Dear MED Colleague,
I hope that you are well. Like many of you, I had the chance to attend last year's academy meeting in San Antonio and I was delighted by the rich and stimulating program our division put together. As the MED Leadership Team, we have every intention to make this year's MED program as good and exciting. I want you to be part of the 2012 MED annual program and I wanted to remind you that the Academy on-line system has been opened for submissions of papers and symposia. While the deadline is January 10th, I invite you to submit your paper or symposia as early as possible. Please see below the full call, which also includes information on MED awards. Feel free to contact me directly with any questions or suggestions. I am looking forward to your submission!
Management Education and Development
Program Chair: Jacob Eisenberg, University College Dublin (UCD), medaom@ucd.ie
Specific Domain: The Management Education and Development Division (MED) supports theory development and research in management education (academic) and leadership/management development (non-credit instruction). We also support the practice of management education and development by fostering the skill development of our membership through providing workshops in improving effective teaching, learning, and participation and engagement strategies. Major areas of focus include: theoretical advances or empirical evidence about effective and innovative instructional methods or technology; applications of learning theories; and evaluation of studies of the effectiveness of management education and development techniques. Research and benchmark practices in coaching, outcome assessment, learning styles, on-line learning across cultures and environments are of interest as the division serves its membership, the Academy as a whole and the society at large. MED invites papers and symposia, featuring both theoretical and empirical studies, focused on our Major Topics as well as on the Conference Theme:
Major Topics and Thematic Priorities:
- Scholarship on Teaching/Learning - encourages an agenda of inquiry related to teaching/learning and asking questions that create knowledge to advance the practice of management education
· Management Education and Development – research on innovative teaching approaches, experiential learning and simulations, service learning, lifelong, training, ethics, coaching, cross cultural and global issues, humanistic/aesthetic approaches, project-based learning and online learning
- Effective Teaching – studies on effective teaching, both on the individual level as well as on the departmental and program levels
- Learning Assessments –approaches and issues/concerns related to the assessment of student learning such as assessment systems, portfolio assessment, and faculty engagement.
- Learning Styles – examines students' learning styles and how they affect learners' ability to process and comprehend various presentation modalities of management education
· Knowledge Management – creation, dissemination, and assessment
· Teaching and learning Technologies – value added, innovations and evaluation
Conference Theme: "The Informal Economy":
What are the research questions we should be asking to improve and inform management education and management development in this cutting-edge area? For example:
· What are some ways to teach students core aspects related to informal economy, using both traditional and innovative methods?
· Teaching on informal economy in the context of considering broader stakeholder interests, convergent values and the mingling of ethical values, economy and political forces.
· What types of management development programs and training approaches could be effective for those involved in leading and managing informal economic enterprises?
· What are the mechanisms for knowledge transfer in informal economic organizations and what can and do organizations in informal and formal economies learn from each other?
MED Division Conference Awards:
Eight recognition awards will be given to submissions that are selected from papers and symposia proposals submitted to the MED Division for the 2012 AOM program. NOTE: To be eligible for the awards the SUBMISSION COVER PAGE must include: a.) Award(s) for which the submission is to be considered AND b.) A statement that all authors meet the criteria for the award, where applicable.
The MED Awards are:
- Global Forum Best Paper sponsored by Manchester Business School for the paper that best creates the opportunity to address global issues of significance to management education and/or development
- Best Paper in Management Education sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell for the paper that offers the most significant contribution to management education
- Best Paper in Graduate Management Education sponsored by Graduate Management Admission Council for the most significant contribution to graduate management education
- Best Paper in Management Development sponsored by Emerald/Journal of Management Development for the paper that offers the most significant contribution to management development.
- Global Forum Best Symposium sponsored by Manchester Business School for the symposium that best creates the opportunity to address global issues of significance to management education and/or development.
- Best Symposium in Management Education and Development Award sponsored by McGraw Hill/Irwin for the symposium that offers the most significant contribution to advance management education and development.
- SAGE/Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies Junior Faculty Best Paper Award for the most significant contribution that advances leadership and organizational studies in a paper authored by faculty members who earned their PhD within the past nine years, that is, have graduated in 2003 or later. (NOTE: ALL authors must satisfy the above condition).
- Barry Armandi Award for Best Student Paper in Management Education and Development for a student/s authored paper that offers the most significant contribution to advance management education and development. (NOTE: ALL paper authors must be students).
Other MED Awards: In addition, MED provides Outstanding Reviewer Awards to authors of well-crafted reviews of MED conference papers and symposium. All award winners are recognized at the Annual MED Business Meeting.
Equipment/Supplies: Paper and symposium submitters should adhere to the AOM standard equipment/supplies that are provided for presenters. Special requests for equipment/supplies cannot be covered by the Division and have to be borne by the presenters.
Submission Instructions: Please follow the AOM 2021 general submission guidelines. All submissions are due on January 10, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. EST - this is an absolute deadline.
Warm wishes,
Jacob
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Jacob Eisenberg, Ph.D.
2012 Annual Program Chair, MED Division, Academy of Management
Tel: +353-1-716 4774
Fax: +353-1-716 4762
Email: medaom@ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/management/staffresearch/jacobeisenberg/
http://division.aomonline.org/med/