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Text Box: This programme is correct at 5 May 2008. Please note that further contributions are under consideration.
Philosophy of Management 08
St Anne's College, Oxford
11 - 14 July 2008

 

Friday 11 July

2.00 - 3.30

Registration

3.30

Tea

 

Ogilvy Theatre

4.00

Welcome

Nigel Laurie

Editor Philosophy of Management

 

Room A

Room B

 

Philosophers on Management: 1              

International Perspectives: 1

4.15

Heidegger and Management

Robert Shaw

 

Does John Searle’s Theory of Social Facts and Social Institutions Lack a Systemic Sensibility?

Rod Thomas

The Impact of Indian Philosophy on Modern Management

Vikrant Singh Tomar

 

African Ubuntu Philosophy and Global Management

David Lutz

7.00

Drinks Reception

7.30

Dinner

Saturday 12 July

 

Ogilvy Theatre

8.30

Panel Introduction to the day: Nelarine Cornelius and session chairs

 

Room A

Room B

9.00

 

 

 

 

 

The Reformation of the Church: Ontological and Epistemic Implications for the Study of Management

G A Goldman and T N van der Linde

 

Corporate Management Responsibility

L A Kahn

On the Notion of Organisational Integrity

Wim Vandekerckhove

 

On the Notion of Organisational Violence

Paul Griseri & David Seth Preston

 

11.00

Coffee

 

Ogilvy Theatre

11.30 - 12.45

 

Plenary Address

TBA

1.00 

 Lunch

 

Room A

Room B

 

Workshops

 

2.00              

 

The Systemic Idea in Practice – A Concept /Method for Managers to Handle Complex Situations

Sten Viktorsson

Researching and Publishing Philosophy of Management

Doctoral and post-doctoral student workshop

Paul Griseri

3.30

Tea

4.00

Workshop (continued)

Workshop (continued)

 

Ogilvy Theatre

6.00

Reflective Review of the day: Nelarine Cornelius and session chairs

7.00

Dinner

Sunday 13 July

 

Ogilvy Theatre

8.30

Panel Introduction to the day: Paul Griseri and session chairs

 

Room A

Room B

 

Management in …

9.00

 

 

 

 

Theory

Knowledge Production in the Academy: Organisation and Management Accounting Scholarship from the 1960s, Explored Through Alasdair Macintyre’s Concept of the ‘Practice-Based Community’

Miriam Green

 

Existentialist Modes of Teaching Business Ethics

L Barton

Practice

A Phenomenological Portrait in Collegial Decision-Making

Robin Carleen Anderson

 

Strategic Syllogisms and Leaps of Faith

Mike Flynn

 

11.00

Coffee

 

Ogilvy Theatre

 

11.30

Management Education and Philosophy

 

How Can Philosophy, Philosophers and Philosophising Contribute to Management Education?

N Barnabas

 

An Analysis of the Philosophy of Management as a Community, Discipline, Conference and Journal

Romuald Rudzki & Pierre Schindler

1.00 

 Lunch

 

Room A

Room B

 

Philosophers on Management: 2              

International Perspectives: 2

2.00

 

 

 

 

 The Flesh of Leadership:  How Merleau Ponty's Phenomenology Contributes to a Relational Theory of Leadership

Donna Ladkin

 

Philosophical Intuition and Managerial Intuition in Henri Bergson and Henry Mintzberg: Bergsonism Under the Spotlight of the Management Literature

Ghislain Deslandes

 

Living the ‘Good Life’ in the Age of Corporate Power

Martin Kelly & Ruth Walker

What is Quality, and Market? An Unwestern Perspective

Krishna Gopal Misra

 

Management Education in India

Anshul Pachouri, Archit Bansal, Divyanshu Tripathi, Pratiyush Khandelwal

 

Employee-Task Competence Mapping for Performance Excellence: A Framework Based on Indian Philosophy of ‘Karm Yoga’

Shiv K Tripathi & B V Ratnam

4.00

Tea

 

Ogilvy Theatre

4.30

 

Philosophy of Management as a Community

Action proposals presentation and planning

5.30

Reflective Review of the day: Paul Griseri and session chairs

7.00

Pre-dinner drinks and Conference Dinner

 

Monday 14 July

 

Ogilvy Theatre

8.30

Panel Introduction to the day: Jim Platts and session chairs

 

Leadership

 

Room A

Room B

9.00

 

 

 

 

 

The Geography of Reflective Leadership: The Inner Life of Democratic Learning Communities

Philip Woods and Glenys Woods

 

Building a Reflective Leadership: How to Enable Managers to Implement Breathing Rooms in the Workflow

Andrea Vitullo & Francesco Tomba

New Humanistic Management: A Potential Modern Moral Philosophy of Organising or just more Jargon and Ideological Clichés?

Doug Foster

 

Stages of Reflective Competence and Management Development

Hans Bennink

11.00

Coffee

 

Ogilvy Theatre

11.00

- 12.45 

 

Fritz Schumacher

 

Schumacher, New Zealand and People of the Land

Janet Ferguson

 

Exploring Schumacher and Popper: a Quest for the Philosophical Foundations of Project Cycle Management

Patrick Rang & Katri Targama

12.45

Conference Close

o Conclusions and applications

o Next Steps

1.00 

 Lunch and depart

 

Room A

Room B

2.00

Socratic Dialogue: When Do I Learn From Others? 

Details and booking arrangements to follow

Philosophy in An Afternoon

Details and booking arrangements to follow

3.30

Tea

Tea

4.00

 

Socratic Dialogue (continued)

Philosophy in An Afternoon (continued)

5.30

Dialogue Review

Session Review

6.00

Close and depart

Close and depart

 

 

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