Call and Annoucements
Call for Papers: Kenneth E. Clark Student Research Award
The Center for Creative Leadership is sponsoring the Kenneth E. Clark Student Research Award, our annual competition to recognize outstanding unpublished papers by undergraduate and graduate students. Winner will receive a prize of $1,500 and a trip to the Center to present the paper in a colloquium.
Submissions may be either empirically or conceptually based and the contents should focus on some aspect of leadership or leadership development.
Submissions will be judged by (a) degree to which the paper addresses issues and trends that are significant to the study of leadership; (b) extent to which the paper shows consideration of the relevant theoretical and empirical literature; (c) extent to which the paper makes a conceptual or empirical contribution; (d) implications of the research for application to leadership identification and development. Researchers associated with the Center will anonymously review papers.
Papers must be authored and submitted only by graduate (must have graduated within 1 year of submission due date) or undergraduate students. Entrants must provide a letter from a faculty member certifying that a student wrote the paper. Entrants should submit four copies of an article length paper. Name of the author(s) should appear only on the title page of the paper. Title page should include authors’ affiliations, mailing addresses and telephone numbers.
Papers are limited to 30 doublespaced pages, excluding title page, abstract, tables, figures and references. Papers should be prepared according to current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
Entries (accompanied by faculty letters) must be received by September 7, 2007. Winning paper will be announced by December 3, 2007. Submit entries to David Altman, Sr. VP Leadership & Innovation, Center for Creative Leadership, One Leadership Place, P.O. Box 26300, Greensboro, N.C. 27438-6300.
Call for Papers: Work, Stress, and Health 2008
Healthy and Safe Work Through Research, Practice, and Partnerships
The 7th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health
March 6–8, 2008
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, DC
Proposal submission deadline: August 31, 2007. For more information and online submissions, please visit the conference Web site at http://www.apa.org/pi/work/wsh.html.
Pennsylvania State University 15th Annual Symposium
October 8–9, 2007
“Work-Life Policies That Make a Real Difference for Individuals, Families, and Organizations” is the title of Penn States 15th Annual Symposium on Family Issues, to be held October 8–9, 2007. The topic will be addressed by 16 scholars from major universities and work–family research centers. The symposium is innovative for the integration of perspectives from multiple social sciences as well as for addressing policy implications. Presentations and discussions at the symposium will focus on which workplace practices have the most potential to improve the well-being of employees and their families, policies to address workplace challenges for salaried as well as hourly employees, how to conduct effective intervention research, and questions that remain for researchers of work–life policies. Lead speakers include Ellen Ernst Kossek, (Michigan State University School of Labor & Industrial Relations), Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen (both of University of Minnesota), Susan Lambert (School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago), and Jennifer Glass (University of Iowa). Information and registration available at http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/symposium/2007.htm or contact Carolyn Scott (814)863-6806, css7@psu.edu.