We are excited to introduce our PDW on Navigating Grief in Organizations, where we bring together an expert panel of grief scholars and practitioners to kickstart an important and timely conversation on grief in organizations. Grief is a common human experience resulting from suffering a profound loss, such as the death of a loved one, divorce, and job loss. 2020 was a year of much suffering and grief, and the losses will continue to be felt long after. In this PDW, our panelists will address some important questions, such as:
How should researchers go about building a research agenda on grief at work?
How can organizations and managers support grieving employees?
How can we reduce the scholar-practitioner gap?
We welcome you to engage with our panelists, their work, and to pose questions ahead of our asynchronous panel discussion, which will later be uploaded on the AOM 2021 Meeting website. In the first PDW segment, academic panelists will weigh in on the state of grief research and identify key directions for future work. In the second PDW segment, practitioner panelists involved in workplace grief training will share insights on their experiences on-the-ground, best practices, and areas for improvement. Thereafter, the full panel will discuss a crowdsourced list of frequently asked questions posed by Academy members pertaining to dealing with grief in academia.
With the goal of creating a grief resource toolkit for Academy members in mind, the organizers will collate valuable insights from the panel discussions and share this PDW website and with all interested members of the Academy. So please browse around, pose a question (either in the Padlet below or email any of the organizers), and stay tuned for our panel discussion! We'll be recording on July 2nd, so please submit your questions and comments soon!
Finally, we've also put together a paper symposium, titled Emerging Research Directions Exploring Grief in Organizations, at the upcoming AOM. This symposium will feature four projects focusing on grief in organizations. At the end, our symposium discussant, Dr. Gianpiero Petriglieri, will share his insights on this exciting set of papers.
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