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Conferences
7th Conference on International Human
Resource Management
University of Limerick, Ireland
http://www.ihrm2003.com/
June 4-6, 2003
Limerick, Ireland
The conference will seek to present a complement
of academic and practitioner papers dedicated to
exploring the multidimensional and dynamic nature of
the field of International Human Resource Management
(IHRM). Contributions are invited in all areas of
international human resource management including
areas, such as:
- The current state of the field of
IHRM.
- Regional variations, convergence, and
divergence in HRM.
- HRM in the multinational enterprise.
- HRM strategy and performance.
- Contemporary issues in core functions of HRM,
such as recruitment and selection, appraisal and
performance management, rewards, and
HRD.
- The labor market and HRM including equality
issues, legal aspects, industrial relations and
employee representation, and flexible work
practices.
- Integrating information communication
technologies and HRM, such as e-HRM, e-business,
and human resource information systems.
- Contemporary issues in IHRM—expatriation,
intercultural adjustment and repatriation,
international careers, dual careers, knowledge
management and the psychological contract, and
organizational commitment.
2003 International Conference of the
International Society for Professional Innovation
Management
International Society for Professional Innovation
Management
http://ispim.org/ispim2003/
June 8-11, 2003
Museum of Science and Industry
Manchester, United Kingdom
The idea of organizations working together for
their mutual benefit is hardly a new one, but over
the last two decades there has been a huge increase
in collaborative activity between companies of
varying sizes. Unfortunately for a great many of the
businesses involved, it is an endeavor that will end
in failure. Recent research suggests that as many as
50-70% of strategic alliances will fail within four
years because of a vast array of cultural, political,
technological, and commercial factors.
This conference aims to address the issues associated
with collaboration. It will provide a forum for
academics, business people, and consultants to
discuss these issues in depth by presenting the
latest academic papers, delivering company
presentations on the subject, and running interactive
workshops.
2003 Conference on Agile
Development
AgileAlliance Corporation
http://agiledevelopmentconference.com/
June 25-28, 2003
Salt Lake City, UT
This conference deals with learning and sharing
techniques and practices for delivering
fit-for-purpose software, using people as the key
ingredient. This is the conference for discussing how
people can work together to create software—the
tools, techniques, practices, and issues involved.
Attendees will learn, share, and advance the state of
agile development practices, which is an emerging and
dynamic discipline. The overriding objective of the
conference is to spread knowledge about the state of
the art in agile development practices and provide a
forum for advancing the state of the art.
The conference will accomplish this objective by
providing a forum for the following:
- Create a sense of community in the agile
development movement.
- Share experiences and research across
disciplines.
- Welcome new members to the world of agile
development.
- Consolidate data about agile development to aid
future research and implementation.
Agile Development is a conference aimed at
exploring the human and social issues involved in
software development and the consequences of the
agile approach to developing software. The agile
approach focuses on delivering business value early
in the project lifetime while balancing the need to
incorporate late-breaking requirements changes and
respecting project deadlines. The agile methods
deliver running, tested systems in part by
accentuating the use of rich, informal communication
channels and attending to the human component of
software development. A number of techniques and
processes have been identified in the use of agile
approaches, and undoubtedly, more will be
found.
The purpose of this conference is to examine
closely the proposed processes and techniques, to
report the outcome of studies on human issues
affecting the speed and quality of the development,
and to collect field reports from projects using
agile approaches. The social-technical goal of the
conference is to increase the exchange on these
issues between researchers and practitioners, between
managers and developers, and between social
specialists and computer specialists.
57th Annual Quality Congress
American Society for Quality
http://aqc.asq.org
May 19-21, 2003
Kansas City, MO
This year’s AQC, “Expanding
Horizons,” features more than 100 educational
sessions on customer satisfaction, environmental
quality, health care quality, ISO 9001:2000, lean
principles, quality tools, risk management, Six
Sigma, software quality, standards, statistics, and
more. Keynote speakers include Horst Schulze, former
president and COO of the Baldrige Award-winning
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company; Dr. J. Gerald
Suárez, expert organizational designer and
systems thinker, who will discuss managing fear in
the workplace; and Clyde Fessler, former vice
president of business development for Harley-Davidson
Motor Company.
Web Sites
Center for Public Leadership
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership/aboutcpl.html
Launched in 2000 through a generous grant from the
Wexner Foundation, the Center for Public Leadership
has responded rapidly to the burgeoning interest in
leadership. The center is dedicated to excellence in
leadership education and research. It is equally
committed to bridging the gap between leadership
theory and practice.
The Center for Public Leadership provides a forum
for students, scholars, and practitioners committed
to the idea that effective public leadership is
essential to the common good. It creates
opportunities for reflection and discovery, and
promotes the dynamic exchange of ideas among those
from different disciplines, sectors, cultures, and
nations.
Greenleaf Center for
Servant-Leadership
http://www.greenleaf.org/
The Greenleaf Center is an international,
not-for-profit institution headquartered in
Indianapolis, IN. Its goal is to help people
understand the principles and practices of
servant-leadership; nurture colleagues and
institutions by providing a focal point and
opportunities to share thoughts and ideas on
servant-leadership; produce and publish new resources
by others on servant-leadership; and connect
servant-leaders in a network of learning.
The center’s mission is to fundamentally
improve the caring and quality of all institutions
through a new approach to leadership, structure, and
decision making. Servant-leadership emphasizes
increased service to others; a holistic approach to
work, promoting a sense of community; and the sharing
of power in decision making.
Ashoka
http://www.ashoka.org/home/
Ashoka’s mission is to develop the
profession of social entrepreneurship around the
world. Ashoka invests in people. It is a global
nonprofit organization that searches the world for
social entrepreneurs—extraordinary individuals
with unprecedented ideas for change in their
communities. Ashoka identifies and invests in these
social entrepreneurs when no one else will. It does
so through stipends and professional services that
allow Ashoka Fellows to focus full time on their
ideas for leading social change in education and
youth development, health care, environment, human
rights, access to technology, and economic
development.
Ashoka has invested in more than 1,200 Ashoka
Fellows in 44 countries. They have transformed the
lives of millions of people in thousands of
communities worldwide.
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