Calls & Announcements
Call for Nominations
American Psychological Foundation
2005 Harry and Miriam Levinson Award
The American Psychological Foundation requests nominations for the 2005 Harry and Miriam Levinson Award for Exceptional Contributions to Consulting Organizational Psychology.
The Levinson award is administered by the APA Office of Division Services in conjunction with APA Divisions 13 (Consulting Psychology), 14 (Industrial-Organizational Psychology), and 39 (Psychoanalysis). A committee of the three divisions solicits nominations, reviews nomination materials, and submits the recommended recipients name and credentials to the APF board of trustees for final approval. The recipient receives $5,000 and a certificate of recognition.
Eligibility. According to the agreement establishing the Harry Levinson Fund with the Foundation, an annual award is to be given to an APA member who has demonstrated exceptional ability to integrate a wide variety of psychological theory and concepts and to convert that integration into applications by which leaders and managers may create more effective, healthy, and humane organizations.
Nomination procedure. Nominations must include two elements: (a) a letter of nomination addressing the nominees record of accomplishment with regard to the award criteria (self-nomination is acceptable) and (b) the nominees current curriculum vitae. All nomination materials must be submitted in electronic format only. A cover e-mail note with the two attached files (in Microsoft Word or PDF formats) should be sent to
division@apa.org.
Deadline. March 15, 2005. Announcement of the recipient is expected to occur by or after April 15.
For more information, please contact the American Psychological Foundation at foundation@apa.org. The APF encourages nominations for individuals that represent diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation.
Call for Papers
Special Issue on
Incorporating Behavioral Theory in OM Empirical Models
Guest Editors: Elliot Bendoly and Ken Schultz
The special issue on Incorporating Behavioral Theory in OM Empirical Models aims to publish a set of papers that draw upon established behavioral theory (particularly microlevel) from various disciplines of management as well as from external associated fields such as psychology and sociology. The relevance of the application of these theories in clarifying and extending the understanding of issues of importance to operations management researchers should be made obvious, as required in general for submission to
Journal of Operations Management (JOM).
Furthermore, because the focus in this special issue is in the application of behavioral theory in empirical modeling, submissions are expected to involve empirical data collection and analysis at their foundation. Anticipated methodologies suitable for this special issue include both survey and experimental (either controlled or action-research based) research. For additional submission guidelines see
JOMs editorial philosophy online. (http://www.mgt.ncsu.edu/jom/Ed_Philosophy.html)
Manuscripts must be postmarked by April 15, 2005 and conform to JOM
requirements. Submissions before the due date are welcome and will be reviewed when received. Reviews will be double blind, following
JOM review procedures. The guest editors in consultation with the editor-in-chief of
JOM will make all final decisions as to the suitability of manuscripts for the special issue.
MS Word formatted manuscripts should be submitted to either:
Elliot Bendoly, Assistant Professor, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 1300 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30307 (USA);
elliot_bendoly@bus.emory.edu or Ken Schultz, Assistant Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (USA).
Call for Papers
Individual Differences Research Group announces a general call for papers for two new peer-reviewed journals:
Psychology Research Journal and Journal of Worry and Affective Experience.
Psychology Research Journal (ISSN: 1553-1678), slated to begin publication in March 2005, is seeking papers on all psychological research topics. This journal is dedicated to publishing brief reports (typically no more than 15 double-spaced manuscript pages). Papers must be scholarly in nature and, though brief, include the necessary information to meet traditional rigorous scientific standards.
Journal of Worry and Affective Experience (ISSN: 1546-0924), expected to begin publication in February 2005, seeks full-length and brief papers on all aspects of affect (broadly defined) and related cognitive topics such as worry, coping, and attribution. Papers may examine these topics from any perspective (e.g., job satisfaction, effects of affect on performance, work related worry and stress, day-to-day functioning, clinical application, assessment).
Submissions to both journals are accepted via surface mail or as an e-mail attachment. Visit our Web site
(http://www.idrg.org/) or contact us by e-mail
(info@idrg.org), for additional information and submission instructions. IDRG; P.O. Box 1723; Kingsville, TX 78364-1723.
Call for Papers
Organizational Research Methods is pleased to announce a Feature Topic on
Nonresponse to Organizational Surveys.
Papers that address, but are not necessarily restricted to, the following topics are most welcome:
1. Typical response rates achieved in both academic and applied survey research
2. Trends in survey response rates and factors behind those trends
3. Facilitating response to surveys through social and organizational interventions
4. Procedural and design decisions that impact response rates
5. The effect of response facilitation methods on data quality
6. The demographic, attitudinal, and personality factors associated with nonrespondents
7. The individual, group, organizational, and cultural factors that can explain response and nonresponse to a survey
8. The processes leading to response or nonresponse
9. Methodologies to assess nonresponse bias
We invite empirical, conceptual (i.e., new theory) and literature review papers. We also welcome papers offering guidelines and best practices that are based on solid empirical work published previously (these would be useful for people who are planning on conducting a survey). Papers focusing on Internet/Intranet surveys are particularly welcome.
Two types of articles will be published: (a) feature articles and (b) research notes. Feature articles are full-length empirical, conceptual, or theoretical manuscripts typical of
ORM contributions. Research notes are narrower in scope than a feature article. Research notes should make an important contribution regardless of length, but the contribution would be narrower, perhaps addressing a more specific issue/topic as opposed to broader issues. Research notes should represent original empirical research or replications of important extant studies. Research notes should be approximately 2,500 words in length (excluding tables and references).
The guest editors for this feature topic are Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg, University of North CarolinaCharlotte (sgrogelb@email.uncc.edu; 704-687-4742) and Dr. Jeffrey M. Stanton, Syracuse University (jmstanto@syr.edu, 315.443.2879).
Information can be found at orm.sagepub.com.
Request for Proposals
Promoting Psychological Research and Training
on Health Disparities Issues at Ethnic Minority Serving Institutions
A small grants program funded by the American Psychological Association (APA) Science Directorates Academic Enhancement Initiative and administered by the APA Public Interest Directorates Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs (OEMA) in collaboration with the APA Minority Fellowship Program.
Promoting Psychological Research and Training on Health Disparities Issues at Ethnic Minority Serving Institutions Grants (ProDIGs) will be awarded to early career faculty for specific, limited, and highly focused activities that are both preliminary and related to the preparation of a federal or foundation funding proposal, and able to be fully implemented during a 12 to 18 month period.
Brief descriptions of projects of previous recipients of ProDIGS grants are available at
http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/programs/pemsi_description.pdf.
Application
Although there is no formal application to complete, applicants should consider including the following materials with their submission:
Cover memo and recent curriculum vitae.
Letter(s) of support from your respective academic department/program.
Detailed budget of your proposed research or program/curriculum devel- opment effort.
Request and Deadline for Applications
Questions should be directed to Sonja Preston of the APA Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs (OEMA) at 202-336-6029 or
spreston@apa.org.
Deadline for receipt of complete applications is February 21, 2005.
Announcement
Applied Psychological Techniques, Inc. (APT)was recently namedone of the top 50 diversity-owned businesses in Connecticutby DiversityBusiness.com and has received their 2004 Div50 Award. This award annually recognizes diversity-owned businesses in a broad range of sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service, and professional services. APT was also a recipient of the 2003 Div50 Award.
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