Mission, values, and meeting charter
Documents our co-created CYGNA mission and values and our meeting charter
By joining our mailing list you commit to supporting our CYGNA mission, values and meeting charter.
CYGNA mission
CYGNA's mission is to provide an inclusive space where members support one another, share knowledge and wisdom to encourage: empowerment and career development; inspiration and curiosity; the exchange of ideas and collaboration; and friendship.
CYGNA's eight core values
- Community
- Generosity
- Kindness
- Trust
- Support
- Respect
- Safety
- Contagious enthusiasm
CYGNA charter
To maintain our ethos, our members are expected to follow the following principles:
- Respect and nurture CYGNA's ethos by modeling our values, both within and outside meetings.
- Ensure meeting invites and the membership spreadsheet stay within the network only.
- Keep discussions in CYGNA sessions and on the mailing list fully confidential.
Rules of engagement for online meetings
We want to ensure that our online meetings are a secure and safe place for everyone to share their views. Therefore, we would like to ask you to help us by adhering to the following additional principles:
- Try your best to join the meeting on time. Our meetings are not run in a webinar setting and speakers see the audience. So it is a bit disruptive if many members drop in late.
- Ensure your Zoom name includes your first and last name, that your Zoom profile includes a photo, and that you are muted when you are not speaking.
- Switch on your camera when joining a CYGNA meeting so we know who is joining us. We prefer you to keep your camera on during the entire meeting; it contributes to CYGNA being a "safe space". However, we understand that some of you have good reasons for switching if off.
- The content of our meetings is confidential. As such, we do not allow AI assisted note-taking or recording of any part of the session, unless all attendees have explicitly agreed to this.
What if I can't attend a meeting after all?
We are aware of and sensitive to the multiple demands on your time, and so we of course understand if you register but then cannot attend.
But please remember that event organisers are volunteers who put considerable time and commitment into preparing an engaging CYGNA event for participants and they often need to estimate attendance to plan activities.
So if you know it is unlikely you will attend, please register when you are more likely to attend than not; and if you are registered but cannot attend, please let organisers know in advance.
What does CYGNA mean to its members?
At our 50th meeting we also asked members to share a few words about what CYGNA meant to them on a Padlet. We think the result is pretty amazing :-).
Related pages
- About Cygna - Background on the CYGNA network
- Quick overview - Overview of presentations in our meetings with linked slidedecks
- Meetings - Information about forthcoming CYGNA meetings, and links to prior years
- Membership - Information for and about the Cygna network membership
- Readings and inspirations - Inspirational readings and resources for female academics
- The Cygna charter - Documents our CYGNA charter
- Cygna videos - Repository of introduction videos of our new CYGNA coordination team
- Cygna history - Tracing the history of our network since 2014, includes links to all of our meetings
- Frequently asked questions - Everything you may want to know about the CYGNA network and more
- The SWAN project - Initiated by Christa Sathish and Clarice Santos and implemented by Jacqueline Leon Ribas, this project created two swans reflecting CYGNA’s equal, inclusive, collective identity and the diversity of the network and its members
- Conference meet-ups - Provides brief write-ups of CYGNA conference meet-ups
- 10-year Anniversary event - Programme page for our 10-year anniversary event
- International Women's Day - Our collection of posts for international women's day
- CYG: Teaching & Scholarship Research - Our first CYG = SIG = Special Interest Group
- CYG: Career stage CYGs - Introductory page for our new career stage CYGs
- Cygna Writes - Introductory page for our new CYGNA Writes initiative - Writing in Community, Achieving in Silence
- Cygna Collaborations - Reports on some of the many collaborations our swans have engaged in across the CYGNA network
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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.
