Schedule of Activities:  All CMS Doctoral Consortium activities will take place in the Marriott Rm 304 unless indicated otherwise.

 0800  -  0845               Panel Session: The Challenges of Being Critical

Albert Mills, Jean Helms Mills, and Stewart Clegg

 This interactive panel session is designed to highlight some of the challenges of being/becoming a critical scholar within the 21^st century Academy, and how to successfully ‘navigate’ them.

 0900  -  1000               Interactive Session: One on Ones

                                    Stewart Clegg, Bill Cooke, Alison Konrad, Steve Linstead, Albert Mills,

Jean Helms Mills, Roy Stager-Jacques, Robyn Thomas

 This session provides a venue for participants to meet and discuss issues of research, method, and methodology; or to seek solutions or advice concerning other critical issues from some of the leading critical scholars within the Academy.

 1000  -  1030               Coffee

 1030  -  1115               ‘Managing’ Critical Careers

                                    Ann Cunliffe, Pushkala Prasad, Bobby Banerjee

 This session is a panel presentation on how to build a successful career as a critical scholar.  Several highly successful critical scholars will open their black boxes and reveal their ‘secrets for success’.

 1130 – 1200                On Getting Published I

Stewart Clegg, Steve Linstead.

 This session is designed to relate to participants the experience of, and suitable guidance for, getting your critical work published.

 1200  -  1300               Lunch and Getting Published II

Lunch sponsored by Management Learning

                                    Ann Cunliffe,  TBA

 Building upon the previous session this ‘working’ lunch will feature editors from Management Learning and Organization, who will speak to publishing critical research in their journals.

 1300  -  1400   Common Session with GDO (Conference Centre Rm 111B)

             This panel session focuses on common areas of interest.

Roy Stager-Jacques, Erica Foldy, Albert Mills, Patrizia Zanoni

 1400  - 1700                Arriving at (Un) Common Grounds: 

Researching Workplace Diversity

Pushkala Prasad, Alison Konrad, Anshuman Prasad, Robin Ely, Jean

Helms Mills, Albert Mills. (Marriott Rm 307)

 Panelists will discuss their own experiences with diverse methods including surveys, interviews, ethnography and historical analysis with an emphasis on their application in understanding topics relating to workplace diversity. Each presentation will be followed by an open discussion in which the audience is encouraged to share their own experiences/concerns and ask questions about forging quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

 14:30  - 1700               Research Methods

Robert Gephart, Tojo Thatchenkery, Nancy Landrum, Carolyn Gardner, Marco Adria. (Marriott Rm 414/415)

The workshop assembles panelists who have engaged in critical research that addresses organization and management issues and that seeks to contribute to society at large.  Robert Gephart will discuss "Sensemaking and environmental risk management", a funded research project that addresses risk sensemaking.  The second presenter, Marco Adria, will discuss "Building the research relationship with communities" which is an important topic in his forthcoming book that addresses the role of technology in contributing to social identity in local and regional settings.  Tojo Thatchenkery will discuss "Using appreciative intelligence in critical research?"  In this presentation, Dr. Thatchenkery will discuss how the insights from his recent book Appreciative Intelligence can be applied in critical research.  Nancy Landrum will address her emerging qualitative research on the Hershey Company and Hershey Entertainment & Resorts.  This workshop will be organized so as to allow both for presentation and question sessions.

1800  -             CMS Social (Marriott Grand Ballroom I