Dr. ADIZES KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT EURAM 2008 CONFERENCE
Ljubljana and Bled, Slovenia, May 14 - May 17, 2008

CEEMAN and its member institutions the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana and the IEDC-Bled School of Management will host EURAM 2008 Conference on 14-17 May 2008, in Ljubljana and Bled, Slovenia.
The topic of the first EURAM Conference to be held outside of Western Europe is Managing Diversity: European Destiny and Hope.
The Adizes Institute is glad to inform you that Dr. Ichak Adizes has accepted the invitation to be a keynote speaker at this Conference.

GUEST SPEAKERS of EURAM 2008
At EURAM 2008 you will have the opportunity to discuss with the following world famous thinkers in management and associated field such as:

• Ichak Adizes, one of world leading authorities on change management whose theory is heavily based upon diversity, mutual respect and trust;
• Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Professor of International Political Economy at IMD in Lousanne, Founding Director of the EVIAN Group, a collation of business, government and opinion leaders committed to an open, inclusive, equitable and robust world economic agenda,
• Slavoj Zizek, world famous Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher and cultural critic, whose works cover a number of issues including those related to postmodernism, globalization, multiculturalism, tolerance, subjectivity, human rights, etc.
• Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, who will share his views and firsthand information on the European research policies to foster diversity and European competitiveness.
  Business perspective will be provided by a representative from the corporate world.

The Conference of the European Academy of Management is the largest European gathering of management researchers, scholars and practitioners, attracting more than 800 participants from all over the world.
In order to enable researchers from CEE to expose research approaches, methodologies, tools, and results from “the world’s largest laboratory of change” to a broader international audience, CEEMAN has agreed with EURAM to offer specially subsidized conference fees for CEEMAN members.

CEEMAN and EURAM also agreed that the EURAM 2008 Conference Program may include several tracks that will address issues specific to the transition and dynamically changing environments and the respective business and managerial practices and leadership development approaches and achievements.

In a dramatically changing world characterized by rapid globalization, unprecedented technological progress, and structural, institutional, demographic, sociological and psychological shifts, Europe is facing new challenges and searching for adequate responses and trying to achieve the ideal of building and sustaining global competitiveness while maintaining social harmony. This requires huge economic restructuring and equally dramatic social transformation. Geographic, historic, economic, institutional, demographic, cultural, and social differences make Europe the most diverse, heterogeneous, and in some aspects also the most fragmented, region in the world. Leading and managing change in such a context is both an exceptional challenge but also an opportunity.

The issue of operational excellence, standardization, and unification versus creativity and innovation, entrepreneurialism, and respect for culture and values is becoming increasingly important at the individual, organizational/institutional, and social levels as well. Creating a dynamic balance and possible synergies between these two apparently conflicting demands is a huge leadership and managerial challenge but also an intellectual one. At the same time it is also another opportunity, since diversity is an inexhaustible source of creativity, innovation, and breakthrough thinking.

European management theory and practice are lagging behind in terms of their focus on diversity and their implications for leading and managing change and developing managerial and leadership capabilities. The EURAM (European Academy of Management) 2008 Conference invites you to contribute to bridging the gap.

The gathering in Ljubljana and Bled will be the first EURAM Conference organized in the CEE region. As an association focused on change and which celebrates diversity and fosters creativity, innovation and respect for culture, CEEMAN, in cooperation with member institutions the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, and the IEDC-Bled School of Management, will bring a perspective from the CEE region - the world’s largest laboratory of change.

Join us in Ljubljana and Bled on 14 - 17 May 2008 to explore and discuss these issues in a highly diverse, multidisciplinary, multi-departmental, multi-institutional, and multicultural environment that you will yourself create by bringing and exposing your own approaches, views, research methodology, tools and results, experiences, philosophy, tradition, and values.
Diversity is the biggest European challenge but also its most fascinating opportunity!

For all questions regarding the EURAM 2008 conference, please contact: euram@iedc.si.

CEEMAN
IEDC-Bled School of Management
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4260 Bled, Slovenia
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