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ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
Teaching and
Learning
9 Fostering the Passion for Teaching
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10 Preparing Students to Use LinkedIn
to Connect to Experts
March 2015
Election 2015
4 Board of Governors Election
4-7 Meet the Candidates: 2015 Board of Governors Election
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Election 2015
2015 Board of Governors Election
Dear Academy of Management Friends:
The Academy’s election website is now open for the purpose of
accepting your votes. This website will be open from February 16 –
March 31, 2015. Please allow me to strongly encourage you to vote
in this election for the purpose of selecting three Representativesat-Large and a new Vice President Elect and Program Chair Elect to
the Board of Governors.
Each ballot being presented to you features an impressive group of
proven leaders who have demonstrated their strong commitment
to our association’s vision and mission. We are indeed fortunate that
each of them is willing to continue their service in these important
Academy roles.
As we begin the election, please be respectful of AOM’s campaigning
philosophy, which values elections that are free of active
“politicking” by voting members and nominees. It is
certainly appropriate to ask fellow members of the
Academy for further information about a candidate
whom you do not know; but, active campaigning is
inconsistent with our professional norms.
Thank you for deciding to vote in this election.
By voting, you are participating in the shaping
of our Academy’s future. For more information
about the elections process, please visit the
nominations and elections page of the AOM
website.
R. Duane Ireland
Past President & Chair, Nominating Committee
Academy of Managment
2015 Board of Governors Election
Meet the Candidates: Vice President-Elect
Herman Aguinis is
the John F. Mee Chair
of Management and
Founding Director
of the Institute for
Global Organizational
Effectiveness in the
Kelley School of
Business, Indiana University. He has held
visiting scholar positions at universities in
Australia, China, France, Spain, Singapore,
South Africa, Malaysia, Puerto Rico,
and Argentina. His multidisciplinary,
Carol T. Kulik (PhD
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) is
a Research Professor
of Human Resource
Management at the
University of South
Australia. Her research
focuses on understanding how management
practices influence the fair treatment of
people in organizations. Current projects
include investigating strategies for closing
the gender gap in salary negotiations,
Eero Vaara (Ph.D.
Econ) is a Professor
of Organization and
Management at Aalto
University School of
Business in Helsinki,
Finland. He is a permanent Visiting Professor
at EMLYON Business School in France,
and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at
Lancaster University in the UK. He has
also held long-term visiting positions at
Stanford University, Copenhagen Busi-
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multimethod, and multilevel research
addresses human capital acquisition,
development and deployment, and research
methods and analysis. He has published
more than 120 journal articles (e.g., AMJ,
AMR, AMP, AMLE, AOM Annals, SMJ, JAP)
and five books including, Performance
Management and Regression Analysis for
Categorical Moderators, delivered more
than 110 presentations at universities in
nearly 20 countries, and secured $5 million
in extramural funds. His research has been
featured in Forbes, the Economist, Bloomberg
Businessweek, USA Today, and many more
publications. A Fellow of the Academy of
Management, he received the Research
Methods Division Distinguished Career
Award for lifetime contributions and the
Entrepreneurship Division IDEA Thought
Leader Award. In addition, he received bestarticle-of-the-year awards from Academy of
Management Perspectives, Organizational
Research Methods, Journal of Organizational
Behavior, and Personnel Psychology. He is
also the recipient of Indiana University’s
2014 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Building
Bridges Award for promoting equality,
equity, diversity, and justice. He served as
Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research
Methods, and Guest Editor for Journal of
Management special issues on bridging
micro and macro research domains and
Personnel Psychology on corporate social
responsibility. Selective examples of service
to the Academy of Management include
President of the Iberoamerican Academy
of Management, Task Force Member for
redesigning the Academy meetings, Chair
of the Research Methods Division, and
representative-at-large for the HR Division.
For more information, please visit mypage.
Carol T. Kulik continued
Eero Vaara continued
reducing stereotype threat among matureage workers, and increasing access to
employment for people with disabilities.
Carol’s research on gender and diversity
has been recognized by the Academy
of Management’s Gender & Diversity in
Organizations Division and the Society for
Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
ness School, and HEC Paris. He has previously served as the Chair of European Group
of Organizational Studies and as representative-at-large of the Board of Governors of
the Academy of Management. He is now a
board member of the European Institute for
Advanced Studies of Management and of the
Scandinavian Consortium of Organizational
Research at Stanford University. His research
interests focus on organizational, strategic
and institutional change, strategic practices
and processes, multinational corporations
and globalization, management history,
management education, and methodological and philosophical issues. He has worked
especially on discursive and narrative
approaches. This work has been published
in leading journals (Academy of Management
Annals; Academy of Management Journal;
Academy of Management Learning and
Education; Academy of Management Review;
British Journal of Management; Gender,
Work and Organization; Human Relations;
Journal of Business Venturing; Journal of
International Business Studies; Journal of
Management Inquiry; Journal of Management
Studies; Organization; Organization Science;
Organization Studies; Scandinavian Journal of
Management; Strategic Management Journal
and Strategic Organization). He has also authored books and edited volumes (e.g., the
Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
2010/2015 and Language and Communication
@ Work 2014). He has received several awards
for his contributions. He has served on
editorial boards and as a guest editor (e.g.,
SI on strategy and discourse in JMS 2014
and STF on communication, cognition and
institutions in AMR 2015). His hobbies include
serving two teenagers,running and skiing,
playing the keyboard, and detective stories.
https://people.aalto.fi/en/eero_vaara
Carol is particularly interested in bridging
the academic-practice divide and ensuring
that academic research addresses problems
of interest to the business community.
Her book Human Resources for the non-HR
Manager makes cutting-edge research on
human resource issues accessible to both
HR and non-HR managers alike. In addition,
Carol also enthusiastically collaborates
with research partners in the business
community, including the Australian Senior
Human Resources Roundtable and The 100%
Project.
Carol has served two terms on the
Organizational Behavior Division’s Executive
Committee, as Representative-at-Large,
and later as Division Chair. She has been
an Associate Editor at the Journal of
Management and is currently an Associate
Editor at the Academy of Management
Journal. She served on the Australian
Research Council’s College of Experts.
2015 Board of Governors Election
Meet the Candidates: Representatives-At-Large
David G. Allen is Distinguished
Professor of Management at
the University of Memphis
and Distinguished Research
Environment Professor at
Warwick Business School.
His research and teaching
focuses on the flow of human capital into and
out of organizations, and has been published in
numerous academic journals, including Academy
of Management Journal, Academy of Management
Perspectives (2010 Outstanding Article Award),
Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel
Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal
of Organizational Behavior, and Organizational
Research Methods. He currently serves as Senior
Associate Editor at Journal of Management, and
has served on the Editorial Boards for Academy
of Management Journal (2010 Best Reviewer
Award), Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel
Psychology (2014 Best Reviewer Award), and
Journal of International Business Studies,
among others. He is a Fellow of the Southern
Management Association and the Society for
Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
David has been a member of the Academy for
over 20 years, and has been heavily involved
in a number of service, scholarship, and
leadership programs. He is the 2014–2015 HR
Past Division Chair, finishing a 5-year cycle that
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included roles as PDW Chair, Program Chair,
Division Chair-Elect, and Division Chair. During
his term as Chair, David oversaw the launch of
an International Conference in Beijing, raised
sponsorship participation by 35%, created
a social media task force, increased division
membership, selected student representatives
of the division, and revamped the website.
David has also participated in symposia,
workshops, paper sessions, award committees,
and numerous consortia, including the SHRM
Foundation Dissertation Awards and doctoral
student and junior faculty consortia for the OB
and HR Divisions.
Stacy Blake-Beard is a
Professor of Management
at the Simmons College
School of Management and
a Senior Faculty Affiliate
at the Center for Gender in
Organizations at Simmons.
Dr. Blake-Beard’s research centers on the
challenges and opportunities offered by
mentoring relationships, with a focus on how
these relationships may be changing as a
result of increasing workforce diversity. She is
particularly interested in the issues women face
as they develop mentoring relationships. Dr.
Blake-Beard has been the recipient of numerous
grants and fellowships, including awards from
the National Science Foundation, the National
Institutes of Health, and the Ford Foundation.
She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Award,
which was awarded to support her project
entitled “Systems of Sustenance and Support:
Exploring the Impact of Mentoring on the Career
Experiences of Indian Women,” in partnership
with the Center for Leadership, Innovation
and Change at the Indian School of Business in
Hyderabad, India. Dr. Blake-Beard has been an
active member of the Academy of Management
since 1990, and has held a number of positions
during her time with AOM, including GDO
Division Chair, Mentoring Committee Co-Chair
and Careers Division Executive Board Member.
Dr. Blake-Beard holds a BS in Psychology from
the University of Maryland at College Park, and
an MA and a PhD in Organizational Psychology
from the University of Michigan.
Lynn Bowes-Sperry is a
Professor of Management
at Western New England
University in Springfield, MA,
where she’s worked since 2000.
Before joining Western New
England, she was a faculty member at James
Madison University. She received her PhD in
Organizational Behavior from the University of
Connecticut in 1996. Her research focuses on
employee responses to unethical behavior they
witness (e.g., sexual harassment, workplace
bullying, or racial discrimination). Her work
has appeared in, among others, Academy of
Management Review, Academy of Management
Learning & Education, Journal of Management,
Organization Science, and Group & Organization
Management.
Lynn has held several leadership roles in the
Academy of Management’s GDO Division,
including Division Chair, Program Chair, PDW
Chair, Executive Committee Member, and
Newsletter Editor. She was also a member of
several GDO committees, including Nominating
Committee, Best Paper Award Committee,
Service Award Committee, and Technology
Committee. She also served the SIM Division as
a former Chair for the Best Paper Committee,
received a Challenge Award from GDO, and was
designated an outstanding reviewer for multiple
years.
Lynn enjoys teaching courses in Business &
Society, Ethical Leadership, Organizational
Behavior, and Human Resources Management at
the undergraduate and graduate level. She is a
learning partner for her university’s Alternative
Spring Break program. Lynn did stand-up
comedy for a few months, but decided she could
have more of an impact as a funny professor
than as an intelligent comic. She does, however,
still go by the name “Dr. BS.”
Laura B. Cardinal is Professor
of Strategic Management
at the C. T. Bauer College
of Business, University of
Houston. She earned her
PhD from the University of
Texas at Austin, where she
received a National Science Foundation grant.
Previously, Laura was a faculty member at
Tulane University, where she served as Director
of the Burkenroad Institute for the Study of
Ethics and Leadership. Laura’s expertise is
mostly in the implementation of innovation
goals and strategies, and includes the effects
of organizational control and coordination on
innovation, R&D, and new product development
teams.
Dr. Cardinal joined the Academy in 1985, and
has attended every Annual Meeting since. She
has served as chair of the Technology and
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Innovation Management Division, and has
acted as a faculty facilitator for numerous junior
faculty and doctoral student consortia. Laura is
an Associate Editor of Academy of Management
Annals, and serves on the editorial boards of
Academy of Management Journal, Academy of
Management Discoveries, Organization Science,
Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of
Organization Design.
Laura’s work has been published in Academy
of Management Journal, Organization Science,
Strategic Management Journal, Journal
of Accounting and Economics, Journal of
Organizational Behavior, and other outlets. Her
co-authored research (with Michael Fern and
Hugh O’Neill) won a best paper award from the
Academy’s Entrepreneurship Division, and her
co-edited book (with Sim Sitkin and Katinka
Bijlsma-Frankema), Organizational Control, was
published by Cambridge University Press.
John E. Delery is currently
Professor and Raymond F. Orr
Chair in Management in the
Walton College of Business
of the University of Arkansas.
He received his PhD in
Management from Texas A&M
University, MS in Psychology from Memphis
State University, and BA in Psychology from
Tulane University. He has been a member of the
Academy for over 20 years, as well as an active
member in the HR Division for nearly as long.
He was elected to the Executive Committee and
served on a number of division committees,
including coordinating the HR doctoral student
consortium for a number of years. He most
recently served in the leadership track, as
PDW Chair, Program Chair, Chair-elect, Chair,
and Past-Chair. John has served or is serving
on a number of editorial boards, including
Academy of Management Journal, Academy of
Management Review, Journal of Management,
Human Resource Management, Human
Resource Management Journal, International
Journal of Human Resource Management, and
Organizational Psychology Review. His research
interests include the strategic management
of human capital, and the link between HR
practices and firm outcomes. His research has
been funded by a number of agencies, including
the National Science Foundation, and has
been published in such outlets as Academy of
Management Journal, Strategic Management
Journal, Personnel Psychology, and Human
Resource Management Review. He was awarded
the HR Division’s Scholarly Achievement Award
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for his 1996 publication co-authored with
Harold Doty. He is also a two-time winner of
the HR Division Best Paper award at the Annual
Meeting.
Carrie Leana is the
George H. Love Professor
of Organizations and
Management at the University
of Pittsburgh, where she
holds appointments in the
Katz Graduate School of Business, the School
of Medicine, and the Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs. She is also Director
of the Center for Healthcare Work and on the
board of directors of the Aging Institute. Carrie
has published two books and more than 100
articles on such topics as authority structures,
employment relations, and human and social
capital. In the Academy of Management, Carrie
has served as Chair of the Organizational
Behavior Division (2011), in the leadership
track of the OB Division (2007-2012), on the
OB Division Executive Committee (1997-2000),
and on the All-Academy Program Theme
Committee (2013). She also served two terms
on the editorial board of the Academy of
Management Review. Her book, Coping with
Job Loss (with D. Feldman), was a finalist for the
Academy of Management’s Terry Book Award.
Carrie is a former senior Fulbright scholar,
and has received numerous honors, including
the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Pioneer Award
recognizing her integration of social impact
topics into research and teaching. She has
held visiting international appointments in
Asia, Australia, Europe and South America. Her
research has been supported by the National
Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation,
and the Russell Sage Foundation, among
others. Carrie’s current research is focused on
low-wage workers. She is also writing a book
on human and social capital in public schools.
Christopher Marquis is
Professor of Management and
Organizations at the Cornell
University Johnson School
of Business as of July 1, 2015.
He received his PhD in from
the University of Michigan, and for the last
ten years has been on the faculty of Harvard
Business School. His current research focus
is the sustainability and corporate social
responsibility strategies of global corporations,
with a particular emphasis on firms in China.
Theoretically, this research builds on his
prior research on the mechanisms of how
and why firm behavior varies over time and
across geographic contexts. He has published
this research in leading journals including,
Academy of Management Journal, Academy of
Management Review, Administrative Science
Quarterly, American Sociological Review,
Harvard Business Review, Organization Science,
and Strategic Management Journal.
Chris has been an active contributor to the
Academy. He is currently a Representative at
Large for the Organization and Management
Theory (OMT) Division, has served on the
Practice and Teaching Committees of the
OMT Division, and was on the Academy of
Management Career Awards committee in
2014. Other recent service work includes
chairing the Award Committee for the
Administrative Science Quarterly Award
for Scholarly Contribution in 2012. Chris is
currently an Associate Editor at Administrative
Science Quarterly and has served as a Senior
Editor at Organization Science and on the
editorial boards of Academy of Management
Review and Organization Science.
John M. Jermier is Professor
of Organizational Behavior
in the Muma College of
Business and Professor
of Sustainable Enterprise
Research in the Patel College
of Global Sustainability at the University
of South Florida. He teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses in organizational
behavior, corporate environmentalism and
environmental policy, and the measurement
of organizational effectiveness.
John’s current research is focused
on sustainability, the “greening” of
organizations, and trends in green energy/
technology, including a large study of waste
reduction and culture change in the U.S. Air
Force funded by the federal government. His
most recent publication is a six volume book
project that defines the field of corporate
environmentalism and organizational
greening, identifies key readings in the field,
and provides a critical appraisal of the state
of the art and a roadmap for future research.
John has authored or co-authored numerous
articles, book chapters, books, research
monographs and other scholarly works.
He is founding co-editor and past-co-editor
of the journal, Organization & Environment and
either is currently serving on or has served on
the editorial review boards of Administrative
Science Quarterly, Human Relations,
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Organization, Organization Science, Leadership
Quarterly, Leadership, Journal of Management,
Journal of Management and Sustainability,
Journal of Workplace Rights, and Tamara:
Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry.
John has been chair, chair-elect, program
chair, and chair of professional development
workshops of the Organizations and the
Natural Environment Division of the Academy
of Management.
He earned a PhD, MBA, and MA from The Ohio
State University and a BS from the University
of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.
Dr. Yan “Anthea” Zhang is a
Professor of Strategic
Management and the Area
Coordinator of the Strategy
and Environment Group at the
Jones Graduate School of
Business, Rice University. She was a Professor
of Management at China Europe International
Business School in 2012–2013 (on leave from
Rice University). Her areas of specialization
include CEO succession and corporate
governance, as well as foreign direct
investment and technology entrepreneurship
in emerging markets. Her research has been
published in top-tier management journals,
including Academy of Management Journal and
Strategic Management Journal, among others.
She was the recipient of the 2010 Strategic
Management Society Emerging Scholar Award.
She was an Associate Editor of Academy of
Management Journal (2010-2013), and is on the
editorial review boards of Academy of
Management Journal and Strategic
Management Journal. She currently serves on
the board of directors of Strategic Management
Society. A testament to the significance of her
work in the management field, her research
has been featured in numerous business
publications, including Financial Times, Wall
Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week,
the Economist, Washington Post, Investor’s
Business Daily, CNBC, CNN Money, USA Today,
and was profiled in Financial Times’ “Women at
Business School” in 2012. She received a BA
and an MA in Economics from Nanjing
University, China, a Master of Philosophy
degree in International Business from City
University of Hong Kong, and a PhD in Business
Policy and Strategy from the Marshall School of
Business, University of Southern California.
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Cover Story
March 2015
Teaching and Learning
Fostering the Passion for Teaching to Inspire Lifelong Learning
Claudia Ferrante, U.S. Air Force Academy and Chair, Teaching Theme Committee
As scholars in
the Academy of
Management (AOM), we
are often asked what
drives our enthusiasm
for and dedication to
our careers. Is it our
ability to discover new
connections among
constructs through
our research? Is it being able to share our
knowledge derived from research and
experience with our students through
teaching? For many of us, it is both. We love
our careers and view them as opportunities
to engage in scholarship while fostering our
passion for teaching.
Being able to engage students through
leading-edge critical thinking and practical
application of content theory is paramount
to both enjoying our students and our
time in the classroom. We work to create
interactive learning environments in which
students are active participants. We give
students an understanding of the relevance
and practicality of textbook concepts
and how they apply to their careers and
personal lives. Watching our students’ spark
for learning ignite and their intellectual
curiosity expand is truly rewarding as we
set them on their path to lifelong learning
and development. Fortunately for AOM
members, there are many resources
available to assist our work in the
classroom, and many other colleagues who
share our enthusiasm for teaching.
The Academy of Management’s Teaching
Theme Committee (TTC) comprises
individuals who are truly passionate about
teaching and enthusiastic about sharing
successful classroom techniques, exercises,
case studies, approaches for student
engagement, curriculum development and
many other teaching-oriented resources.
Our members take on our “charge” to “raise
the visibility of teaching as an important
professional activity within the Academy”
with zeal and enthusiasm. Each year, the
TTC sponsors and co-sponsors Professional
Development Workshops (PDWs) at the
Annual Meeting, and our members welcome
new members to the Academy via New
Member Orientation sessions; share their
excitement for teaching with individuals
new to doctoral studies through the New
Doctoral Student Consortium; and serving
as Meeting Mentors to those attending our
Annual Meeting for the first time.
In Vancouver, the TTC will sponsor
seven PDWs, including discussions on
experiential learning; teaching with
interactive assignments; creating dynamic
and effective learning environments
through syllabus and course design;
using technology to create more open
classroom governance; incorporating
virtual experiences into the classroom;
exploring online global education for MBA’s
and executives; and reflecting on changes
and advances in teaching and learning
environments since our last meeting in
Vancouver 20 years ago. Our Business
Meeting provides an opportunity to reflect
on the past year’s accomplishments and
plan for the future. We welcome you to join
our conversations.
The Teaching and Learning Conference
at the Academy of Management (TLC@
AOM) provides an opportunity to attend
a “conference within a conference” to
support members’ teaching-related needs
and the practice of teaching. This year’s
conference promises to provide highly
dynamic and interactive sessions that
explore teaching techniques, classroom and
student management methods, and other
practices relevant to multiple Academy
divisions and interest groups. Held on
Sunday during the Annual Meeting, it
offers a block of time to connect with each
other while engaging in thought-provoking
discussions on how to enhance teaching
and learning for our students, colleagues,
and ourselves.
Whether you’ve been a member of the
Academy for years or are new to this
phenomenal organization of scholars,
we hope you’ll join us in Vancouver and
become caught up in the excitement of
teaching and learning.
TEACHING THEME COMMITTEE:
Ines Alegre
Universitat Internacional Catalunya
Minavia Guadeloupe
University of Florida
Thomas J. Mierzwa
University of Maryland University College
Lisa T. Stickney
University of Baltimore
Anke Arnaud
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Christina A. Hannah
University of Maryland University College
Emmanuel Monod
Shanghai Jiaotong University
Caterina Tantalo
San Francisco State University
Luc K. Audebrand
Laval University
Ada Hurst
University of Waterloo
Paula O’Callaghan
University of Maryland University College
Toni Ungaretti
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas P. Bradley
Tarleton State University
Nicole C. Jones Young
University of Connecticut
Rajnandini Pillai
California State University-San Marcos
Rhode Island College
Beverly J. Demarr
Ferris State University
Mina Lee
Xavier University
Paul Prosper
United States Air Force Academy
Joan Weiner
Drexel University
C. Melissa Fender
Holy Family University
G. James Lemoine, Jr.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Susan Resnick-West
University of Southern California
George O. White, III
Old Dominion University
Claudia J. Ferrante (Chair)
United States Air Force Academy
Joseph Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology
Barbara A. Ritter
Coastal Carolina University
Yang Xu
Penn State University
Ricardo Gabriel Flores
Australian School of Business-UNSW
Susan McNamara
SUNY Fredonia
Anna Seferian
University of Maryland
Kim Gower
Virginia State University
Robin Smith Mathis
Texas State University- San Marcos
Rita J. Shea-Van Fossen
Ramapo College of New Jersey
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Cover Story
March 2015
Teaching and Learning
Preparing Students to Use LinkedIn to Connect to Experts
Charles Wankel, St. John’s University, wankelc@stjohns.edu
To make your students professional-level
LinkedIn users, you might adapt the
following assignments:
1. Join the social networking group
LinkedIn by going to LinkedIn.com.
Develop a profile that describes you in
an interesting and professional way.
Your profile should have a picture.
After you join, “link up” with others
by hovering your cursor over the
“Connections” tab below the search box
on the top of your profile. Then click the
“Add Connections” drop-down option.
Click “Any Email” and then “Invite by
Individual Email.” Then, enter my email
address to send me an invitation to join
your LinkedIn network.
As management increasingly involves
new technologies, it becomes incumbent
upon us as instructors to keep our
students abreast of the various uses and
opportunities presented to them. Many
are aware of social media’s advances in
marketing, but few consider management
applications. Many users are aware of an
important social medium, such as LinkedIn,
without understanding its full scope and
power. Most know that people can find jobs
through LinkedIn but how this happens is
often not apparent. Social media are ideal
for throwing students in until they can learn
to swim. That said, giving them an overview
of how to swim around in a social medium,
such as LinkedIn, can enable them to
proceed more adeptly and effectively.
2. Post your email address in Blackboard
to enable other students to connect on
LinkedIn.
3. Join Our University’s alumni LinkedIn
group by searching for it in the “Groups”
search located on the pop-down menu
to the left of the search box. Search for
Our University and you will arrive at its
group pages. Use the blue “Join” button
to request to join any of the groups you
see, such as the alumni group. Click
to join, and your request will go to the
group manager for approval.
After you are approved as a member,
using the advanced search utility (to the
right of the main search pane), you can
readily contact other group members
without knowing their email address
for such things as adding them as a
connection. So, if you are interested in
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working in publishing with an editor,
you can put the word “editor” in the
keywords field of the advanced search
window and check off the box to the
left of “Our University” in the group
area of the advanced search window.
This procedure will display people in
job functions or industries with which
you may be interested in connecting.
Using as a keyword, an industry, or
function of interest to you, you might
locate germane groups using the above
procedure. Instead of searching for
Our University’s groups, you might
use a search term, such as “Supply
Chain,” and then network with people of
interest who are members of that group
--regardless of whether or not they are
connected to Our University.
4. On the top right of your LinkedIn profile
page is an “Advanced Search” link.
Using the “Title” field and the pop-down
menu associated with it for “Current,”
enter “intercultural.” In the keywords
field, put in a word associated with
your major, such as “Accounting.”
Examine the people who you find this
way. Discuss in at least 150 words,
hypothetically, why someone might
want such a list of possible network
connections. Include specific examples
of people with whom you’ve networked
in this exercise.
5. Reflect on and evaluate the LinkedIn
projects in this course.
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ACHIEVEMENT
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AWARDS
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Nominations
2015
Each year, the Academy of Management recognizes four outstanding
individuals for their contributions to the field of management by honoring
a career of service, research, innovative teaching methods, breakthrough
developments and more.
The 2015 Career Achievement Awards will be presented at the 75th AOM Annual
Meeting in Vancouver, BC. To submit your nominations, review the award
criteria and submission guidelines, or check out the impressive list of past
winners, visit the Awards page.
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:
Academy of Management
Distinguished Educator Award
Academy of Management
Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Educator Award is
presented annually to the individual who has
excelled in developing doctoral students,
demonstrates effective teaching in the
classroom, fosters pedagogical innovations,
and/or disseminates new and effective
teaching methods and designs.
The Distinguished Service Award is an
all-Academy award presented annually to the
candidate who has demonstrated excellence
in developing or enhancing a field of study,
founding or creatively editing a journal, or
helping to build institutions through creative
or unusually effective service. Recipients of
this distinguished award include: James P.
Walsh, Irene Duhaime, John B. Miner, Denise
Rousseau, and Linda Putnam.
Recent recipients of this distinguished award
include R. Edward Freeman, Ken Smith,
William G. Mitchell, Ming-Jer Chen, Donald C.
Hambrick, and Ellen R. Auster.
Learn more about this important award and
view historical award recipients here.
Learn more about this important award and
view historical award recipients here.
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Distinguished Award for Scholarly
Contributions to Management
Academy of Management Distinguished
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The Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner
Award recognizes excellence in the successful
application of theory or research to
contemporary business settings; contribution
to knowledge through extraction of learning
from practice; authorship of scholarly works
that have greatly affected the practice of
management; and the overall integration of
their work in research and practice.
The Distinguished Award for Scholarly
Contributions to Management is granted
on an annual basis for contributions
that have significantly advanced the
field of management and organizational
knowledge and practice. Significant
scholarly contributions may take the form
of conceptual, theoretical, or empirical
developments that have a significant impact
upon management knowledge and practice.
Recipients of this distinguished award
include: Peter Drucker, Rosabeth Moss Kanter,
Victor Vroom, Henry Mitzberg, Jane Dutton,
Max H. Bazerman, Michael Tushman, and
Kathleen Eisenhardt.
Historically, the recipients of this award have
been executives, authors, academics, or
consultants, but the emphasis in this award
is on the practitioner-scholar whose sense
of inquiry and pursuit of knowledge has
risen above just doing, to use practice-based
learning to influence theory and researchbased theory to influence practice. Recipients
of this distinguished award include: Lotte
Bailyn, Philip H. Mirvis, Thomas Kochan,
Warner Burke, and John Van Maanen.
Learn more about this important award and
view historical award recipients here.
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view historical award recipients here.
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PUBLICATIONS SPOTLIGHT
Call For Papers
Academy of Management Learning & Education is soliciting papers for
2 special collections. The first collection is “The Legitimacy and the
Impact of Business Schools” with Ken Starkey and Andrew Pettigrew.
For more details, click here. Due date for submissions to this collection
is September 30, 2015. The second collection is titled “Ethics in
Management Research: Collusion, Competition, or Collaboration?” (with
Benson Honig, Joseph Lampel, Don Siegel, and Paul Drnevich as guest
editors). For more details, click here. Due date for submissions for this
collection is December 1, 2015.
Academy of Management
Learning & Education
Most read articles:
“Introduction: Design Thinking for
Learning”
Volume 13, Issue 4, 2014
Academy of Management Journal is seeking submissions for a Special
Research Forum that offers insight on the “grand challenges” for
management and organizations. Review the guidelines, and submit your
paper today!
“The Need for Design Thinking in
Business Schools”
Volume 13, Issue 4, 2014
“Scholarly Impact: A Pluralist
Conceptualization”
Volume 13, Issue 4, 2014
“Introduction: What Professor
Garfield Wrought and What
Management Scholars Are Attempting
to Reclaim”
Volume 13, Issue 4, 2014
Current Publications
Read the newest issues of AOM Publications, available online now:
Academy of Management
Learning & Education:
December 2014
Volume 13, Number 4
Most Cited Articles:
“Bad Management Theories Are
Destroying Good Management
Practices”
Volume 4, Issue 1, 2005
Academy of Management
Journal:
February 2015
Volume 58, Number 1
“The End of Business Schools? Less
Success Than Meets the Eye”
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2002
Academy of Management
Perspectives:
November 2014
Volume 28, Number 4
“Learning Styles and Learning
Spaces: Enhancing Experiential
Learning in Higher Education”
Volume 4, Issue 2, 2005
Academy of Management
Review:
January 2015
Volume 40, Number 1
“When Knowledge Wins:
Transcending the Sense and
Nonsense of Academic Rankings”
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2009
Academy of Management
Annals (Forthcoming):
2015
Volume 9, Number 1
“Reinventing Business Schools: The
Contribution of Critical Management
Education”
Volume 3, Issue 2, 2004
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Publications
March 2015
Editor’s Corner
Christine Quinn Trank, Editor, Academy of Management Learning & Education
and empirical work on image and identity
into a call to action for business schools
that they argued were shifting focus from
substance to image. Christopher Earley and
Randall Peterson brought their expertise in
cross-cultural phenomena and international
business to a paper on training for global
managers. What strikes me about each
piece is how the depth of disciplinary
insight contributed to the weight of their
contribution to education.
It was a great question, but it is the type
of question that should not be left to lively
discussions in doctoral seminars. These are
the types of questions that go to the heart
of disciplinary practices and discourse in
education. With my encouragement Jeff
ended up working on a project for the class
exploring whether and how institutional
theory appeared in strategy textbooks (and
why it might not). Later we worked together
on extending the study, and the work
culminated in a publication that appeared
in Academy of Management Learning and
Education. I tell this story because I don’t
think Jeff (now Professor Stambaugh) would
consider himself to be a researcher focused
on the scholarship of teaching and learning
(SOTL); rather, his curiosity and reflection
about his discipline led him to ask questions
about instructional practices and materials.
This type of study is just one of many
ways Academy of Management members’
disciplinary interests can (and should)
connect with the AMLE.
A few years ago, I was teaching a doctoral
seminar in organizational theory. I assigned
a number of readings that connected
institutional theory to the strategy literature,
hoping to generate interest in organization
theory among the several students who
were focused on strategy in their doctoral
studies. Most of the readings show that
institutional theory is increasingly integrated
into strategy research, but Jeff Stambaugh,
one of the students in the seminar who also
was teaching a section of strategy in the
undergraduate program, had a question. He
asked, “If institutional theory is so connected
to strategy research, why isn’t institutional
theory in the textbook I’m using?”
Without question, articles in the journal that
focus on traditional topics on teaching and
learning are incredibly valuable for members
of the Academy, whether in education,
consulting, or in business organizations.
AMLE is an indispensable resource on
everything from how to avoid negative
student evaluations of instruction to how
to improve peer evaluation in teams. SOTL
is a vital part of our mission. But my hope
is that all members of the Academy come
to see a connection between AMLE and
their disciplines, and to bring some of the
conversations occurring at conferences,
in hallways and in doctoral seminars more
deliberately into the pages of the journal.
Just as AMR, AMJ, AMP and now AMD are
seen as open to all disciplines, we want to
encourage all disciplines to consider AMLE a
publication home.
If you look at some of the most cited papers
in the journal, you will see how scholars
connect their core disciplinary commitments
to the context of teaching, learning and
education. Christopher Grey, who now
serves on our editorial board, brought
his critical management studies lens to
questions of curriculum and instruction
in business schools. Dennis Gioia and
Kevin Corley brought their theoretical
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TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES
The Academy of Management provides
members with access to some of the latest
developments in management education,
including undergraduate, graduate, and
doctoral programs. Below, you’ll find links
to a number of different teaching resources,
including information on a number of
different Division and Interest Group
Teaching Committees.
The Human Resources (HR) Division offers
information on teaching organizations,
journals, cases, and the latest tips and
news from their Teaching Committee.
Similarly, the Organizations and the Natural
Environment (ONE) Division offers access
to multimedia, project ideas, case studies,
and much more, including resources from
their Teaching Team.
Teaching committees connect some of
the brightest minds in management and
education, and provide some of the best
insights into higher education at all levels.
What’s more, the Business Policy and
Strategy (BPS), Gender and Diversity in
Organizations (GDO) and Organization
and Management Theory (OMT) Divisions
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provide access to syllabi, case studies,
interviews, roundtables, and more. The
International Management (IM) Division
also offers a number of teaching exercises
and tools, as well.
Finally, the Health Care Management
(HCM) Division and Entrepreneurship (ENT)
Division Teaching Committees provide
access to the some of the brightest minds
in management education. Be sure to
check out all that the Divisions and Interest
Groups have to offer for the latest Teaching
and Learning tips!
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Division & Interest Group News
March 2015
Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division
OMT: The Place to Be for a Lifetime of Teaching and Learning
Candace Jones, OMT Division Chair
OMT provides developmental teaching and
learning opportunities for its members
throughout an academic career:
•International Developmental Workshops:
Senior members who serve as editors
and members of review boards for major
journals mentor junior members in specific
topic areas.
•Social Network and Teaching Social
Networks PDWs: Enhance learning social
network theories and methods and
teaching these to undergraduate, MBA, and
executive audiences.
•Dissertation Proposal Workshop: Preproposal students draw on the wisdom
and expertise of a group of established
OMT scholars to develop a defensible
dissertation proposal.
•Jr. Faculty Consortium: Provides
interaction with senior colleagues and
peers on prospering in an academic career
(1) publishing research, (2) strategies
for impact and growth as a scholar and
teacher, and (3) navigating early careers in
diverse institutional settings.
•Doctoral Consortium: Helps final phase
doctoral students prepare for the job
market and future careers, including how to
advance and publish your research, find an
academic or professional job, and, establish
professional networks with colleagues who
share similar research interests.
•Teach OMT Roundtables: Enables doctoral
students and junior faculty to interact
with experienced faculty mentors to focus
on OMT course topics (e.g., Strategy,
Social Networks, Organization Theory,
Entrepreneurship), teaching methods
(e.g., case discussions, simulations),
and contexts (e.g. large lectures, service
learning).
OMT is also a fun place to be! We give
artifacts, and host socials where you
meet new friends and reconnect with
established friends. At Academy, Meet OMT
is Friday night, OMT Cafes and OMT Bike are
throughout the day Friday-Saturday, and
OMT Social Hour is Monday night. Come
join us at one or all - even if you are not yet a
member of OMT!
Human Resources (HR) Division
The HR Division’s Commitment to Teaching and Learning
Janet H. Marler, State University of New York at Albany, Chair of HR Division Teaching Committee
Christopher C. Rosen, University of Arkansas, Chair of HR Division Membership and Communications Committee
The HR Division leadership has committed to
doing just that. To this end, we implemented
a new approach to proactively develop
a series of teaching-related PDWs for the
upcoming AOM meeting in Vancouver.
The Human Resources (HR) Division is
dedicated to better understanding how
organizations can perform more effectively
via management of their human resources.
Part of our mission is to foster networks
aimed at discovering and disseminating
HR knowledge. In a recent member survey,
75% of respondents indicated they were
interested in having the HR Division provide
additional teaching resources and content.
The PDWs are organized in three standalone
sessions on a single day, and attendees
can join for all or part of the series. They
will feature award-winning faculty sharing
effective and innovative approaches to
teaching HRM. The first session features
Stan Gully and Mark Huselid sharing ideas
about how to teach strategic HRM to
students ranging from undergraduates
to executive MBAs. The second session
involves the winners of the HR Division’s
Innovative Teaching Award demonstrating
award-winning innovation. The third session
is a return of the successful PDW from last
year developed by Suzanne de Janasz and
Caren Goldberg. This PDW brings together
faculty who teach at a variety of levels in the
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U.S., Europe, and Asia to share their best
experiential exercises. The overall goal of
these sessions is to support those teaching
HRM by providing valuable information,
approaches, and experiential activities they
can implement immediately. The day and
times for these sessions will be announced
once AOM has finalized the schedule.
The HR Division is committed to providing
high-quality teaching resources for our
members. We welcome your suggestions
about how we may better deliver on this
commitment, so please contact us with any
thoughts you have.
Learn more about the HR Division by visiting
our website or following us on Twitter.
Division & Interest Group News
March 2015
Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division
CMS: Take a Walk From the “Bright Side” to Reflect on the “Dark Side”
Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Co-Program Chair-elect, CMS Division
Paul Donnelly, Co-Program Chair-elect, CMS Division
of mainstream business education to
focus on the “bright side” has meant that
conventional cases tend not to question the
taken-for-granted assumptions and practices
underpinning contemporary capitalism,
including the primacy of the for-profit motive.
Celine Louche and Nigel Roome, winners of the 2014
CMS Division Dark Side Case Competition
Since 2002, the CMS Division has been running
its Dark Side Case-Writing Competition to
both foster and recognize the development
of cases that encourage reflection and
debate on the “dark side” of contemporary
capitalism.
The enduring popularity of the case method
of teaching is grounded in the view that a
business education amounts to training in
best practice to solve business problems.
However, corporate scandals of recent
years have served to draw attention to the
method’s shortcomings: the predisposition
Thus was born the dark-side case competition
to focus attention on issues typically ignored
by more conventional cases—“the broader
system and how it permits, encourages, even
forces firms to do terrible things” (Paul Adler,
cited in Raufflet and Mills, 2009, p.5)—with
a view to inspiring the development of
high-quality teaching material in support of a
critical and reflective learning environment.
Over the competition’s 14 years, cases
have covered a variety of issues (from
multinational corporations to entrepreneurial
start-ups), at different levels (from microlevel interpersonal dilemmas and conflicts,
to more macro-level decisions and actions
with broad social, economic and political
implications), in a range of countries.
Indeed, thanks to the competition, colleagues
now have their choice of a growing selection
of material with which to introduce students
to critical perspectives on management,
organizations and the role of business in
society, and work with them in reflecting on
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DIVISION & INTEREST GROUP
NEWS RESOURCES
Health Care Management (HCM) Division:
In the final issue of the HCM
newsletter, Division chair Rebecca
Wells highlights the HCM socials in
Philadelphia, recognizes the 2014
Reviewer Award winners, and calls
for nominees for their 2015 awards
for the upcoming Annual Meeting in
Vancouver, Canada.
Management Education & Development
(MED) Division:
MED Program Chair Peter
McNamara gives an update on all
the submissions for the 2015 Annual
Meeting; PDW Chair Miguel R. OlivasLuján explains the advantages of
PDW sessions at the Annual Meeting;
and in his column, Jacob Eisenberg
wonders if it’s time to “click the
‘refresh’ button,” on business school
rankings.
the often accepted, yet questionable, logics
[MM3] of business.
For those interested, and with a view to
fostering the community of critical case
writers and teachers, the Division’s 2015 PDW
Program includes a workshop dedicated to
writing and teaching critical cases.
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