Announcement
The Board of Convention Affairs would like each person with a disability
who is planning to attend the APA Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 15-19, 1997, to
identify himself or herself and to provide information on how we can make the convention
more readily accessible for his or her attendance. APA will provide a van with a lift as
transportation for persons in wheelchairs, interpreters for hearing-impaired individuals,
and escorts/readers for persons with visual impairments. We strongly urge individuals who
would like assistance in facilitating their attendance at the convention to register in
advance for the convention on the APA Advance Registration and Housing Form which will
appear in the March through May issues of the American Psychologist. A note which
outlines a person's specific needs should accompany the Advance Registration and Housing
Form.
We encourage persons with disabilities to select one of the following
convention hotels for housing as they are the best ones equipped to deal with special
access issues: 1) Hyatt Regency Chicago; 2) Sheraton Chicago; 3) Fairmont Hotel Chicago;
4) Days Inn of Chicago.
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC: 20002-4242
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Campaign to Promote Psychology Needs Your Help
APA's public education campaign is helping to make the public more aware
of psychology's presence in the health care community. Through various media and community
outreach efforts, we are educating the public about the value of psychology. Advertising,
another component of the campaign, will complement these activities at the state and local
level.
Your contribution of $100 to the campaign will be used to provide
funding for state and local associations and APA divisions to help pay for local
advertising. Get involved. Send your check to: Accounting/Public Education Campaign,
American Psychological Association, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20077-0522.
The Division 1 Executive Committee
Announces Annual Awards Competition
The Division of General Psychology has inaugurated three new awards to
recognize outstanding achievements in general psychology. For some time we have supported
the William James Book Award. In addition to that award, we have inaugurated three new
awards that recognize contributions to the field of general psychology. The Ernest R.
Hilgard Award recognizes life-time contributions to general psychology; the George A.
Miller Award honors an outstanding recent article in general psychology; and the Gardner
Lindzey Award recognizes an outstanding recent doctoral dissertation in general
psychology.
In each case the awards include a plaque or certificate, and the
Hilgard, Miller, and Lindzey Awards include a check for $500.00. The William James Book
Award includes a check for $1,000.00.
For all of these awards, including the William James Book Award, the
focus is on both the quality of the work and the linkages it makes between the diverse
fields of psychological theory and research. The primary intent of the Division of General
Psychology is to encourage not only the integration of knowledge across the subfields of
psychology, but the inclusion of contributions from other disciplines as well. A match
between this goal of the Division and the nominated work will be one of the important
criteria against which the work will be evaluated.
For all of these awards, self-nominations are encouraged, as well as
nominations by others. For the Hilgard, Lindzey, and Miller Awards, nominators are asked
to submit the candidate's name and vita, along with both a detailed statement as to why
the nominee should be considered for the award, and supporting letters from others who
endorse the recommendation.
For the Lindzey and Miller Awards, nominations should also include four
copies of the article or dissertation being considered. Nominations for the William James
Award should include three copies of the book; a one-page statement that explains the
strengths of the submission; and the author(s) vita. In addition, each submission must be
clearly marked as to the award for which it is to be considered.
Nominations for the William James Award must be mailed to Frank Farley
on or before May 15, 1997. Nominations for the remaining awards should be submitted to Dr.
Helen Warren Ross, 2449 Ardath Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037 (telephone 619-594-7715) on or
before May 15, 1997 .
Adolescent Girls Task Force Survey
APA's Task Force on Adolescent Girls: Strengths and Stresses is
conducting research for a proposed trade publication. The goal of this research is to
gather the most frequently asked questions and concerns about being an adolescent in
today's society from adolescents and their parents. If you would like to participate in
this effort, contact: Task Force on Adolescent Girls,
C/O Kelly Kennai, American Psychological Association, 750 First St.,
NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242.
Announcing the Third Annual HR Junior Faculty
Consortium at the National Academy of Management Meetings-Boston
Due to the success of the HR Junior Faculty Consortium at the last two
Academy Meetings, the HR division will again host a consortium for junior faculty at the
1997 Academy Meetings in Boston.
The consortium will begin on Saturday (August 9th) at 10:00 a.m., and
run through noon on Sunday (August 10th). The format will be a series of round table
discussions in order to maximize the interactions between the participants and the
presenters.
The round tables will include:
Editor's Round Table
Rodger Griffeth, Human Resource Management Review
John Hollenbeck, Personnel Psychology
Greg Northcraft, Academy of Management Journal
Dave Ulrich, Human Resource Management Journal
Robert Vecchio, Journal of Management
Research Round Table
Robert A. Baron, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Herb Heneman, University of Wisconsin
Susan Jackson, New York University
M. Susan Taylor, University of Maryland
Life as an Assistant Professor
John Delery, University of Arkansas
Wayne Hochwarter, University of Alabama
Ellen Kossick, Michigan State University
Breakfast with the Regional Academy Presidents
Paul Buller, Western Academy
Marilyn Fox, Midwest Academy
Geralyn Franklin, Southwest Academy
Alison Konrad, Eastern Academy
Mark Martinko, Southern Academy
Teaching Round Table
Randy Dunham, University of Wisconsin
Stella Nkomo, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Bruce Meglino, University of South Carolina
Service Round Table
Deborah Crown, University of Alabama
Jerry Hunt, Texas Tech University
In order to qualify to attend, a person must hold pretenure status, be a
member of the HR division, and register in advance. If you are interested in attending,
please send a current vita, a short biographical sketch of yourself, and a check for
$30.00 (payable to the Academy of Management) to Micki Kacmar at the address listed below.
If you have any questions feel free to contact any of the coordinators:
Mark Huselid Micki Kacmar
SMLR Department of Management
Rutgers University Florida State University
P.O. Box 5062 Tallahassee, FL 32306-1042
New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5062 (904) 644-7881
(980) 445-5445 mkacmar@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
huselid@rci.rutgers.edu
Patrick Wright
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University
393 Ives Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-3901
(607) 255-3429
pmw6@cornell.edu
Call For Papers: The Kenneth E. Clark Research Award
The Center for Creative Leadership is sponsoring the Kenneth E. Clark
Research Award-one for best undergraduate paper, and one for best graduate
paper. This is named in honor of the distinguished scholar and former Chief Executive
Officer of the Center.
The winners of these awards will receive a prize of $1,500 and a trip to
the Center to present the papers in a colloquium. The Center also will assist the authors
in publishing their work in the Leadership Quarterly journal.
Submissions may be either empirically or conceptually based.
Non-traditional and multi-disciplinary approaches to leadership research are welcomed. the
theme for the 1997 award is "The Dynamics and Contexts of Leadership," which
includes issues such as: (a) leadership during times of rapid change, (b) cross-cultural
issues in leadership, (c) leadership in team settings, (d) leadership for quality
organizations, (e) meta-studies or comparative studies of leadership models, (f) other
innovative or unexplored perspectives of leadership.
Submissions will be judged by the following criteria: (1) The degree to
which the paper addresses issues and trends that are significant to the study of
leadership; (2) The extent to which the paper shows consideration of the relevant
theoretical and empirical literature; (3) The degree to which the paper develops
implications for research into the dynamics and contexts of leadership; (4) The extent to
which the paper makes a conceptual or empirical contribution; (5) The implications of the
research for application to leadership identification and development. Papers will be
reviewed anonymously by a panel of researchers associated with the Center.
Papers must be authored and submitted only by graduate or undergraduate
students. Center staff and submissions to other Center awards are ineligible. Entrants
must provide a letter from a faculty member certifying that the paper was written by a
student, and stating the nature of the student's status (i.e., undergraduate or graduate).
Entrants should submit four copies of an article-length paper. Electronic submissions will
not be accepted. The name of the author(s) should appear only on the title page of the
paper. The title page should also show the authors' affiliations, mailing addresses and
telephone numbers, and also indicate whether it is for graduate or undergraduate award
category.
Papers are limited to 20 double-spaced pages, including title page,
abstract, tables, figures, notes, and references. Papers should be prepared according to
current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
In the absence of papers deemed deserving of the awards, the awards may
be withheld. Entries (accompanied by faculty letters) must be received by August 29,
1997. Winning papers will be announced by October 31, 1997. Entries should be
submitted to Dr. Walter Tornow, Vice President, Research and Publication, Center for
Creative Leadership, One Leadership Place, P O Box 26300, Greensboro NC 27438-6300.
'97 OB/OMT Junior Faculty Consortium
Pre-Convention Activity
1997 National Academy of Management Meetings
Boston, MA
The Organizational Behavior/Organization and Management Theory Divisions
of the Academy of Management are sponsoring the 16th annual Junior Faculty Workshop to be
held during the pre-conference period of the 1997 Academy of Management Meetings in
Boston. The workshop will begin with dinner on Friday, August 8, and continue to noon on
Sunday, August 10.
Presentations by invited panelists and small group discussions among
panelists and participants will focus on research, teaching, and juggling the multiple
demands of academic careers. The workshop enables junior faculty to meet and form
collegial networks with their peers. The coordinators for this year's workshop from OB are
Carol Kulik (University of Illinois) and Blake Ashforth (Arizona State); from OMT they
are Eric Abrahamson (Columbia) and Jerry Davis (Columbia).
The workshop is intended for people who have held an assistant professor
(or equivalent) position for between one and four years. Participants must be current
members of either OB or OMT Divisions as of May, 1997; have completed their dissertations;
and currently (as of January 1997) hold an assistant professor (or equivalent)
appointment.
Applicants should include a current vita (with current address, phone,
fax, and email), and a letter containing (1) a one-paragraph description of current
research interests, and (2) a one-paragraph description of their academic career to date.
Applicants should also note in their letter whether they are applying to the OB or OMT
divisions. A $30 check made payable to the Academy of Management should accompany your
application. The check is in partial payment for a catered dinner on Friday evening.
Please send applications no sooner than March, 1997 but no later than June 1, 1997.
Please send application materials to:
Professor Carol T. Kulik
Department of Business Admin.
University of Illinois
1206 S. Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217-244-0208
Fax: 217-244-7969
Email: c-kulik@uiuc.edu
or Professor Eric Abrahamson
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
720 Uris Hall
New York, NY 10027
Phone: 212-854-4432
Fax: 212-864-4857
Email: eabraham@research.gsb.columbia.edu
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