Large CBS delegation attends Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
AOM is the leading international professional organisation dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organisations – subjects that are dear to the heart of CBS. AOM has over 25 interest groups and its members include the world’s best practitioners and researchers. The AOM annual meeting is the organisation’s most important recurrent event, with about 1,600 presentations.
CBS is among AOM’s approximately 19,000 active members. This year, CBS President Per Holten-Andersen, the CBS Senior Management and over 60 researchers and students at the MMD programme will attend the AOM’s annual meeting, being held at Orlando, Florida, in August. No less than 39 papers from CBS will be presented by an even larger number of researchers and CBS researchers will also be taking part in more than 30 workshops.
Wanted: Turning things upside down
In recent years, MMD students have attended the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management as part of their training, and some of them return again and again. MMD is a master’s degree course for managers, management advisers and organisation developers.
One of the CBS people at this year’s AOM meeting is a former MMD student and previous participant, Danielle Bjerre Lyndgaard, who now works with management and organisation development as a senior human resources development partner at BRFkredit, a Danish mortgage credit institution. The first time she attended was as a student. Now she is taking part as a practitioner.
“AOM is one of the best places for getting the inspiration I need in my daily work,” says Danielle Bjerre Lyndgaard. “I like to attend presentations that turn everything upside down or which support concrete projects that I am working on. You’re not given a finished concept at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. This isn’t plug-and-play – it’s knowledge that both can and must be translated into practice. I’ve been lucky enough to find input that has ‘disturbed’ me in an inspiring way – input that has forced me to think differently. And in my daily work, that’s precisely what I want managers at BRFkredit to do.”
Stop downloading ancient knowledge
This year, Danielle Bjerre Lyndgaard is attending with a colleague and her boss. When they return to BRFkredit they’ll make a presentation of their experiences to the rest of the HR team.
“Getting topical subjects turned upside down is healthy!” says Danielle Bjerre Lyndgaard. “Last year the general management focus around the world was on ‘mindfulness’. But at the AOM annual meeting one of the presenters talked instead about ‘mindlessness’ – about how you can use mindlessness constructively to ‘let go’ and ‘play’ your way to new results. The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management is interesting because some of the cleverest people in the world use their presentations to give you new ways to stop downloading ancient knowledge. Although not directly relevant for all my colleagues in the HR team, we do discuss our experiences when we get back because they bring about inspiration.”
Academy of Management and CBS’s role
- AOM works internationally to promote knowledge and education in management.
- AOM has existed since 1936.
- Today there are over 19,000 active members.
- AOM holds an annual meeting, where thousands of managers and people working with management development in practical terms, as well as researchers in the field, get together.
- CBS has taken part in the annual meetings over the past 27 years. Professor Flemming Poulfelt was the first person from CBS to accept an invitation to take part, and he has attended every year since. In 1992 he won a prize for the best paper.
- This year, CBS President Per Holten-Andersen, the Senior Management and over 60 CBS researchers and MMD students will take part.
- AOM is divided into 25 thematic divisions and interest groups.