How might we leverage the tools of advocacy, participatory management, environmental justice, and inclusive storytelling to build more equitable organizations?
Join us for this research roundtable featuring speakers Olivet Hinds Jordan, PhD (MS '12 in Organizational Change Management), Aleksandr Berezkin (MS '21 in Nonprofit Management), Shruti Dhaundiyal, and Dhriti Dhaundiyal present their papers.Â
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Moderated by Jill Mosebach (MS '20 in Organizational Change Management).
Additional details on the papers presented by the speakers:Â
Olivet Hinds Jordan, PhD
Value Systems/Ideologies, HR Management Practices, and Organizational Transformation: Implications for HR Practitioners
HRM Practices may become misaligned when an organization’s core values and culture are heavily underpinned by a dominant value system/ideology. Such misalignment can inadvertently lead to injustice, inequality, and conflict within an organization’s ecosystem. This paper highlights that perceptions of bias can be reduced when competing values are factored into HRM practices, and that attitudes of entitlement can be slow to change during organizational transformation. The author draws on HRM Practice in the Caribbean and analyzes her insights through the lens of the Competing Values Framework (Cameron & Quinn, 2011). Implications for HR Practitioners are presented.
Aleksandr Berezkin
The Fairy Tale Therapy Information Model for diagnosing the organizational development of nonprofit organizations is an innovative theoretical method of situational role-playing training for diagnosing the organizational development of nonprofit organizations. This method is based on a ;Slaying the Dragon: The Fairy Tale Model of Trauma Informed Treatment." This Fairy Tale Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment was made by Ricky Greenwald, Psy. D., an American psychologist, Executive Director of the Trauma Institute and Child Trauma Institute. Model is used as a diagnostic to assess the behavior of adolescents in a social environment (school, family, interaction with peers).
Shruti Dhaundiyal & Dhriti Dhaundiyal
The Indian Administrative Model and Green Growth: Redesigning the Apex Administrative Organizations for Equitable Citizen Participation
This paper uses a historical-institutional approach to illustrate the role of local grass-root organizations that have managed green resources in and around villages in India for centuries. Using stakeholder mapping, we highlight the historical contributions of the central and grass root organizations to local green administration. We then organically present the current collaboration, or the lack of it, between the two sets of organizations. Various studies have shown that the Indian Administrative System remains isolated from local governance. The central organization is a much smaller group with national level decision making powers concentrated in the hands of very few, who are unable to physically traverse across wide geographical regions to understand the local demands of a region. Therefore, a need-based re-conceptualization of the connections between local, social and environmental justice organizations and the Central Services in India is presented as a step forward in managing environmental resources and developing administrative techniques.
Introduction by Latha Poonamallee, Associate Professor of Management and Social Innovation & Chair of Management Programs.
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Presented by Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment at the Schools of Public Engagement.
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Olivet Hinds Jordan brings over twenty years human resource leadership and change management experience from private sector organizations in the US and the Caribbean. Her work involves shifting organizational cultures toward more equitable and inclusive employee relations, talent development, performance management, and compensation practices. At Rotherley Construction Inc., she championed the transition after unionization that ended work stoppages, resulted in improved working conditions, and increased client satisfaction.
Olivet has a PhD in Business Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, an MS in Organizational Change Management from The New School, and a BS in Management and Psychology from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She was born in Barbados where she served as an Army Sergeant. Olivet was a Board Member of the Human Resources Management Association of Barbados. She currently resides in Brooklyn and volunteers with the Taproot Foundation.
Shruti Dhaundiyal is a PhD researcher at the Department of Land Economy, Queen’s College. Her academic foundations lie in Political Science and Economics. She has worked with various national and international organizations for social change through policy interventions. Her current area of focus is the social impacts of renewable energy transition in India, with special focus on the Indian Himalayan Region. Shruti holds an MPhil from Queen’s College, Cambridge, an MA from JNU, New Delhi and a BA(Hons) in Political Science from Delhi University.
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Dhriti Dhaundiyal is a PhD researcher in IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. She is a transportation designer with an enduring interest in urban sustainability. She has worked with industry leaders in India and Japan for more than a decade in mobility and design. She has focused her work on equitable mobility solutions and gender parity in public spaces. Her current research is focused on participatory approaches to exploring design capabilities in public transport in India. Dhriti holds an MSc in Urban Sustainability from King’s College, London and a BDes from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
Aleksander Berezkin, intersex queer (pronoun he/his), has a professional background in Research, Advocacy, and Public Health. He got his BA in Sociology at Kemerovo State University. In 2014 he was forced to immigrate to the USA based on his LGBTQI activism and homophobic campaign organized against him in Russian local mass media. In New York, he continued his activism as a Founder and a Director of the Association of the Russian Speaking Intersex People till 2018. During 2015- 2018, Aleksander collaborating as a consultant with the UN program Free and Equal; Program of Public Health at the Open Society Foundation, IREX Europe. Currently, Aleksander is pursuing MS in Nonprofit Management at the New School.
His research interests include: Intersex studies, writing for healing and social changes, queer immigration, deep psychology, fairy tale therapy, mythology, community development.
Jill Mosebach is an ACMP-certified Change Management Practitioner specializing in leadership, culture, strategy, and partnerships. She has more than 12 years of experience helping social justice organizations navigate enterprise-wide and project-level change, including strategic planning, digital transformation, program design, revenue generation, and staff development. Most recently, she served as Senior Director of Partnerships and Change at Tribeca Film Institute, a renowned film organization that champions independent filmmakers and untold stories across the globe. A lifelong writer, Jill is drawn to the power of narrative as a tool for discovery, healing, and change—at the individual and organizational levels. She is a former New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow and Guest Lecturer at Baruch College’s Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. Jill holds an M.S. in Organizational Change Management from The New School and a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.