The International
Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations
2008 Symposium
Motivation and Meaning at Work
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
June 16 -June 22, 2008
Program
Friday June 20, 2008
07.45-08.45 Social Dreaming
09.00-09.30 Welcome and Introduction
10.00 Plenary Presentation
Meaning Found and Meaning Lost: on the Boundaries of a Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations
David Armstrong (UK)
11.35-12.45 Parallel Sessions (1)
From Work as a Scene to Work as an Activity:
A Psychodynamic Perspective.
Giles Amado and Dominique Lhuilier(France)
Beyond Trauma: The Recovery of Motivation and Meaning in an Italian Jewelry Company.
Louisa Brunner (Italy)
Myth Busters: Who You Gonna Call? Consulting to Group Myths and the Tasks Associated.
Jinette de Gooijer and Brigid Nossal (Australia)
The Archetypal Meaning of Money in the Creation of Identity in Work Life.
Claudia Nagel (Germany)
Exploring Meaning in Coaching.
Halina Brunning (UK)
The Psychological Meaning of Work Insecurity Among Senior Executives:
Where Does Contentment Come From?
Jonathan Smilansky (UK)
14.00-14.45 Voices from the Outside: The Changing Nature of the Employment Relationship
Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor, Professor of Management and Director of the Wharton School's Center for Human Resources
14.55-15.40 Voices from the Outside: Conversation on Motivation, Risk and Leadership in the Hedgefund Business
Seth Klarman, President of the Baupost Group
16.15-17.30 Parallel Sessions (2)
What Makes Traders Trade - And How That is Changing in the Digital Age.
Ken Eisold (USA)
Motivation by Mobilization: Engaging the Work Force in the Postmodern Corporation.
Peter Boback (Germany)
The Double Challenge: Working Through the Tension between Meaning and Motivation in a Large System.
Phillip Boxer (USA)
The Marriage of Wealth to Virtue and Wealth to Product: Mission, Market and Management.
John Isaacson (USA)
From Organizational Meaning Through Splitting to Organizational Meaning Through Intergration: Healing the Great Divide.
Howard Stein (USA)
The Group at Play
David Levine (USA)
17.45-18.30 Learning from the Day
Saturday June 21, 2008
07.45-08.45 Social Dreaming
09.00-10.30 Plenary Presentation
Leadership and Meaning
John D. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University
11.05-12.15 Parallel Sessions (3)
Meaning and Nihilism: Psychodynamics of the Self-Destruction of Antioch College.
Howard Schwarz (USA)
Depersonalized Entitlement Among CEOs.
William Czander (USA)
Subjective Investment and Identity Dynamics: The Case of R&D Activities.
Cedric Dalmasso and Jean-Claude Sardas (France)
Figures of Professional Castration.
Gilles Arnaud and Roland Guinchard (France)
Motivation, Meaning and Resilience.
Marc Maltz (USA)
The Loss of Meaning and Motivation: "Burnout" as Interplay between Personality Style and Organizational Structure.
Mathias Lohmer (Germany)
13.30-14.45 Dialogue Sessions
16.20-16.30 Parallel Sessions (4)
The Principal Contradiction.
Chatham Sullivan and Lynn Langdon (USA)
Before the Surrogate of Motivation: Management and Work in Industrial Whaling at the Time of its Golden Age.
Burkard Sievers (Germany)
The Sterile Organization.
Stanley Gold (Australia)
Virtual Healthcare Settings: Construction Meaning Through Rumor and Electronic Communication.
Laima Serksnyte and Rodney Sappington (USA)
Making Meaning Through Narrative.
Terry Martin (UK)
Meaningful Work: Organizational Nexus.
Neill Carson (USA)
17.00-17.45 Learning from the Day
Sunday June 22, 2008
09.00-10.30 Plenary
Would You Die for Your Cause?
Elisabeth Henderson
11.00-12.15 Parallel Sessions (5)
Transformation of Meaning In Traumatized Systems: A Case Study.
William Kahn (USA)
The Creative Frame of Mind: New Ideas, New Meanings.
Gordon Lawrence and Susan Long (UK, Australia)
"Acheronta Movebo" Motivation and Meaning as Utopia and the Role of the Movie Industry: A Comparison of Rebel Without a Cause, Chapaev and The Matrix.
Elen Riot (France)
The Purpose of Meaning and the Meaning of Purpose: Energizing Organizational Transformation Through Engagement with Source.
Bruce Irvine (UK)
Exploring the Meaning of Work in the Context of Organizational Culture.
Lionel Stapley (UK)
12.30-13.00 Reflection on the Symposium