Calls & Announcements
Call for Submissions
23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management
June 24–27, 2010
Boston, Massachusetts
Submission Deadline: February 8, 2010, 5:00 p.m. EST
The International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) was founded to encourage scholars and practitioners to develop and disseminate theory, research, and experience that are useful for understanding and improving conflict management in organizational, societal, family, and international settings.
You are invited to submit a paper, symposium, or workshop for the 2010 meeting of IACM to be held in Boston, Massachusetts. Submissions should present new material, distinct from published works (including those that will appear in print before the conference) and presentations at other conferences. Presentations can be submitted as either full-length papers or extended abstracts. Other formats include symposia, debates, roundtables, and workshops. Submissions should be consistent with one or more of the general content areas listed below. We encourage innovative submissions that highlight dialogues between theory and practice, different cultures, different content areas, and different disciplines (e.g., psychology, economics, political science, computer science, neuroscience).
Program content areas include negotiation, decision processes, communication, conflict in the public sector, culture and conflict, social justice, third party intervention, environmental and public resource conflict, international and intergroup conflict, organizational conflict, and terrorism.
For more details on submission format and procedures, please see the full call for submissions available online at www.iacm-conflict.org.
Keynote Speaker: Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Program Chair: Jana L. Raver, Queen’s University, Queen’s School of Business, jraver@business.queensu.ca
Faculty Chair, Local Arrangements Committee: Hannah Riley Bowles, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, hannah_bowles@harvard.edu
Conference hotel: Boston Marriott Cambridge in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA. http://www.marriottcambridge.com
Information/membership: For membership information and updates regarding the association and the conference, please see the IACM Web site: http://www.iacm-conflict.org/.
Call for Papers and Reviewers
Special Issue of Management Decision Entitled “Enhancing Decisions”
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2010
The focus of the issue is on ways to help people with managerial responsibilities at work and in their private lives enhance decision-making skills and success. Selection of papers for the issue is based on likely interest to individuals who want to improve their own skills, to faculty members in various disciplines, and even more so to readers who have management development responsibilities.
The publisher of the special edition, Emerald Publishing, is the world’s leading publisher of management papers. Its focus on theory-into-practice means that Emerald publishes papers with direct application to the world of work.
Papers can address research or individual viewpoints. They can be technical or conceptual papers, case studies, literature reviews, or general reviews.
All papers will be double-blind reviewed after a preliminary screening by the guest editor.
As a guide, papers should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. A title of not more than 12 words should be provided. Specific instructions for registering and for submitting papers are at the end of this call. Deadline is August 1, 2010.
Please submit your paper online after creating an author account at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/md. Then follow the on-screen guidance that takes you through the submission process. Also, please send a copy to the guest editor, Erwin Rausch at didacticra@aol.com. Extensions of the deadline can be requested from him, if needed.
Information of interest to authors is on http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/md/notes.jsp.
For inquiries, please contact Erwin Rausch at didacticra@aol.com.
Human Resource Management Review
Special Issue Call for Papers
Construct Clarity in Human Resource Management Research
Guest Editors:
Dr. John E. Delery, University of Arkansas, jdelery@walton.uark.edu
Dr. Howard J. Klein, The Ohio State University, klein.12@osu.edu
Background and Rationale for this Special Issue
Clear, concise construct definitions are fundamental for effective theory building and the accumulation of knowledge through research. Without tight conceptual definitions, it is difficult to clearly explicate the nomological network around that construct or prevent unnecessary construct contamination, proliferation, and redundancy. It also becomes difficult to develop or validate sound measures that operationalize those constructs with the appropriate content domain, level of analysis, degree of specificity, and dimensionality without clearly specified construct definitions. The problem of poorly defined constructs is not unique to human resource management (HRM), but it has also not received the attention in HRM that it has in other literatures.
The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum on construct clarity in HRM research. For this issue, authors are invited to submit articles that (a) offer insights into this key aspect of theory building, (b) highlight issues in the literature that stem from ill-defined constructs, and/or (c) propose new, integrative, or refined definitions for key HRM constructs. The editors of this special issue are happy to answer any questions or discuss initial ideas for papers and can be contacted directly at the e-mail addresses above. This call is open and competitive. Papers submitted for this special issue will go through a standard double-blind review process. The deadline for submitting manuscripts is Monday, January 25, 2010.
For additional information including illustrative examples of ways manuscripts can contribute to this forum and submission instructions, please visit: http://fisher.osu.edu/~klein_12/Construct_Clarity_Call_for_papers.doc.
Announcing the 2009–2010 James C. Johnson
Student Paper Competition
The International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC) is sponsoring its annual James C. Johnson Student Paper Competition in order to recognize the contributions of students in the field of personnel assessment. The winner of the 2009–2010 competition will be invited to present his or her paper at the 2010 IPAC conference to be held in Newport Beach, CA, July 18–21, 2010. The winner will receive up to $600 in conference-related travel expenses, free conference registration, and a 1-year membership in IPAC. In addition, the university department in which the student completed his or her research will be awarded a $500 grant, as well as a plaque commemorating the student’s IPAC award achievement.
Submission may be based on any type of student paper including a thesis or dissertation. The deadline for receipt of entries is March 22, 2010. Papers should be submitted via e-mail to Dr. Lee Friedman at the e-mail address below. IPAC Student Paper Competition cover sheets should be mailed hard copy directly to Dr. Friedman at the work address below.
NOTE: Students do not need to be a member of IPAC to enter.
For further information or for submission materials, please contact Dr. Lee Friedman, LMI, 13481 Falcon View Court, Bristow, VA 20136; Phone: (571) 331-1388; e-mail: leefriedman1406@yahoo.com.
Call for Scholarships at the Erasmus Mundus Program (2010–2012)
(Non-European Students)
Take advantage of this opportunity and join the European Master of Work, Organization and Personnel Psychology (WOP-P) (www.erasmuswop.org).
The European Union is increasing support for students and scholars to take part in joint programs in Europe. For 2010–2011, the EU has a call for scholarships for European and non-European students and non-European scholars aiming to study/teach at the master’s in work, organizational, and personnel psychology (WOP-P). Studies can be developed in the following universities: Universitat de València (Spain), Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), Université René Descartes Paris 5 (France), Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna (Italy), and Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal).
The WOP-P Master is a program currently awarded by the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Program and the only one in its professional and academic area. This cooperation and mobility program has been conceived to support high-quality European master’s and promote the visibility and attractiveness of the European higher education. Following its objective to become a reference program around the globe, the new call includes three modalities in its scholarship scheme.
Non-European students: Scholarships are offered to European students who wish to apply for the master in a different country from the one in which they have obtained their degree in psychology.
Call will be open 20 February to 20 April 2010. Application information available online by 1 February 2010.
Information for all programs is available at www.erasmuswop.org.