Title: “On Compassionate Scholarship: Why Should We Care”
Presenter: Anne S. Tsui, 67th President of the Academy of Management and Founding President, IACMR

Language: Chinese and English

Date/Time/Location:

October 10 (Wednesday), 2012, 2-4 pm in Room 106, North Building, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

October 23 (Tuesday), 2012, 2-4 pm, in Room 105, Dasan building, School of Management, Fudan University

Co-sponsored by IACMR, Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Description: 

This presentation is about the role of compassion in business and management research. Professor Tsui will begin with presenting some facts about suffering in our societies, then go on to an analysis of increasing instances of compassion, including corporate compassion, and some exciting research on the positive results and benefits of caring.  She then turns her attention to us, members of the management research profession and ask the question of 揥hat does compassion mean for us? Why should we care? The presentation will end with a challenge to all management researchers to take up the courage of engaging in more compassionate research and less dispassionate research because the worth of scholarship has to be proven by its service to society.

Biography

ANNE S TSUI is the Motorola Professor of International Management Emerita, Arizona State University and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is the recipient of the ASQ, AMJ and JOM best paper awards, and one of the most cited authors in management. She was the 14^th Editor of theAcademy of Management Journal, founding and current editor-in-chief ofManagement and Organization Review, the 67^th President of the Academy of Management, and Founding President of the International Association for Chinese Management Research. Her recent publications include research articles on CEO values, employment relationships, and social networks, the revised edition of Empirical Methods in Management and Organization Research, and a new book titled. In Search of Truth and Beauty: A Research Journey of Anne S. Tsui (Peking University Press, 2012).

PRE-REGISTRATION

Due to limited space, we encourage early application and pre-registration. The registration will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please apply as early as possible to book your place. The workshop is free for (school) faculty members, doctoral students, and IACMR PAID members. If you would like to get free admission to this workshop and enjoy benefits to future workshops sponsored by IACMR, please go to IACMR website (www.iacmr.org or www.iacmr.org/english.php ) and sign up as a member to take advantage of numerous membership services including a free online subscription to Management and Organization Review.

Please contact Irene Zhang at iacmrmembership@pku.edu.cn (or 010-62758824) for any questions.

Click here to start the application for the seminar at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Oct. 10, 2012), Registration Deadline: Oct. 7, 2012

Click here to start the application for the seminar at Fudan University (Oct. 23, 2012), Registration Deadline: Oct. 19, 2012