Informal Complexity and Management Conferences (CMC)
CMC provides an opportunity for graduates of the Doctor of Management and Master of Arts programme to renew contacts with other graduates.
Sharing knowledge
Complexity and Management Conferences (CMC) offer the opportunity for all those interested to join in the conversation of a community interested in a complexity perspective on organisations and their management.
The design of the programme purposely limits formal inputs in the interest of leaving much time for participants to converse together on matters of interest.
Formal papers are therefore rarely presented although some reading may sometimes be suggested prior to attending. The quality of the conference therefore depends on the contributions of those attending.
Complexity and Management Conference - 2013
Exploring the Cult of Leadership – alternative ideas from relational and complex responsive processes perspectives
Complexity and Management Conference 7-9 June 2013
Complexity and Management Conference - 2012
Complexity and ethics: practical judgement in everyday politics
The financial crisis has provoked a great deal of discussion about fairness, reward and the ethics of management.
This is a change from the usual focus on managerial instruments, tools and techniques which can often crowd out ethical concerns.
Criticisms over the inadequacies in the way our organisations have been run has also revealed an inability to engage in ethical discussion.
Leaders and managers are largely at a loss as to what to do and how to behave, and sometimes even how to begin discussing ethical questions.
Everyone is feeling their way forward in the struggle over whose narrative of events predominates, and are relearning how to engage with each other in discussions of the good and the right.
There are very few models which will be of any use to help navigate unique and highly uncertain times. This makes a complexity perspective, complex responsive processes of relating, particularly relevant to this theme.
In this year’s conference we drew on both complexity and critical management traditions in trying to make sense of the situation we find ourselves in, particularly in relation to the theme of ethics.
We welcomed Professor Hugh Willmott from the University of Cardiff as our keynote speaker, who chose as his topic The Financialized Corporation: Moorings Lost and the Crises of Legitimacy.
Complexity and Management Conference - 2011
Power and Identity in Organisations
Dr Ian Burkitt of Bradford University (Social Selves: Theories of Self and Society, Sage, 2008; Bodies of Thought: Embodiment, Identity, Modernity, Sage, 1999) accepted our invitation to come and give a key note address to speak to this theme.