OB Junior Faculty Workshop
Academy of Management
August 4-5, 2017
The 2017 Organizational Behavior Junior Faculty Workshop will be held on August 4th (5:00pm – 9:00pm) and August 5th (8:00am – 12:00pm) as part of the pre-conference program at the AOM meeting in Atlanta, GA. This workshop offers junior faculty participants the unique opportunity to get to know and receive personalized research feedback from more senior OB scholars ("Faculty Fellows") in an intimate, collegial, cohort setting. Participants are expected to attend sessions on both days.
We are very pleased to have a group of Faculty Fellows who are not only prolific OB researchers, but also excellent faculty mentors and editors and/or editorial board members at leading OB journals. The 2017 Faculty Fellows are:
· Sue Ashford, University of Michigan
· Mark Bolino, University of Oklahoma
· Stuart Bunderson, Washington University at St. Louis
· Jennifer Chatman, University of California Berkeley
· Gilad Chen, University of Maryland
· Amir Erez, University of Florida
· Jack Goncalo, University of Illinois
· Ronit Kark, Bar-Ilan University
· Sally Maitlis, Oxford University
· Nancy Rothbard, University of Pennsylvania
· Ann Tenbrunsel, University of Notre Dame
· Batia Wiesenfeld, New York University
THE AGENDA
FRIDAY, 8/4, 5-9pm. The Friday portion of the workshop will consist of an off-site dinner and networking event. Through interactive exercises, participants will have an opportunity to get to know all of the Faculty Fellows and to obtain the coveted answer to the question: "What three pieces of advice do you wish you had known as a junior faculty member?" The site of this event – the Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta (https://www.civilandhumanrights.org/) – is very unique and reflective of the OB Division's 2017 "Spotlight on Inequality". Our time at this beautiful museum – whose mission to educate visitors on the link between the American Civil Rights Movement and the contemporary struggle for worldwide human rights – will be aimed at enhanced relationship building between junior faculty participants and senior Faculty Fellows. Workshop participants will be able to tour the museum exhibits after our dinner activities.
SATURDAY, 8/5, 8am-12pm. After a light continental breakfast, the Saturday portion of program will be dedicated to working on participants' research projects in small groups consisting of one Faculty Fellow and 3-4 workshop participants. Faculty Fellows and group participants will have read all group members' 2-3 page paper / project descriptions in advance to allow for a rich, detailed discussion (see below for details). The format will be informal, collegial, and developmental. It will be aimed at helping participants further develop their research for publication in top academic journals, in addition to sharing the implicit "tricks of the trade"/ tacit knowledge acquired from Faculty Fellow's experience publishing in the OB field.
THE PARTICIPANTS
To keep the faculty-participant ratio to an optimal size and allow for sufficient time to receive detailed research feedback, this workshop is limited to 40 participants and is targeted at junior faculty and post-docs at research-focused institutions. Preference will be given to tenure-track junior faculty in the early stages of their careers and to post-docs who will be starting tenure-track faculty positions in 2018. Participants will be selected based on their research fit with the Faculty Fellows and other workshop participants, their research pipeline, and the strength of their project summary submission.
Eligibility criteria for this workshop are:
1. Be a member of the Organizational Behavior Division as of March 2017
2. Have completed at least one (1) year in a post-doc or faculty position
3. Have completed a Ph.D. in the last six years (since 2011)
4. Registered for the AOM conference
APPLICATION DETAILS
Prior to entering the AOM system to register for this workshop, please email the following information to Olivia (Mandy) O'Neill, ooneill@gmu.edu, and cc: kylie.rochford@case.edu:
1. A current curriculum vitae, including complete contact information and information on working papers and works in progress
2. A 2-3 page (double-spaced) summary of an early-stage working paper or project in progress. Your submission should be an overview of your research paper / project, including the conceptual framework, research question, methods, key findings, contributions, and challenges you would like to discuss with your senior faculty fellow and small group participants.
3. Two OB topics/areas of interest. We will use these topic areas to match you with a Faculty Fellow. One of the topics should reflect your working paper or project in progress.
TIMELINE
The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION is Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 11:59pm. Acceptance notices will be sent by Monday, May 22, 2017.
Once selected, you will receive a unique code to register for the workshop on the AOM website. A registration fee of $150 USD will be charged to partially defray costs (including dinner on Friday night and breakfast on Saturday), payable by debit or credit card to the Academy of Management.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, please feel free to contact Mandy O'Neill (ooneill@gmu.edu)
We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!
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Olivia Amanda O'Neill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management, School of Business
Senior Scientist, Center for the Advancement of Well-Being
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 5F5
Fairfax, VA 22030
Tel: 703-993-4216
Email: ooneill@gmu.edu
Web: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ooneill/