Final Schedule Day 1: Monday, January 9, 2012 06:30-07:30 Maha Ganapathy Homam in the Management Development Center (All are welcome to attend) 08:20: Vedic Chants by Jayarama Sastrigal and his Team 08:30-09:20 Opening Sessions Session Chair: Ramnath Narayanswamy (IIM Bangalore) Vedic Invocation and Lighting of the Lamp Introduction to the Conference - Professor Ramnath Narayanswamy Welcome by Professor Pankaj Chandra, Director, IIM Bangalore Address by Yogi Ashwini of the Dhyan Foundation Introduction to the day - Professor Yochanan Altman 9:30-10:30 Session 1 Session Chair: Yochanan Altman (Bordeaux) David A. Schwerin (Suzhou University of Science and Technology - Tianjin Normal University) Enlightened Business Leadership in an Interconnected World Sandra K. Kauanui (Florida Gulf Coast University) and Cynthia L. Sherman (Claremont Graduate University), K. D. Thomas, K. Perkins, & A. Rubens The Spiritual Entrepreneur Alka Singh Bhatt (Amity University) Spirituality in the Workplace: Soul at Work 10:30-11:30 Session 2 Session Chair: Wolfgang Myerhofer (W-U Wien) Lidia Hernández López (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), with Pablo Zoghbi Manrique de Lara, & Petra De Saá-Pérez Spiritual Values in the Practice of a University: The Case of ULPGC S. Rajasingh (Alpha College of Engineering, Chennai) Challenges of Spiritual Conviction on Academic Leadership Evelina Wahlqvist and Sanne Aronsson: Personal Sustainability 11:30-11:50 Break for Tea and Coffee 11:50-13:15 Session 3 Session Chair: Sandra Kauanui (Florida Gulf Coast University) Anne Gombault (BEM-Bordeaux Management School) Spirituality in Tourism: A Quest for Existential Authenticity Emma Bell (Exeter Business School) with John Cullen (National University of Ireland) & Scott Taylor (Exeter Business School) Sustainability and the Spiritual Work Ethic J.K. Sharma (Jagsonpal Pharmaceuticals Limited) The Role of Spiritual Leadership and Workplace Spirituality in Better Organizational Performance: An Improvement over an Existing Construct
Queralt Prat-i-Pubill and Josep Maria Lozano ((ESADE Business School) Shattering an Illusory House. The Radical Contribution from SMR to Happiness Research 11:50-13:15 Parallel Session 3b: Session Chair: Professor Peter Pruzan (Copenhagen Business School) Venue: The Central Pergola Devendra Chowdary (Infosys) Practical Approaches to Embedding Spirituality in Management Education Shradha Kanwar (NIIT University) It All Begins With I Manokaran (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai) An analysis of Organizational Stress and Academic Stress with the help of Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution method Febin Ismail (Dept. of Management Studies, Alpha College of Engineering, Chennai) Psychology of Well-Being and Human Factor Gaurav Gupta (Punjab University) Role of Mythology in Indian Corporate Culture M. Goel (Kurukshetra University) Relevance of Bhagavad Gita for Modern Management Education 13:30-14:30 Lunch 15:00-15:50 Session 4 Session Chair: Yochanan Altman (Bordeaux) Mary McBride (Pratt Institute of Design, USA), with Richard P. Green, Denise C. Tahara, & Giselle Carr Engaging the Spirit of Enterprise: Life-Centered Leadership Development Ramnath Narayanswamy (IIM, Bangalore) Education and Knowledge in the Search for Self Revelation Henk Ven der Heide (Nyenrode University, The Netherlands) An Integral Approach to Network-Centric Innovation Mary McBride Living Life as if it Mattered 16:00-17:00 Discussion groups on the five paper groups of the day (an opportunity to continue and deepen the discussions of the day. Each paper group will have its own round-table) Venue: Open air Auditorium 17:00 Session Chair: Ramnath Narayanswamy (IIM Bangalore) Peter Pruzan (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Towards The Wellspring: A Professor's Transformative Path From Rationality Via Morality To Spirituality 17:20 Reflections on the day: W. Mayrhofer (W-U Vienna) Close: 17:30
18:15 Book Release in the Auditorium Title of Book: Sanatan Kriya: The Ageless Dimension by Yogi Ashwini 19:00 Evening performance: Bharat Natyam Dance Performance by Rukmani Vijaykumar in the Auditorium Dinner: 20:30
Day 2: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 07:00-07:30 (Experiential Session) Anurag Chhabra (IBM, India) Bhutshuddhikriya: Yogic Tool to Develop Art of Positive Thinking Location: Yoga Room of the Management Development Center 08:30: Prayer by Father Mathew Chandrankunnel 08:45 Introduction to the day (Professor Ulla Johansson) 09:00-10:00 Session 5 Session Chair: Ulla Johansson (University of Gothenburg) Blandine Vanderlinden and Pierre Dupriez ((ICHEC Brussels Management School) Spirituality, Paradigm & Transcendence; Researching Management Spirituality Katalin Illes (Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom) Connecting Rationality and Spirituality in Business Education Priya Baguant (University of Mauritius) The Way Forward - The Impact of Wellness Program at MBA level 10:00-10:30 Address by Her Holiness Srimad Sai Rajarajeshwari Amma 10:30-10:50: Break for Tea and Coffee 10:50-12:00 Session 6 Session Chair: Professor Chetan Subramanian (IIM Bangalore) Aggi Anand (Institute of Management, Kerala) Along The Path of Practical Vedanta towards Organisational Transformation - Expedition to A Spiritually Enlightened Workplace Guda Surya Prakash Rao (Osmania University, Hyderabad) Can A Corporate Leader Achieve Partial or Total Enlightenment? What Is To Be Done? - An Empirical Study Nandini Shekhar (Christ University, Bangalore) Business Management and Spiritual Evolution: A Journey from Work to Worship 12:00-13:00 Session 7 Session Chair: Trilochan Sastry, IIM Bangalore Walter Baets (University of Cape Town), with Erna Oldenboom Towards The Concept of the High Health Organization: Consciousness And Coherence In Corporate Success Melanie HF Rogers with Janice E. Jones (University of Huddersfield, UK) Spirituality in Healthcare: An Inter Disciplinary Evaluation D. Chattopadhyay (Globsyn Business School, Kolkata) Impact of Spirituality Aspect of Leadership on Spiritual Climate Of The Teams And Its Plausible Linkages With Corporate Governance
13:10-14:20 Lunch Break 14:30-15:30 Session 8a Session Chair: Professor G. Sabarinathan, IIM Bangalore Marie-Thérèse Claes (Louvain School of Management) Transgender Attitudes at the Workplace in Thailand In Reference To Buddhism Christina Schwabenland (University of Bedfordshire) Form and Function: The Relationship of Values and Practices In Voluntary Organisations Working Across Divided Communities Susan Furness (Strategic Solutions, Dubai) No Alien: A Woman's Journey in the Gulf, Over Three Decades JM Sampath, Arpitha, Why is Spirituality Important? 14:30-15:45 Parallel Session 8b Session Chair: Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan, IIM Bangalore Location: Central Pergola Subhash Sharma (Indian Business Academy, Bangalore) From Science in Management (SIM) to Spirituality in Management (SIM): Towards Management by Higher Consciousness Natasha Kalra (Jain University, Bangalore) Contemporary Spirituality K.S. Raghuveer (GITAM Institute of Management, VIZAG) Spirituality and the Environment Simanchal Mohanty (TASMAC, Kolkata) The Spiritually Enlightened Workplace Rashi Taggar (Mata Vaishno Devi University, Kakryal) Impact of Happiness and Spirituality at Work Place: An Empirical Study 15:45-16:00 Afternoon Break 16:00-17:00 Discussion groups on the five paper groups of the day (an opportunity to continue and deepen the discussions of the day. Each paper group will have its own round-table) Venue: Open air auditorium (behind the main Auditorium) 17:10 Reflections on the day (Sandra Kauanui, Florida Gulf Coast) in the Auditorium 17:20 Close Evening performance by Lathyranga: 7 pm in the Auditorium (Please be seated by 18:55 pm)
Day 3: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 07:00-07:30 Experiential Session Anurag Chhabra (IBM India) Bhutshuddhikriya: Yogic Tool to Develop Art of Positive Thinking Venue: Yoga Room (Management Development Center) 08:30: Invocations from the Holy Koran 08:40: Introduction to the day (Professor Yochanan Altman) 08:45: Address by Sri Shakti Narayani Amma 09:00-10:30 Session 9 Session Chair: Professor Srinivasan Rangan IIM Bangalore Rajiv Malhotra (University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth) Being Different Devendra Kumar Dwivedi (University Of Allahabad) Managing Spiritual Sustainability and Management mind: Steps towards Revelation for Becoming Excellent Professional M. Srividya and N.S. Vijayalakshmi (Mangalore) Practical Approaches to Embedding Spirituality in Management Education 10:30-10:45: Break for Tea and Coffee 10:45-12:00 Session 10a Session Chair: Dr David Schwerin (Suzhou University of Science and Technology - Tianjin Normal University) Debaprasad Chattopadhyay (Glosbyn Business School) Impact of Spiritual Leadership on Governance Ashish Pandey (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai) Learning in Teams: The Impact of Spiritual Climate Wendy Appel (Confluence Consulting, Majorca) An Inside Out Leader s Story: Coaching with the Enneagram K P Suresh, Greed, Sustainability and Education Kalpana Sampath, The Path to Inner Consciousness through Kriya 10:45-12:00 Parallel Session 10b Session Chair: Professor Srinivas Prakhya IIM Bangalore Ravulaparthy Ramarao (VignanaJyothi Institute of Management (VJIM), Hyderabad) Spirituality A Solution Path for Management Challenges from Multiple Manifestations of I A. Ramesh (VignanaJyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad) Embedding Spirituality for Professionals A Study Using Movies as Pedagogy M D Santhosh (City Project Officer, KSDMA, Kerala) Sree Narayanaguru s perspectives on Business and society: CSR curricula in Business school? Ankit Kumar Patidar with Anand Singh Rajawat (Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh) Organization Performance Improvement through Yoga 12:00 to 12:15 Break for Tea and Coffee
12:15-13:15 session 11 Session Chair: Professor Mary McBride, Pratt School of Design Simon Robinson (Leeds Metropolitan University) Spirituality and Responsibility in Business Ananda das Gupta (Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore) The Role of Mythology in Indian Corporate Culture Rangan Srinivasan (IIM-Bangalore) On Developing Holistic Education: Empirical Study and Recommendation 13:15-14:15 Lunch Break 14:15-15:30 session 12a Session Chair: Professor JM Sampath Malay Biswas (Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak) New Agenda for HR Practitioners: Deriving From the Recent Advancement Of Positive Organization Behavior Research Krishnamurthy Prabhakar (Velammal Engineering College) Measuring Values: An Empirical Study and Application to Business Process Outsourcing Employees Myriam Maestroni (Economie d Energie, Paris) The Economy of Economizing Pranjali Madhur (Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune) Spirituality at Workplace-Key to Success 14:15-15:30 session 12b Session Chair: Professor Wolfgang Mayrhofer (W-U, Vienna) Seema Gupta (UGC), (Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow) Spirituality: The Missing Link in Management Education G Kunnath & Joseph George (Leadership Consultant, Bangalore) Spiritual Intelligence in Emerging Leadership Christian Appelt (SKF Group, Gothenburg, Sweden) Balance, the happy way of why! - Do you have balance in life? Are you most of the time happy? Why is that? Usha C.Rani (Hyderabad) Quest for Happiness-Needing Model VS Giving Model Introducing 3rd JMSR/AMSR conference in Lourdes, France 16:00-16:50 discussion groups on the six paper groups of the day Venue: Open air Auditorium 17:00-17:10 Anne Gombault (BEM) introducing our 3 rd conference in Lourdes, France In the Auditorium 17:10-17:30 Ramnath Narayanaswamy and Yochanan Altman: Final Reflections 17:30 Close
POINTS TO REMEMBER 1. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served in a separate Dining Hall next to the Reception, unless otherwise indicated. 2. Registration Desks are available both at the Reception of the Management Development Center as well as the Auditorium. 3. All sessions will be held in the Auditorium. It is located between the D and E Block. 4. Parallel Sessions will be held in the Central Pergola. 5. Ask the Reception for Directions. 6. Please feel free to walk around and explore the campus. The weather is outstanding at this time of the year with a touch of chill during the night. 7. All participants will be issued with a conference tool kit containing a CD of all the papers and spiritual and institutional literature. 8. Our rooms are comfortable and equipped with hot and cold water. 9. We have a hundred acre campus. It is equipped with a provision store, a fruit and vegetable outlet, a post office, a bank, (branch of the State Bank of Mysore), a canteen, a restaurant, a Coffee Day outlet where tea, coffee and refreshments are available through working hours and another snack bar near the Students Hostel. There is also an Amul outlet where all kinds of sealed and branded delicacies are available including ice creams, milk shakes and other items. The campus also boasts of badminton and tennis court, a running track and a gymnasium and a Yoga Room. The Health Center is located in the Main Building. There is a Doctor on call in working hours. 10. We take pride is serving you. We are at your service. If in doubt, please do not hesitate to write or call.
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion PERSONAL SUBSCIPTION for Vol. 9, 2012 SUBSCRIPTION INCLUDES ON-LINE ACEESS TO THE FOUR ISSUES OF 2012 + ON-LINE ACCESS TO ALL PREVIOUS ISSUES Price: $US 100 Payable during the conference to Yochanan Altman in cash. Thereafter through the AMSR website managingdifferently.info (under construction) Special price for Indian delegates only during the conference: 4200 INR in cash to Yochanan Altman