Blanche Ségrestin Bio (from MINES Paris)

Blanche Segrestin est enseignant-chercheur au sein du Centre de Gestion Scientifique (CGS) de MINES ParisTech.
Avec Kevin Levillain, elle coordonne les travaux de la Chaire Théorie de l’Entreprise – Modèles de gouvernance & création collective.

Blanche Segrestin s’est vue décerner fin 2019 le prix du livre RH 2019 pour son ouvrage co-écrit avec Kevin Levillain, « La mission de l’entreprise responsable – Principes et normes de gestion ».

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Despite substantial growth over the past three decades, coaching as a learning and developmental intervention remains marked by numerous inconsistencies, often leaving practitioners perplexed. This ambiguity is particularly pronounced in the realm of care within coaching, a pivotal yet often overlooked aspect. While care initially appears central in this value-laden profession, it remains a nebulous and unsubstantiated concept. In response, our qualitative study investigates coaches’ representations of care. Through the analysis of 30 interviews, we reveal that care is nuanced and fraught with complexity for practitioners, identifying four primary challenges with care. Care appears amorphous; multifaceted; incongruent and harmful. We therefore argue that coaches’ limited awareness of care not only results in confusion but, in some cases, creates potential harm, underscoring the need for heightened epistemic clarity regarding care in coaching. Our study makes two contributions: firstly, it enriches the under-developed concept of care within the coaching discipline and delineates conditions to position coaching as a caring profession through enhanced epistemic reflexivity; secondly, it provides educational and practical recommendations aimed at improving professional practice among coaches. 

Pauline Fatien Bio (from Grenoble EM)

Pauline Fatien Diochon is Associate Professor at People, Organizations and Society Department, Grenoble Ecole de Management (France). Her research explores the ethical, spatial and political dimensions of organizational phenomena, such as leadership development (especially coaching) and collaborative spaces. She holds a PhD in Management from HEC School of Management (Paris, France) and has an international academic career in the USA and Colombia.

This seminar will be held in French 

Caroline Ruiller Bio (from IGR-IAE Rennes)

"Mes recherches portent sur les comportements en organisation et la qualité de vie au travail : télé-management, télétravail et conciliation vie professionnelle / vie familiale, engagement, rôles professionnels. Mes terrains de recherches sont les institutions du champ sanitaire et social ainsi les TPE/PME/GE. Les méthodes que je mobilise sont qualitatives et quantitatives."

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This course should allow the students to access to a critical theory of knowledge applied to management and, in a wider sense, to all disciplines that belong to management studies. Such a goal is at the same time theoretical and practical: firstly, it should help students understand how a "management science" has been progressively invented, what are the challenges and limitations of such a project; secondly, it will introduce the participants to the main debates in the epistemological field, mixing fundamental and applied epistemologies; thirdly, it will give them reflexive roots to fulfill their research in management studies.

Schedule 

Exact schedule will be added soon

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COURSE OBJECTIVES 

The objective of the course is to help young researchers in management get a better understanding of the peer reviewed publication process and develop their academic writing skills. This course provides transversal competences to doctoral students and future researchers – i.e. competences that are useful regardless of their specific topic and discipline. During this seminar, students will learn how to write a literature review, an academic paper; how to get published and how to present a research paper. 

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 

• prepare a research plan and an academic paper; 
• write a paper following the academic standards; 
• review an academic paper; 
• pitch his/her research; 
• present a research seminar ; 
• build online profiles and web presence 

COURSE CONTENT 

The different topics that will be covered in this course are the following ones: 

• Defining what makes a good research idea? 
• Designing your literature review (Searching for literature; Quality of journals; Writing the literature review…) 
• Developing your research design (Conceptual model, hypotheses, methodology…) 
• Writing your paper: what and how? (Structure of an academic paper; Writing an abstract; Writing the basic sections: data collection, findings, discussion, conclusion, limitations and future research; Positioning a research and defining contributions; Common mistakes of novice writers…) 
• Publishing process (Soliciting for feedback; Developing research papers; Selecting an appropriate journal; Order of authors; Making the paper ready for submission; …) 
• Reviewing your paper 
• Presenting your research in a research seminar 
• Pitching your research to a non-expert audience 
• Becoming an impactful academic 
• Using Web Tools and establishing web presence and visibility 

COURSE ORGANIZATION 

Students are expected to prepare the writing/reading assignment and think about the topics before each session. They are also expected to contribute in an informed, critical and innovative manner during the sessions. 

EVALUATION METHODS 

Different assignments will be asked from students: 

• writing a working paper following the academic standards (see specific guidelines posted on Moodle); 
• presenting this working paper (see specific guidelines given in class); 
• reviewing a paper written by another student and discussing it after the oral presentation/poster. 

The assessment of your performance will be composed of the following elements: 

• Quality of the written working paper (65%) 
• Quality of the oral presentation of your working paper (20%) 
• Quality of your review and discussion of a classmate paper (15%) 

Schedule 

A presentation day is organized in June 

Schedule to be confirmed. 

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Part 1 : Advanced Discrete Optimization (Daniele Catanzaro) 

Part 2: Qualitative Research Methods (Laurent Taskin)

Part 3: Quantitative Research Methods (Vincenzo Verardi)

Description

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Qualitative Research Methods

• General characteristics of qualitative approaches
• Research design and data collection
• Interview Guide and questioning
• Analyzing and making sense of data
• Data Quality Control
• Reflexivity and heterodox approaches
• Ethnographic and Visual Approaches

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Arno Kourula Bio (from University of Amsterdam Business School)

Kourula obtained his PhD from the Aalto University School of Business in Finland in 2009. The title of his dissertation was Company Engagement with Nongovernmental Organizations from a Corporate Responsibility Perspective. Between 2010 and 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University and Fellow at the Copenhagen Business School. He joined the Amsterdam Business School in 2012. As a lecturer, he has been active in the development of new courses and programmes. In 2020 he co-founded the Sustainability Honours Programme for students enrolled in the MSc Business Administration. Since 2017 he has been the director and later co-director of the ABS Sustainability Initiative.