Transformative authority for sustainable organisations

15^th International Group Relations Conference (ALI)

29 March – 1 April 2012 Villa Cagnola, Gazzada ( near Milan) – Italy

Navigare nel mondo lavorativo di oggi richiede un’ autorità adattabile a un contesto tecnico, culturale e socio-politico in continua trasformazione. Chi opera nelle organizzazioni ha bisogno di bilanciare un approccio collaborativo e connesso al mondo esterno con la capacità di competere su piani diversi. Attraverso l’organizzazione temporanea della Conference sarà possibile sperimentare, partecipare e riflettere su dinamiche di collaborazione, interdipendenza e competizione con l’obiettivo di migliorare le proprie capacità di trasformare e sviluppare i sistemi organizzativi in cui operiamo.

I partecipanti della conference avranno l’opportunità di:

• Esplorare aspetti emotivi e irrazionali della vita organizzativa e l’impatto che ciascuno di noi ha sugli altri

• Sperimentare diversi ruoli e livelli di autorità in contesti e situazioni differenziate

• Riconoscere e riflettere sugli aspetti sistemici della vita organizzativa

• Sviluppare capacità di trasformare il proprio ruolo e contesto organizzativo

• Generare nuove idee e modalità d’intervento per creare organizzazioni sostenibili

 Training Group: e’ previsto un gruppo per persone che abbiano partecipato ad almeno due Group Relations Conferences.

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Programma completo ALI 2012

Navigating today’s world of work requires an adaptable authority in the context of continuous technical, cultural, and socio-political transformation. Members of organisations need to balance a collaborative approach connected to the outside world with an ability to compete on different levels. Through the temporary organisation of the Conference it will be possible to experiment, participate, and reflect on the dynamics of collaboration, interdependence and competition, with the aim of improving one’s capacity to transform and develop organisational systems.

Conference participants will have the opportunity to:

• Explore the emotional and irrational aspects of organisational life as well as the impact that each of us has on others

• Experiment with different roles and levels of authority in diverse contexts and situations

• Recognise and reflect on the systemic aspects of organisational life

• Develop  an ability to transform their roles and organisational contexts

• Generate  new ideas and methods of intervening to create sustainable organisations

Training Group: there will be a different group for people who have participated in at least two Group Relations Conferences

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Complete agenda of ALI 2012

Sarà possibile iscriversi dal 20 ottobre. Per informazioni info@cesma.edu

Se il tema dell’abstract vi fa risuonare vostre esperienze, mi farà piacere citarle.

Krakow 2011

http://www.sietareu.org/congress-2011

Interculturalism Ahead: Transition to a Virtual World?
Krakow, Poland, September 21-25, 2011

The cultural dimensions of encounters in virtual worlds

Sara DE ANGELIS – Educational Sciences Research Group

University Federico II, Naples

Elio VERA – Partner founder of CESMA Business School Milan

Intercultural Coach – Executive Corner Editor

of CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT

Real and virtual mobility. The sense of cultural identity in the internet.

In virtual world, many aspects of communication are modified: individuation, perception of space and time make re- think the relation between the sense of belonging to a community, to an ethnic space, and leads to the change of concept of nomadism and territoriality.

The possibility of moving, travelling in many ways may modify the concept of citizenship, putting the premises to a kind of physical, intellectual and cultural nomadism (Pinto Minerva, 2002). At a first glance, this mechanism may affect a cultural identity shared with the community of origin; but this is not always true, if we consider the possibility of using the internet to get in touch with the homeland, with family or friends.

Thus, the first interpretations of internet as a social phenomena led to two different points of view: from one side, an enhancement of the construction of new virtual communities based on the separation of physical space and socialization; on the other side, the concern for the breaking of local social ties with a progressive process of isolation. Actually, recent researches would demonstrate that internet seems to be used most of all for professional purposes and for maintaining real and not virtual social relations (Castells, 2001).

Particularism and universalism, localism and globalism do not exclude each other, but may be sinthetized avoiding the risks of both cultural omologation and cultural identity obsession in a world in which people moves in virtual and real spaces . The workshop will stimulate a critical reflection on the personal relations in the internet, with a process of action/research.

http://www.cinemadifrontiera.it/