ARKANSAS 2017
The Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace hosted the 2017 IAMSR Conference in May of 2017.
Hope you enjoy and learn browsing through the sessions as much as we did putting them together for you!! However, you missed on our social program, the highlight of which was an evening at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened its doors especially for us.
Conference Schedule
Thursday, May 18
- 4:20PM—5:50PM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions (All Conference Buildings)12:45PM—1:25PM – Opening and welcome to the conference by Matthew Waller, Dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the Conference Planning Leadership (RCED Auditorium)
- 1:25PM—2:15PM – Leading with Soul, a Keynote by Lee Bolman (RCED Auditorium)
- 2:30PM—4:00PM – Evangelical Protestantism: The Tension Between Grace and Truth
- Symposium – Meditation and Mindfulness in Teaching Leadership (RCED Auditorium)
- Symposium – Business Schools and the Inner Life: A Contradiction in Terms? (RCED 111)
- Paper Session – Ethics, Faith and Spirituality (RCED 117)
- Educating for Character and Moral Clarity: Religion as a Transformative Vehicle for Inclusion (Case, Chavez)
- Reconnecting Ethics and Spirituality: From Illusion Towards a Responsible and Prophetic Leadership (Izoard)
- How Religion Influences Business Students’ Ethical Practices (Shook)
- Faith at Work: Assessing the State of Movement in 2017 (Miller, LoRusso)
- Paper Session – Theological and Religious Perspectives (RCED 202)
- Reintegrating Spirit and Matter Using Jung’s Drive Theory and Archetypes (Chappell)
- Lessons from the Quakers: A Contemporary Approach to Multi-Stakeholder Business Practice (Burton)
- Self-Leadership: From the Buddha’s Teaching Perspective (Pizzaro)
- “Meet people at eye level” – The Franciscan Tradition for Business Education (Dienberg)
- PDW – The Legacy of Andre Delbeq’s Course, “Spirituality and Business Leadership” (RCED 103) (Schindler, Winkler)
Friday, May 19
8:30AM—9:30AM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
- Symposium – Spirituality in Human Resources (RCED Auditorium)
- PDW – Publishing Workshop (RCED 111) (Phillipson)
- PDW – Maintaining Wellness and Self-Care While in Pursuit of Academia, Ministry, and a Personal Life: A Guide for Early Career Professionals (RCED 117) (Terrell, Hall)
- PDW – Creating a Community of Scholars (RCED 202) (Harris)
9:40AM—10:40AM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
- Symposium – Transformative Curricula (RCED Auditorium)*
- Symposium – Spirits Fly Under the Radar: Teaching Spirituality When Nobody is Looking—Lessons, Encouragements, Warnings (RCED 117)*
- Symposium – Educating for Meaning Making (RCED 202)
- PDW – Moving Out Loud: Using Somatic Movement Education to Cultivate Authenticity and Empathy (RCED 103) (Leggat—Roper)
- PDW – The Co-Created Classroom: Developing Students Through Coaching (RCED 111) (London)
- 10:50AM—11:40AM – Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace: My Perspective, a Keynote by John H. Tyson (RCED Auditorium)
12:00PM—1:30PM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
- Symposium – Chaplain’s Panel (RCED Auditorium)
- Symposium – Spirituality and Entrepreneurship (RCED 111)
- PDW – Using Mindfulness and Meditation to Open Minds and Hearts: An Experiential Personal Development Workshop (RCED 117) (Reina, Robison, Harris)
- PDW – Inner Challenges of Leadership in the Face of Uncertainty and Complexity: Transcending the Crucible of Anxiety (RCED 202) (Levy)
- Paper Session – Leadership (RCED 203)
- Global Leadership for Sustainability (Fry, Egel)
- Does Faith Matter for Different Dimensions of Career Success? A comparative 23-country study (Mayrhofer, Steinbereithner)
- Resilience Leadership Processes during Cosmology Episodes (O’Grady)
- 2:30PM—2:45PM – Meditation by Gary Boelhower (RCED Auditorium)
- 2:45PM—2:55PM – 2017 IAMSR Conference Best Paper presented by Springer
- 2:55PM—4:25PM – Andre Delbeq’s Legacy to Management, Spirituality and Religion
- 8:30PM—9:15 PM – Developing Leaders: Art as Medicine for the Soul, a Keynote by Kathryn Pavlovich (Crystal Bridges Great Room)
Saturday, May 20
9:00AM—10:30AM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
- Symposium – Faith at Work: Assessing the State of the Movement (WCOB 234) (Miller/LoRusso)
- PDW – Nominal Group Technique and Other Transformative Classroom Activities (WCOB 240)
- Paper Session – Cross-Cultural Human Resources and Theoretical Perspectives (WCOB 241)
- The Impact of Distinct Attributes of Abrahamic Religions on Leadership (Gümüsay)
- 3rd Person Spirituality: Role of Spirituality Agents of Shamans in Business (Jeong)
- Leadership of Renunciation: A Hindu Perspective of Overcoming Employee Disengagement (Paresh)
- Through the Wardrobe Door: Spiritual and Religious Analogues of Object Fascination in Early Development of Scientific Careers (Almond)
- PDW – Working With Shadow in Developing Leadership (Chappell)
10:50AM—11:50AM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
- Symposium – Practical Mystery: Living the Connection of Spirit and Practice (WCOB 234)
- PDW – Death by PowerPoint: How to Stop Killing the Effectiveness of Your Presentations (WCOB 235) (Lockard)
- PDW – Stop Teaching (WCOB 240) (Rimanoczy)
- PDW – Conflict and Avoidance – How Spirituality Enables Conscious Choices and Outcomes (WCOB241) (Rose)
- PDW – Creating Leadership through an EdgUcation Paradigm (WCOB 239) (Tongel, Julin, Neal)
- PDW – Reflective Believing and Interfaith Dialogue (WCOB 243) (Miller)
1:00PM—2:00PM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
- PDW – Beyond Leadership: Is There Life after Leadership? (WCOB 234) (Toomey)
- PDW – Mindfulness and Faculty Development (WCOB 235) (Senna/Venzke)
- PDW – Educating for Moral Clarity and Character: Deepening Compassion by Understanding World Views (WCOB 240) (Cotter-Lockard)
- Paper Session – Measurement and Methods (WCOB 241)
- PDW – Face the Music: Songwriting as a Tool for Getting at the Unspoken in Corporate Training Sessions (WCOB 239) (Kwiecinski)
- Paper Session – Case Studies (WCOB 243)
- Crossing the Chasm to Open Heart Skills in Medical Practice: A Case Study of Personaland Organizational Transformation (Ellis, Brown)
- Constructing a Spiritual Research Model in Management and Organization Research: a case of the Quakers (Burton)
- The Significant Living Mystery Within the Insignificant: A Case Study (Murray)
2:15PM—3:15PM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
- PDW – Workshop on Fetzer Institute’s Efforts to Build a Spiritually-grounded Community (WCOB 234) (Li, Hillebrand)
- PDW – Cultivating Spirituality and Leadership Through Student Use of Technology (WCOB 235) (Weaver, Burton)
- PDW – The Ultimate Leadership Decision (WCOB 240) (O’Neal)
- Paper Session – Change Management (WCOB 241)
- The Spiritual Transformation of Organizations and Self (Kriger)
- God Image as Leader Prototype: Religions Values and Leader/Employee Relationships (Luckman)
- Tempered Radicals: Spiritual Individuals as Change Agents for Organizational Ethicality (McGhee)
- PDW – How does Emotional Intelligence Feel? Bridging Conceptual Understanding and Practice Based Experience in Teaching Management Spirituality (WCOB 239) (Lychnell)
- Paper Session – Research Results (WCOB 243)
- Exploring Church Attendance, Faith, and Entrepreneurship of Late Adolescent Catholics (Bryant)
- Spirituality in the Workplace: An Investigation of Chaplaincy Experience (Morton)
- Higher Education and Workplace Spirituality: A Quantitative Analysis of Job Satisfaction and Workplace Spirituality among University Faculty and Staff (Jones, Neal, Longstreth)
3:30PM—5:00PM – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
- PDW – Focusing the Change Process by Climbing the Labyrinth Within (WCOB 234) (Boelhower)
- PDW – Penetrating the “MEAN GREEN vMEME”: Using the Spiral to Create Better Discourse (WCOB 235) (Lockard)
- PDW – Using Synchronicity Experiences for Transformative Change (WCOB 240) (Brown)
- PDW – Educating for Character and Moral Clarity: Engaging in Moral Conversations about Sensitive Topics (WCOB 239) (Case, Chavez)