ORBH Students in the Media:
Greer Jordan
Transitioning to the doctor-hood:
David Bright, with the dissertation titled “Forgiveness and Change: Proactive Employee Responses to Discomfiture in a Unionized Trucking Company”
Elizabeth Essex, with a study “ The Corporate Journey Towards Environmental and Social Responsibility: Contradictions, Activism and Intuitive Vision”
Ned Powley, with his work “Witnessing Crisis: Mechanisms of Organizational Resilience”
Elizabeth Stubbs, with her dissertation titled “Emotional Intelligence Competencies in the Team and Team Leader: A multi-level examination of the impact of Emotional Intelligences as Group Performance”
Greer Jordan of the 2001 cohort was recently featured in Shaker Heights Magazine. Greer and her dissertation advisor, Diana Bilimoria, have obtained a National Science Foundation grant to find ways to encourage more women to enter academic careers in science and engineering. Their recent case study of a midwest university science department suggests that a successful work environment for women scientists emphasizes mentoring, collaboration, and substantive science over "flash." This atmosphere is producctive for both women and men. Greer explains: I wanted to develop approaches to get people to work together more effectively. We should be able to accomplish the organization's purpose and make it a place where people can enjoy their work, grow , and still have time for their families." (excerpted from Friedman-Romell, Shaker Heights Magazine, Nov-Dec. 2005,).
Margaret "Miggy" Hopkins
On August 29, 2005, the Plain Dealer featured an article about one of our graduates, Margaret "Miggy" Hopkins:
Cleveland will say goodbye to a rare public servant when Chairwoman Margaret Hopkins steps down from the city school board Sept. 16. Hopkins, who has served on the board since mayoral control of the district began in 1998, has distinguished herself as a thoughtful, tireless leader of impeccable integrity. A specialist in organizational behavior and management, she is leaving Cleveland to teach at the University of Toledo.
Student news and views:
Latha Poonamallee: "The Dark Side of Water: A struggle for access and control", a critical teaching case that she and Anita Howard co-wrote received the best case award in CMS Dark Side Case Study Competition at AOM 2005. They are still receiving requests for copies of the case as well as permission for use in their classes from institutions all over the world.
Allison Gundersen chaired the program committee for the New Doctoral Student Consortium at AOM in Honolulu, which was a success.
Alum Energy
Harlow Cohen’s new book, “The Dinosaur in the Living Room: Achieving Positive Change by Tackling the Obvious”, was published in August 2005.
BAWB News
Judy Rodgers, Executive Director for B•A•W•B, writes (excerpted from the BAWB website):
Over 60 people from places as far flung as Australia and Denmark converged on Weatherhead on November 11 and 12 , 2006 for a two-day Positive Design workshop on "Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens". Conference organizers proposed using the conference to advance a scholarship of design and positive change in human organizations that involves social and technological elements and fosters betterment in human organizations and communities. They advocated approaches that focus less on detection of error and control of chronic problems and more on the potential of designing hopeful organizations with more human centered technologies. The conference was sponsored by Weatherhead's center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit and the Information Design Studio.
The conference opened and closed with presentations by those involved with the design of the conference, General Chairs, Richard Boland and David Cooperrider, and Program Chairs, Kalle Lyytinen and Michel Avital, from Weatherhead's Information Systems department.
The plenaries varied widely, with presenters from each of the three disciplines framing perspectives on their field. Dr. Cho from Seoul National University in Korea offered a thoughtful framework of design principles applied to a range of human systems from the local to the global. Lynn Markus, the John W. Poduska, Sr. Chair of Information Management at Bentley College, addressed the way the internet fails and succeeds at providing customer interface for businesses, at one point offering a slide from the New York Times on how to reach a human being in the labyrinth of options in corporate voice mail schemata. Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps demonstrated a new proprietary software program they have developed which offers dynamic views of the organization chart of client organization which morphed as a cursor moved to focus on different levels of the organization.
Some of the design elements came from scholars in the organizational theory area. Nancy Adler, global leadership professor from McGill University, offered a slide show of her watercolors with quotations from many of the world's leaders. Friday night, after dinner at the Intercontinental Hotel, Frank Barrett, an alumnus of both Weatherhead's Organizational Behavior department and the Tommy Dorsey band, and currently on the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, manned a grand piano for an extemporaneous lesson on the links between jazz improve and organizational theory.
Conference organizers are planning for the writings from the conference to form a special issue in the journal Information and Organization and a second book in the Elsevier publishing series for Leaders of Change --Advances in Appreciative Inquiry. Further information about the conference and recordings of the plenary sessions are available at http://weatherhead.case.edu/design.
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