The overarching conference theme is "Organization Culture, Work Values & Organisational
Performance in Higher Educational Institutions."
This theme promotes and champions the need for conversations around organizational culture,
work values, performance, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage abstracts and
conversations around organizational culture, values, inclusion, and performance in higher
educational institutions in a multipolar world.
The conference organizers invite abstracts from multiple voices and the perspectives of
practitioners, academics, and researchers. Abstracts should raise critical issues about practices,
policies, and structures that address organizational culture, values, inclusion, diversity, and
equity in higher education institutions. The abstracts should also clearly identify strategies and
ways of improving curricula and teaching practices, as well as creating and evolving
organizational structures that will promote more inclusive learning environments in the context
of higher educational institutions.
We encourage submissions focused on the conference theme and request that you adhere to one
of the conference tracks/sub-themes. The conference scientific committee will utilize two main
strategies for assessing and finalizing the abstracts: peer-reviewed abstracts and invited
keynote/guest speakers.
Participants are invited to submit abstracts on the following and other topics related to higher
education institutions
Major tracks and sub-themes are as follows:
Day 1: Organizational Culture: Societal imperatives, institutional vision and organizational
mission
Subthemes include the Pursuit of Excellence in Higher Education Institutions, Relevance of
Organizational Culture, Synergy of and Intersection Between Culture, Values, and Performance;
Building Inclusive Cultures in Multicultural Academic Communities with a focus on Balancing
Tradition and Innovation in Organizational Culture; The Role of Governance and Policy in
Shaping Organizational Culture; and inclusive of the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Day 2: Work Values: Emerging theories, defining, living, and leading with work values
Subthemes include evolving Work Values in Academe, The Role of Academic Freedom in
Shaping Work Values; Motivating Students, Faculty, and Staff towards advancing humanity by
facilitating aligning personal values and goals with institutional goals; impact of artificial intelligence and machine
learning on work values; importance of ethics, integrity, work values in a digital academic world while pursuing institutional excellence; Contextualizing
success while attending to interdisciplinary collaboration in organizational performance;
Presenting of case studies of exemplar higher education institutions that facilitate or inhibit
transformational changes; Juxtaposing of institutional financial sustainability while Upholding
Institutional Values.
Day 3: Organisational Performance: Stakeholders' satisfaction, campus community success and
institutional excellence
Subthemes include a vision for excellence in higher education with a focus on global trends in
shaping higher Education that provides opportunities and challenges; the Role of higher echelon
leadership and organizational culture that guide institutional success with a focus on actualizing
goals in the strategic plan; Recruitment and Retention of Top Talents that is consistent with
institutional goals; the importance of consensus building and addressing diverging views;
mobilizing individual resilience towards the building of resilient academic Institutions while
attending to conflict resolution; role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in enhancing organisational performance; navigating Change in the context of the impact of globalized
higher education; Leadership and succession planning: while keeping Institutional Identity enter
of it all.
