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Academy of Management Review (AMR) |
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Guest Editors: Sara Rynes, Jean Bartunek, Jane Dutton & Joshua Margolis
This call for papers comes at a time of great reflection and stock-taking. Organizations and governments are currently confronting the largest economic crisis and highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression, an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, declining natural resources, threatened ecosystems, and widespread commercial and political corruption. Trust in big business and business leadership is at an all-time low (Zuboff, 2009), as news reports make abundantly clear how little some businesses care about their consumers and employees. Further, employment relationships have become more contractual, fragile, and short-lived (Cappelli, 2008). Corporate downsizings have resulted in some workers having far too much work and stress, while others have no work at all. Increasing numbers of people work either in isolation from others (e.g., telecommuters) or in factories where they are tied to production lines or call centers with no time to converse with the people around them. Millions of global employees suffer from overwork, hunger, stress, and disease with little hope of a better future, while millions of employers compete for the same scarce (and dwindling) resources.
Yet, at this same time, the expectations of what businesses can contribute positively to the world have escalated, and many business leaders are calling for greater care and compassion in organizations. These include: CEOs of care-oriented and environmentally-sensitive companies that serve as models of how to combine profits with passion and compassion (Anderson & White, 2009; Chouinard, 2005; George, 2004); social entrepreneurs who combine the passion of a social mission with business discipline, innovation, and determination (Hawken, 2008; Yunus, 2003), and leaders of philanthropic-university partnerships such as the Omidyar Network-Tufts University collaboration or Paul Farmer and Harvard’s Partners in Health, to name just a few.
“Creating Caring and Compassionate Organizations” seeks to expand on these emerging trends by considering how the worlds of management, organizations, and management and organization scholarship might change if themes of compassion and caring were at the forefront of thinking about organizing. Submissions to the STF may take a range of formats and focus on different levels of analysis. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
• How might the themes of compassion and care be implemented alongside the rational and instrumental objectives of organizations? Where are the tensions and how might they be resolved? What conditions or events call forth compassion and care in organizations?
• How do compassion and care develop and get expressed in organizations, both internally and externally, and what difference do these feelings and behaviors make?
• For what kinds of organizations or in what kinds of contexts are care or compassion most important?
• Can organizations be compassionate and caring, or can only people exemplify these qualities?
• Through what processes might compassion and care improve employee performance and organizational success?
• How might caring, compassionate business missions spur organizational innovation?
• How do caring and compassion influence employee health and well-being?
• What new theories might be created around the ideas of compassion and caring in job and organizational design?
• How might theories of organizational effectiveness change when compassion and care are included in the criterion set?
• How do compassion and care affect interactions and outcomes at different levels of analysis (e.g., individual, dyad, group, organization, inter-organizational and cross-society)?
• The respective roles of business, academia, government, and non-governmental organizations in pursuing more compassionate management practices
• What are the potential downsides of emphasizing care and compassion in organizations? |
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All submissions should be uploaded to the Manuscript Central/Scholar One website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amr between September 1 and October 31, 2010. Please do not submit your article prior to September 1 or after October 31. Contributions should follow the directions for manuscript submission described in “Information for Contributors” in the front of each issue of AMR and on the AMR web page.
For queries about submission, contact AMR’s managing editor, Susan Zaid: szaid@pace.edu. For questions regarding the content of this Special Topic Forum, write to one of the guest editors: Sara Rynes, Jean Bartunek, Jane Dutton, or Joshua Margolis. |
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call for papers |
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October 31, 2010 |
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October 31, 2011 |
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http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amr
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| Contact Info: |
Susan Zaid
phone: (914) 944-2970
email address: szaid@pace.edu
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