Organizations and Social Change (OSC) Research Seminar Series Spring 2022
Wednesday April 13, 12:00 - 1:30 pm ET
Speaker: Professor Stella Nkomo, The Center for Global Inclusion & University of Pretoria.
Title: Creating A Racially Just Workplace: Moving Black and White women from allies to co-conspirators
Professor Stella M. Nkomo will be joining us via zoom from her home institution in Pretoria, South Africa. "She will be discussing the findings of the groundbreaking book, with Prof. Ella Bell Smith "Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity". She will provide candid insight into the ongoing barriers to equity in the workplace and beyond, and offer tools for both Black and white women to combat systemic racism and unfair biases."
Prof. Nkomo is a Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria. She holds an MBA and Ph.D. in Business Administration. Professor Nkomo is a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Bunting Institute of Harvard University and Visiting Scholar at the Tuck Business School of Dartmouth College (USA). Professor Nkomo is also the President of The Africa Academy of Management and was recently elected to the Academy of Science of South Africa. Her research appears on diversity, human resource management, and leadership and in organizations has been published in numerous journals and edited volumes. Her most recent research focuses on diversity practices in Africa and the relationship between diversity ideologies and practices. She is listed in the International Who’s Who in the Management Sciences and received the 2009 Sage Scholarly Contributions Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management.
Zoom link: https://umassboston.zoom.us/j/9312901200
Meeting ID: 931 290 1200 Passcode: OSC2022
For information contact: Silvia.Dorado@umb.edu