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Call for Nominations: 2026 OB Division Career Awards

By: Harry Wang , 2 days ago

Call for Nominations

Please consider nominating a deserving member of our division for one of the following career awards!

Please find further information and deadlines below.

Please keep your nominations as succinct as possible and follow the submission instructions. Doing so helps ensure we do not place an unnecessary burden on the volunteers who serve on our awards committees. These volunteers are not members of the OB Executive Committee, and we are deeply grateful for the time and care they devote to this important work.

Call for the 2026 OB Division Lifetime Achievement Award

The OB Division Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 2005, recognizes senior scholars who have made exceptional contributions to our discipline throughout their careers. To be eligible for the award, an individual must have completed his or her PhD (or finished his or her training/education) at least twenty years ago. The individual must be a truly outstanding scholar. He or she will have published in the very best journals and conducted research that has had a significant impact on the field. Finally, recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award have contributed not only through their scholarship but through service to the field. For example, they may have served as editors of leading journals, held leadership positions with the Division or the Academy, and/or been exceptional teachers and mentors for doctoral students. The winner is required to attend the annual conference and give a presentation in the same year as receiving the award.

Please find the full criteria here, which are ordered by the OB Division’s principles of rigor, relevance, and relationships (noting the criteria are identical for Lifetime Achievement and Early to Mid-Career Awards, but the expected level of achievement differs).

For the Lifetime Achievement Award, the nominator must submit the following information as part of the nomination package:

A nomination letter by an OB Division member, noting that self-nominations are welcome.
A current Curriculum Vitae (CV).
A maximum of three letters of support (and no more than three).
Confirmation that the nominated individual is a member of the OB Division.
Confirmation from the nominated individual that, if they win, they will attend and present at the upcoming AOM Conference.

The deadline to submit for the 2026 OB Division Lifetime Achievement Award is February 9, 2026 using this link.

Past award winners:

Call for the 2026 OB Division Early- to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement Award (formerly the Cummings Award)

The Early to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement Award recognizes significant scholarly achievement during the early- to mid-career stage. The award winner will be announced at the Academy of Management conference. To be eligible for this award, an individual must be a member of the OB Division and must have received his or her PhD no more than 12 years ago.

Please find the full criteria here, which are ordered by the OB Division’s principles of rigor, relevance, and relationships (noting the criteria are identical for Lifetime Achievement and Cummings Awards, but the expected level of achievement differs). The nomination package should include the following materials:

A nomination letter by an OB Division member, noting that self-nominations are welcome.
A current Curriculum Vitae (CV).
A maximum of three letters of support (and no more than three).
Confirmation that the nominated individual is a member of the OB Division.

The deadline to submit for the 2026 OB Division Early to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement Award is February 9, 2026 using this link.

Past award winners:

2025 Jackson Lu (MIT)
2024 Anthony Klotz (University College London) and Klodiana Lanaj (University of Florida)
Not awarded
2022 Jessica Rodell (University of Arizona)
2021 Allison Gabriel (University of Arizona)
2020 Christopher Barnes (University of Washington)
2019 Scott DeRue (University of Michigan)
2018 Russell Johnson (Michigan State University)
2017 Mo Wang ( University of Florida)
2016 Dave Mayer (University of Michigan)
2015 Brent Scott (Michigan State University)
2014 Aparna Joshi (Pennsylvania State University)
2013 Francesca Gino (Harvard University)
2012 Hui Liao (University of Maryland)
2011 Adam M. Grant (University of Pennsylvania)
2010 Maria L Kraimer (University of Iowa)
2009 Remus Ilies (Michigan State University)
2008 Gilad Chen (University of Maryland)
2007 Don Moore (Carnegie Mellon University)
2006 Jason Colquitt (University of Florida)
2005 Jeffrey LePine (University of Florida)
2004 Jean Phillips (Rutgers University)
2003 Amy Edmondson (Harvard Business School)
2002 Michele Gelfand (University of Maryland)
2001 Timothy A. Judge (University of Florida)
2000 Sandra L. Robinson (University of British Columbia)
1999 Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison (New York University)
1998 Jennifer Chatman (University of California, Berkeley)

Call for the 2026 OB Division Award for Societal Impact

Scholarly work with societal impact is both scientifically credible and valuable to society; it produces societally beneficial knowledge that aims to make the world a better place. This work will often address, but is not limited to, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, for example: health and well-being, income and social inequality, and environmental preservation. To both recognize and incentivize such work in organizational behavior, the OB Division is inviting nominations for the OB Division Award for Societal Impact.

This award recognizes a body of work, rather than a single conference submission or published article, given that scholarship addressing grand societal problems is often incredibly challenging, unfolding over many years of persistence. The work may be published in traditional research outlets; however, it can also be evidenced in monographs, policy papers, books, curriculum, or interventions that may not receive recognition in other forums. Yet, through its application of organizational behavior scholarship, it has the potential to change the world. The award winner will be announced at the Academy of Management conference.

To be eligible for this award, the scholar’s work must:

Use organizational behavior knowledge to address problem(s) that relate to timely and critical societal challenges in the business, economic, societal or environmental spheres
Demonstrate strong credibility through rigorous methods, analysis, and/ or application
Inform and provide actionable insights for policies or practices to improve the wellbeing and performance of people (employees, managers, customers, suppliers), organizations, and/ or societies.

The deadline to submit for the 2026 OB Division Societal Impact Award is February 9, 2026 using thislink.

Past award winners:

Call for the 2026 OB Division Mentorship Award

The OB Division Mentorship Award recognizes a scholar who has excelled at mentoring others in achieving their career objectives through moral, social, and intellectual support. We define each of these criteria in more detail below:

Intellectual support: Helps the mentee develop ideas constructively (e.g., by brainstorming, offering a sounding board, suggesting a diverse perspective, providing written feedback) – investing one’s intellectual capital in the service of mentees.
Social support: Helps the mentee develop a professional network that will allow him/her to be successful (e.g., introducing them to others, writing reference letters, suggesting them as coauthors/reviewers/editors) – investing one’s social capital in the service of mentees.
Personal support: Genuinely cares about the wellbeing and development of the mentee (e.g., encouragement through difficult times, helps maintain self-efficacy, provides perspective or specific career/work strategies) – investing one’s personal energy in the service of mentees.

Any member of the OB Division is eligible for this award. This award is not meant to recognize research productivity, advocacy activities in the field, or personal longevity in the field but rather to recognize a scholar who has an impactful effect on other scholars through their outstanding mentorship. To be eligible, the person needs a minimum of three mentees who are willing to write a letter of nomination on behalf of their mentor. Based on the letters or recommendation received, a young and upcoming artist, being mentored by a more senior artist, will develop a personalized piece of art representing the award winner as a mentor. The award winner will be announced at the Academy of Management Conference. To nominate an individual for the Mentorship Award, a nomination packet must include:

A letter of nomination that identifies the candidate, the individual(s) making the nomination, and a short motivation about why this person is being nominated (one page, single spaced);
As supporting evidence, we ask the three nominators to each write a supporting letter (one page, single spaced) about how this person (mentor) has impacted their development, career and lives. These letters will be used as input for the artist crafting the award. We need a minimum of three, and a maximum of 10, letters per person. Nominations are accepted from all OB Division members.
If you nominated a candidate in a prior year/years who was not successful, you will need to resubmit the nomination materials this year.

The deadline to submit for the 2026 OB Division Mentorship Award is February 9, 2026 using this link.

Past award winners:

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