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The IRSPM conference will be held from March 30-April 1 at the University of Birmingham. At this conference, we will host a panel on leadership, entitled "Contemporary Leadership Issues: Managing people, change & innovation" (panel H2). Given your research interests, we cordially invite to submit an abstract of your work to this panel (see attachment for details). Topics may include (but are not limited to):

• The role of leadership in innovation processes
• Leadership and motivating employees
• Leadership during organizational change and public management reforms
• Horizontal and collaborative leadership in networks
• Managerial leadership models (transformational, transactional, LMX, etc.) applied to the public sector
• Leadership and publicness, such as linking to leadership to innovations focused on improving accountability and democracy
• Leading and managing people in different cultural contexts

Submit your abstract before October 15 via http://irspm2015.com/sppa/index.php/irspm/IRSPM2015/schedConf/cfp (panel track H2 - Contemporary Leadership). For the full call for papers, see: http://irspm2015.com/index.php/irspm/IRSPM2015/schedConf/trackPolicies (panel track H2 - Contemporary Leadership)

If possible, we would like to develop a symposium issue in an ISI peer-reviewed journal, based upon the presenters' contributions. 

Note 1 - We will hand out a 'best paper' award for the paper deemed most outstanding and co-authored by a young researcher. The only condiction is that at least one of the authors should be either a Ph.D.-student or younger than 30 years (or both, obviously). Please indicate in the abstract if you want to be included in this award-procedure.

Note 2 - There will be two tracks on this panel. One 'standard' paper track (for theoretical and empirical papers) and one novel track on methodology. The track on methodology will host papers regarding new methods. Here, experienced and junior researchers can discuss the state of the art of the methods on leadership studies, and possible ways forward. The LEAP project of Prof. Andersen (where a field experiment is used to study the impact of leadership on performance) will also be discussed. If you want to be included in the methodology track, please indicate this in your abstract.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts!

All the best,