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AOM PDW - Doctoral Programs in Management: Educating Responsibly for Healthy Academic Careers

  • 1.  AOM PDW - Doctoral Programs in Management: Educating Responsibly for Healthy Academic Careers

    Posted 06-10-2018 15:29

     

    If you are a doctoral program director, a faculty member who works closely with doctoral students, or someone who hires early career academics,

    we wish to draw your attention to this PDW opportunity at the upcoming Academy of Management Meeting. Please note that

    pre-registration (no fee) is requested.

     

    Program Session: 289 | Submission: 10547 | Sponsor(s): (MED, HR, GDO, TTC)

    Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 11 2018 10:00AM - 11:30AM at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Gold Coast

     

    Doctoral Programs in Management:

    Educating Responsibly for Healthy Academic Careers

    PhD Programs & Academic Career

     

     

     

    Presenter: Jean M. Forray, Western New England U.

    Presenter: Danna Greenberg, Babson College

    Discussant: Timothy Baldwin, Indiana U., Bloomington

    Discussant: Anne S. Huff, Dublin City U.

    Discussant: Denise M. Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon U.

    Discussant: James P. Walsh, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

     

    This PDW engages multiple AOM stakeholders – PhD program administrators, doctoral program faculty, and those who hire

    early career academics – in a re-visioning of the purpose and design of management doctoral programs. While management

    education has changed drastically in the past two decades, doctoral education remains largely the same. Doctoral programs remain

    focused primarily on training graduate students to become research scholars and to pursue tenure-track positions at similarly

    prestigious research-focused institutions. Yet in today's competitive landscape of business education, doctoral students are more

    frequently finding they are unable or don't want to craft an academic career focused predominately on scholarship.

     

    This session will begin with discussion from a recent research study of how academics construct their career narratives from the time

    they consider entering a doctoral program through the doctoral program and into first full-time position. We then invite a group of

    expert doctoral advisors and program directors to share their perspective on the research and its relevance for doctoral programs.

    The majority of our time together will be spent in small group discussions as we consider what this research means for doctoral education

    from the perspective of administrator, faculty, and hiring institution. Through these discussions we hope to consider how to build a more

    inclusive path to academia that values diverse career models.

     

    Pre-registration is requested.