Working Conference on Authority, Organisation, Strategies & Politics of Relatedness

Working Conference on Authority, Organisation, Strategies & Politics of Relatedness by IIM Ahmedabad April 23-29

About the Organiser

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad or IIMA), is a public business school and an Institute of National Importance located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Established in 1961, the institute offers master’s degree programmes in management and agri-business management, a fellowship programme and a number of executive training programmes.

About the Conference

The Working Conference on Authority, Organisation, Strategies and Politics of Relatedness (AOSPOR) is organised by IIM Ahmedabad at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur from April 23-29, 2020.

IIM Ahmedabad offers this Working Conference on “AOSPOR” as an opportunity for accelerated, immersive and experiential learning to harvest insights into management and to develop leadership skills for change that cannot be taught through lectures, case studies or simulations. The primary purpose is building capabilities for strategy implementation and leadership challenges in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.

This Working Conference promotes the integration of intellectual capacity with emotional and cultural intelligence. It is an opportunity to examine different models of how groups, teams and organisations function and leadership styles. Our emphasis would be on connecting conscious agendas with unconscious dynamics and covert processes that lurk beneath the surface in organisations.

Learning Aims

• To co-create a ‘temporary institution’ where staff and members take up roles to study the development and exercise of authority, evolution of organisational logic and the discovery and invention of strategies from their lived experience in roles within the Conference institution.
• To enable the study of intra-group and inter-group dynamics and institutional relations that develop within the Conference as an organisation and understand connections of organisations to their social, political and economic environments.
• To facilitate opportunities for exploring the foundational processes of linking, connecting, relating, and networking as members of work groups concerned with influencing others and being influenced in the course of formulating and implementing strategies.
• To discover underlying groups, organisational and social dynamics and the interplay between tradition and change, stability and innovation, creativity and harmony that may, at times, be beyond immediate awareness and to formulate “working hypotheses” about covert processes beyond awareness.
• To reflect on insights and learning that arise from the perspective of building bridges with organisational roles to which members return after the Working Conference with a view to applying roles taken up within the conference to one’s own organisations and networks.

Who can Attend?

This Working Conference is for anyone interested in developing a deeper understanding of managerial and leadership processes in organisations and developing skills to cope with covert processes. There is no requirement of any particular previous experience or knowledge.

Willingness to learn from one’s experience by participating in the events and processes of the conference is expected. Participants may come from business, professions, public systems, finance, politics, diplomacy, sports, mass media, government, local authorities, NGOs, health services, social care, education, consultancy, justice, systems, religious orders, agenda-based activisms, and environmental organisations.

Practical Arrangements

A maximum of 48 places are available at this Working Conference. Hence we advise that you send your Nominations with fees sufficiently early to avoid any disappointment. If places are available, nominations may be accepted until 16:00 (Indian Standard Time) on  March 9, 2020. Every nomination will be acknowledged when received. Acceptance is not automatic.

Nominations received without fees are not considered

Fee (including accommodation and all meals)

Registration Fees

For Indian Participants: INR 1,95,000 plus 18% GST, amounting to INR 2,30,100.
For International Participants:
US$2785 plus 18% GST, amounting to US$3286
€2500 plus 18% GST, amounting to €2950.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellation (with refund of fee) are permissible until March 9, 2020. After March 9, 2020, there would be no refunds on cancellations.

Substitutions of nominees can be made also after March 9, 2020 until April 17, 2020.

How to Register?

Interested participants can send the completed nomination form to Ms Vidya Kadamberi, Conference Administrator, AOSPOR 2020, Executive Education Office, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, New Campus, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad – 380015

Registration Deadline    : –   March 9, 2020

Closing Date for Nominations  Monday, March 9, 2020

Note: See brochure for discount on registrations done by Saturday, June 29, 2019

Contact

Send the completed form to:

Ms. Vidya Kadamberi
Conference Administrator, AOSPOR 2020
Executive Education Office, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, New Campus, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad – 380015
• Phone: +91-79-6632 4466 • Mobile: +91- 70690 74821 • Fax: +91-79-2630 0352 • Email: vidyak@iima.ac.in

For more details refer the Official Website :   https://web.iima.ac.in/

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