Dear HR Division Members:
It's official! It's time to prepare your submission(s) to the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, to be held August 7-11, 2020, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Please be sure to visit the Annual Meeting Website for all your submission needs. The submission portal can be accessed here. The deadline for all submissions is Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 5:00PM ET (New York time).
We at the HR Division already have a lot of wonderful events and activities planned, but we need your help to make our program even better. We are seeking submissions for paper and symposia sessions, as well as professional development workshops (PDWs). Below, please see our specific calls. While it's too early to sign up as a reviewer, please check back here in early December. We can't wait to see you in Vancouver!
PAPER AND SYMPOSIA SUBMISSIONS
In the HR Division, we are dedicated to understanding, identifying, and improving the effectiveness of HR practices to facilitate organizational competitiveness nationally or internationally, encourage individual growth and development, and enhance individual performance, work-related attitudes, and well-being. To that end, we encourage submissions that tap into these and related issues of interest to both HR scholars and practitioners. We also encourage both empirical and theoretical submissions that are consistent with the Division's on-going interest in research that bridges the science/practice gap, with a particular focus on the conference theme "20/20: Broadening our Sight." Please also see our call for submissions for additional information and suggestions.
For general information about scholarly paper and symposium submissions, please click here. You can also see more detail about submission guidelines by clicking the following links for scholarly papers or for symposia.
Finally, please note that in addition to the best convention paper and best student convention paper awards, we are launching two additional awards focused on research at the intersection of HR and entrepreneurship (best convention paper and best student convention paper). We are grateful for the support of the Kauffman Foundation for sponsoring these additional awards. More information about all of the HR Division awards can be found here. If you have any questions, please contact the HR Division Program Chair, David Collings, at collings.aom@gmail.com.
PDW SUBMISSIONS
The PDW format is highly flexible and provides opportunities to experiment with new models and ideas that do not fit within the confines of the regular program. The HR Division encourages the submission of creative ideas for interactive sessions that actively engage participants in learning new information, acquiring new skills and techniques, or addressing pressing issues or questions.
Sessions on linking HR research and practice, international HR, teaching, and facilitating Division member professional development are especially encouraged, given the expressed interests of our membership. We also encourage you to work with colleagues both within and outside of the HR Division in developing and submitting proposals for PDW sessions. Finally, please also consider (but do not feel bound by) the 2020 conference theme, "20/20: Broadening our Sight."
For more information, visit the 2020 Academy of Management HR Division Call for PDW Submissions. We also encourage you to examine the PDW Submission Guidelines. For questions or workshop suggestions, please contact the HR Division PDW Chair, Jill Ellingson, at hrdivision@ku.edu.
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Joel Koopman
Texas A&M University
College Station TX
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