Announcements

Attention early-stage OB researchers outside North America! 

Join our OB Global Incubator to receive valuable feedback and enhance your paper or symposium for the AOM conference in Copenhagen in 2025. This supportive session, hosted by the Global Committee of the OB Division, is designed to help non-native English speakers navigate common writing challenges and build networks.

📅 Date: December 13, 09:00-11:00 CET (UTC +1) 📍 Location: Online

Submit your draft and specific feedback needs by Dec 1 (23:59 CET). 

For more details, refer to the Call for Papers: LINK.

#AOM2025 #OBIncubator

OB needs your input! We are conducting a member survey as part of the Academy of Management’s requisite DIG review process. This is an opportunity to reflect on your experiences and perceptions about the division, and to share your ideas for new and innovative member services.

The OB officers and volunteer leaders will use the results of this survey to help us understand how you see the division and to identify strategic goals and actions for our future. Survey analyses and respondent reflections will be included in a final report submitted to the AOM Board of Governors. The report and its results will be shared with all division members.  

Please do take this opportunity to share your thoughts with us. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. All responses will be confidential and only grouped data will be reported. The deadline for participating in the survey is 15 November 2024 at 11:59PM EST.

If you are a division member, you received an email on October 15 with an invitation to complete the survey. That invitation contains a link that is specific to you. Search your email for the subject line, "OB Division Member Survey" from the sender "ob@aom.org vis SurveyMonkey" to find your link. Be sure to check your junk folder as well!

This year we have two OB Division Lifetime Achievement Award recipients giving talks at AOM.

Jenny Chatman (2023 award winner) will give her talk on Sunday, August 11, 2024, 16:30 – 17:30 CT in Swissotel: Zurich D.

Jeff Pfeffer (2024 award winner) will give his talk on Monday, August 12, 2024, 16:30 – 17:30 CT in Swissotel: Lucerne III.

Don't miss these these talks by giants in our field!

Click here to see a full list of OB Sessions

The Making Connections Committee has curated a set of ready-to-go schedules for the 2024 Annual Meeting geared for different stages and interests. Click the link below that best matches where you are in your academic journey.

• New to OB?
• Halfway There PhD Student
• Dissertation Stage
• Full Professor
• Ready for a Change
• Let's Go Global!

#AOM2024

The “Welcome-a-Member” program is designed to extend a warm welcome to new members attending the meeting for the first time by pairing them with more experienced OB Division members.

If you are a first-time attendee, please consider signing up by completing a short survey here: https://tinyurl.com/OBnewmember2024

If you have been to the annual meeting at least once and are interested in supporting this program, please consider signing up as a mentor and completing a short survey here: https://tinyurl.com/OBvolunteer2024

The sign-up surveys will close Friday, July 12th, and detailed program descriptions can be found by clicking on your role as a first-time attendee or mentor.

Bailey Bigelow, Matt Deeg, and Tobias Dennerlein

On behalf of the OB Division Making Connections Committee

#AOM2024

Friday, June 14, 2024, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

See what time that is in your time zone here

This workshop aims to support the socialization of doctoral students and enhance their knowledge about the job market. The first half of the workshop provides tips and best practices from professors who have served on multiple hiring committees. The second half features reflections and advice from professors who have recently navigated the job market.

• Marjo-Riitta Diehl, Aalto University School of Business
• Andreas Richter, University of Cambridge
• Kira Schabram, University of Washington

We are seeking nominations for the 2024 AOM OB Doctoral Student Consortium. The consortium will take place in person at the Annual AOM conference. It is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, August 10, 2024, from 8:00 AM-5:00 PM local time. The Organizational Behavior Doctoral Consortium is designed for students who are in the final year of their doctoral program (i.e., students who will be on the job market in fall 2024 and who have made significant progress on their dissertation/thesis research). Therefore, priority will be given to students who have made the most progress toward completing their Ph.D. program (e.g., defended a dissertation proposal, completed data collection), but who have not yet defended their dissertation.  

The consortium includes a mix of presentations, panel discussions, and interactive sessions designed to launch doctoral students into their academic careers. Faculty presentations, interactive panels with journal editors, and roundtable sessions include topics such as crafting the right academic job, acing the job talk, succeeding in research and publishing from the perspective of a panel of editors, and starting or participating in effective and inclusive collaborations. More than 50 faculty members have volunteered to speak and/or host roundtable discussions.

Nomination Requirements: The completed nomination should be submitted by the nominating department/school/advisor, via the survey below.  Only nominations submitted via this survey will be considered. There is no formal restriction on the number of students a program may submit. However, we request that programs only nominate students who meet the selection criteria (e.g., only nominate students who are in the final year of their doctoral program, as opposed to early-stage students who would be better served in a future year).  In the case of space limitations, admission decisions will be made based on demonstrated progress toward the applicant's dissertation and broader research portfolio.

The following information must be provided:

• The nominee's one-page vita/bio in PDF format (longer documents may be rejected). Please name the file with the nominee's last name followed by ShortCV (e.g., SmithShortCV.pdf). 
• The nominee's one-page summary of dissertation/thesis research in PDF format (title and abstract is fine; longer summaries may be rejected). Please name the file with the nominee's last name followed by Research (e.g., SmithResearch.pdf). 
• Advisor/program chair endorsement. 

Nominations will only be accepted via the following Qualtrics survey:

https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42BFHoUhXlsBojQ

Nomination deadline: Friday, April 26, 2024 (11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time).

For questions, please contact Margaret Luciano at margaret.luciano@psu.edu or Shannon Taylor at sgtaylor@ucf.edu.

We look forward to welcoming you to the OB Doctoral Consortium at AOM!

Margaret Luciano and Shannon Taylor

OB Division Representatives-at-Large

Are you a mid-career faculty member who has achieved tenure? Congratulations! Now it's time to think about what comes next in your professional journey.

Join an interactive workshop led by Rena Seltzer from Leader Academic, along with Professors Cecily Cooper and Sreedhari Desai. Together, they will guide you through journaling exercises and small group discussions to help you clarify your academic identity, mission, and vision.

Here are some questions they'll explore:

🔹 How will you focus your research moving forward?
🔹 Are there new areas you want to explore now that you have increased freedom?
🔹 Do you aspire to leadership roles or want to remain a researcher primarily?
🔹 Are you satisfied with publishing in academic venues or do you want to reach a broader audience?
🔹 How will you focus your service work?

Don't miss this opportunity to reflect on your goals and find the support you need to achieve them. Space is limited, so sign up now!

Learning to establish effective and productive writing habits is a common struggle for many academics. In this series on tools for prolific writing, we invite you to hear from leading scholars on the methods they have used to become productive writers and scholars.

We invite you to join us Friday, January 26th at 12pm EST for this hour-long session. Scholars at all career points (PhD students, junior faculty, senior faculty, instructors) are encouraged to participate and see the benefits of establishing and participating in writing groups.

See what time that is in your time zone here

🌟 Dear OB Division Colleagues, 🌟

Reflecting on our AOM submission history, the OB Division has embraced a critical goal: to enlist 1,500 members as reviewers by January 15 for the upcoming Annual Academy of Management Conference. This goal is not only ambitious but also rooted in realism.

Currently, we stand at about a third of our goal. This is where we need your help!  By stepping up as an OB Reviewer, you join the ranks of those committed to elevating our division. Your contribution as a reviewer will be instrumental in achieving this critical objective, directly benefiting our OB Division.

🔗 To become a champion as an OB Division Program Reviewer, please visit: https://review.aom.org/2024/default.aspx

Thank you for your commitment and support of the OB Division, and 🎉 Happy New Year!

Gilad Chen, 2024 OB Division Program Chair

Keith Leavitt, 2024 OB Division Symposium Chair