Personal Flourishing in Organizations

Rome, February 24-25, 2014

Call for Abstracts and Workshops

In addition to the classic formula for presentations (25 minutes each: about 15 minutes for the presentation itself and 10 minutes for discussion), workshops may also be proposed to groups, with brief talks and an immediate discussion of ideas. We will admit arguments that seek to find connections between the other participants and small groups already engaged in a specific topic. Presentations of professional activities and educational experiences are also welcome. Workshop proposals should be sent via e-mail by November 30, 2013.

Texts’ Submission

Authors are invited to submit an abstract (maximum of 1500 characters). Abstracts with 5 keywords must be uploaded to the Conference website by November 30, 2013. Papers must be submitted by March 14, 2014 and be no longer than 50,000 characters (notes and spaces included) to be evaluated for publication. Please follow the guidelines for submissions on the Conference website.

Additional Information

The submission must be made exclusively through the user account. Please do not e-mail your contributions to the organizers.

The Conference office will respond to the proposals on Dicember 10, 2013. Presentations may be delivered in Italian, English or Spanish.

The need of audio/visual support should be communicated to the secretariat. We suggest each communicator to come with his own device to connect to provided projector.

Topics

1. Meaning and scope of human flourishing.

2. Philosophy and psychology: mutual contributions and dialogue among the related disciplines.

3. Philosophical anthropology and psychology: complementarity and methodological differences.

4. Practical philosophy and philosophy for organizations: contributions and challenges of management.

5. Virtues in today’s teaching: academic perspective.

6. Virtues in today’s teaching: managerial perspective.

7. Institutional ethics in legality and collaboration.

8. Ethical culture of organizations (business culture and personal growth).

9. Coaching: methodology and importance.

10. Coaching: presuppositions and theoretical insights.

11. Medicine, psychology, and work systems; cultural and philosophical presuppositions of the principal models of work organizations; impact on social life, family, and health.

12. Work-family balance.

13. Flexibility in work organization.

14. Hints of classical virtue: self-control and abundance of information; temperance and selection of information sources.

15. Work, attention, and new technologies.

16. Quality of work; meaningful work.

17. Meaning and satisfaction of work; service and compensation.

18. Professionalism and transparency, even in the non-profit sector.

19. Human development in the mass media (informational, film, TV).

20. Human development in classical and contemporary literature.

21. Influence of religius values in organizations.