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An
International Conference on
Leadership Through the Gender Lens:
Women, Men and Equality in Organisations
October 22 – 23, 2009
Venue: Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
Organisers:
NASTA Women’s Leadership, Education and Development project. The aim of NASTA
is to promote research, develop university teaching and engage in societal
outreach on women’s leadership. NASTA is a co-operative project between three
Finnish universities:
Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki
Helsinki School of Economics
Jyväskylä University, School of Business and Economics
The project is funded by the Ministry of Education (2005-2009).
NASTA
website: http://www.nastaproject.fi.
Leadership and management remain highly gendered. The differential relations
of women and men to leadership and management are a key question for both
theory and practice. This international conference brings together critical
analyses and debates on gender, leadership and management. How leadership and
management are gendered can mean more gender equal or more gender unequal
conditions for women and men. It can also enhance the quality and value of
leadership. The overall aim of the conference is to generate new thinking,
policy and action about women, men, gender and leadership. Keynote speakers
include Professor Albert Mills, St. Mary’s University, Canada, Professor
Susan Vinnicombe, Cranfield University, UK, and Professor Anna Wahl, Royal
Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Paper proposals are now invited to the conference. We plan to provide a
creative forum for interaction between scholars and researchers on
leadership, organisation and management, together with managers of different
kinds from business, government and community. HR managers and other
practitioners with an interest in theoretically-informed research will find
much of interest.
Contributions may be drawn from a wide spectrum, including organization and
management studies, human resource management, public sector management,
feminism, equality studies, intersectional studies, business studies,
postcolonial studies, sociology, industrial relations, marketing,
entrepreneurship, innovation, education, psychology and philosophy. We
encourage the presentation of case studies, ethnographies, action research
projects and innovative research methodologies. Topics include gendered
contributions on:
· management/leadership development and management education
· impact of social, political and economic change
· organisational change, interventions and innovations
· international, transnational and comparative studies
· media images and representations of gender and leadership
· academia and scientific organisations
· organisational culture
· postcolonialism and diversity
· organisational justice and ethics
· work-life reconciliation
· discrimination and harmful leadership
The conference is structured to ensure participants have time to create
research contacts, meet new people, discuss issues and network widely. Panels
and roundtables provide a robust exchange of ideas.
The conference language is English, but a few practitioner-oriented sessions
will be organized in Finnish. There is no conference fee but travel and
accommodation should be funded by the participants themselves.
Abstracts of paper proposals (max 250 words) with a biographical note (max
100 words) should be sent by April 30, 2009 by email to Liisa Husu, liisa.husu@hanken.fi
Presenters
will be notified on acceptance early June.
Practical information on the conference, including registration (by September
1, 2009), will be on the NASTA website http://www.nastaproject.fi/
All inquiries should be directed to NASTA project manager Liisa Husu, liisa.husu@hanken.fi
NASTA project management group
Professor Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics
Professor Anna-Maija Lämsä, Jyväskylä University
Professor Sinikka Vanhala, Helsinki School of Economics
Project Manager Liisa Husu, Hanken School of Economics
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