concept. Each subsequent chapter illustrates a different dimension of workplace struggle through an array of original empirical studies relating to sexuality, cynicism, new social movements and new-wave trade unionism.
The book concludes by demonstrating that social justice claims underlie even the most innocuous forms of resistance, helping to transform some of the largest modern corporations.
Contents
Acknowledgements;
Introduction: prisons, playgrounds and parliaments;
1. Faces of power in organizations;
2. Faces of resistance at work;
3. Struggle in organizations;
4. Dis-identification and resentment: the case of cynicism;
5. De-sexualizing work and the struggle for desire;
6. Displacement and struggle: space, life and labour;
7. Discursive struggle: the case of globalization in the public sector;
8. Struggles for justice: wharfies, queers and capitalists;
9. Struggles for common ground in organizations;
Conclusion; Notes; References.
Further Information:
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521860864
Sample Chapters:
http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/ContestingtheCorporationsample.pdf
André Spicer
Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Andre.Spicer@wbs.ac.uk
+44 (0)24 7652 4513
http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/home
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Research Discussions:
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I wanted to draw your attention to two papers I recently put together that may be useful for you and your doctoral students. My research team developed a couple of methods that I wrote up so that other people could benefit from them.
Automatic Coding of Printed Materials
Abstract:
The paper presents a complete method for using automatic techniques to code printed text pages. It involves three automatic steps and one or two steps of manual corrections to obtain fully accurate results. We discovered that present-day consumer digital cameras are much better than high-end scanners to obtain pictures of printed pages quickly and without the wear and tear associated with scanners. We also found that high-end ($370) OCR software is much more cost-effective to achieve accurate text recognition and to process large amounts of data. We also describe how researchers can write a computer program for classifying automatically non-uniform data. We provide detailed instructions for each step in the automatic coding method so that other researchers can readily copy it.
Download at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1001568
Constructing Effective Longitudinal Databases on Your PC
Abstract:
The paper presents a strategy for designing longitudinal databases with FileMaker. The approach facilitates efficiency in entering data and flexibility for constructing statistical analyses from the raw data. The key feature of the strategy is to define the basic unit of observation in the database in terms of an agent, an event, and a date. Given that programs such as FileMaker can easily sort data by agent and date, once you structure the data correctly you can construct well-ordered event histories for agents, even if the researcher may enter the data in an unordered fashion. By using events that happened to an agent at a particular time as the basic unit of observation, one maintains maximum flexibility to do statistical analysis that aggregate basic data in different ways.
Download at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1003657
Best wishes,
Johann Peter Murmann
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Academic Director of the Executive Year at the AGSM
Head of the School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Australian School of Business, Level 5
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
New Phone: +61 (0) 2 9385 9733 Fax: +61 (0)2 9313 7279
Web:
http://professor-murmann.net
Working Papers:
http://ssrn.com/author=375099
My recent book:
http://knowledge-and-competitive-advantage.info/
Assistant: Avis Wong +61 (0) 2 9385 5641
avisw@agsm.edu.au
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Janet Salmons, PhD and Lynn Wilson, PhD are offering a webinar: Crossing a Line: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Working Across Disciplines on August 23 at 11-1 am EST, on Trainerspod.
We'll explore what happens when partnerships, teams and projects require us to work with people who come from disciplines different from our own? How can we make it a success? This interactive webinar will provide an opportunity to explore interdisciplinarity in theory and practice. We will present a new model and draw from a wealth of scholarly and practical experience. We both have PhDs in interdisciplinary studies and work in and across cross-disciplines including education and training, business and leadership, the arts, environmental science, government and the social sector. We will discuss our current inter-disciplinary project as editors of the forthcoming book, A Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy
http://www.vision2lead.com/html/esynergy.html).
Please see information on the website:
http://www.trainerspod.com/info/; the webinar is free but registration is necessary. Register here:
http://www.trainerspod.com/register.
Come and join in the conversation! Pass the word to anyone who might be interested in this live (and lively) discussion!
All the best,
Janet and Lynn
Janet Salmons <
jsalmons@vision2lead.com>
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Seeking Systematic reviews or Meta-Analysis
Denise Rousseau convened the evidence-based management collaborative as "a community-of-practice to make evidence-informed management a reality, sharing her initial view as:
* Our mission is to close the gap between management research and the ways practitioners make managerial and organizational decisions and educators teach organizational behavior, theory, strategy and human resources management.
* The Collaborative's primary task is to design the architecture and support practices for on-line access to best evidence summarized in ways practitioners and educators can readily use" (Rousseau, 2007, personal communication)
One of the sub-teams seeks your assistance.
Evidence-based management investigators are looking for high quality, systematic, published literature reviews. Locating reviews using library databases may prove insightful, but some of you might have read some reviews that really struck you as high quality that you could recommend. The reviews can be in any content area of organizational studies, use various review methods ( e.g., meta-analysis, systematic narrative review), and the original studies reviewed can use various quantitative and qualitative methods. Our only criteria are that the reviews are very well done and systematic and that the review methods are well explained in the articles.
Thanks very much and apologies for cross-listings.
Regards,
Jodi, Darlene, David, and team
Jodi S. Goodman
University of Connecticut
Email.
jodi.goodman@business.uconn.edu
Darlene Alexander-Houle
University of Phoenix
dahoule@email.phoenix.edu
David Denyer
Cranfield UK
david.denyer@Cranfield.ac.uk
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Darlene
Darlene Alexander-Houle
Global Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Adjunct Global Business and Management, University of Phoenix
281-514-0111
281-851-3924 (mobile)
darlene.alexander-houle@hp.com
dahoule@email.phoenix.edu