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Hi Colleagues
The 2013 Conflict Management Division Scholarly Program and Professional Development Workshops include a number of interesting and innovative sessions. A couple of these sessions are highlighted here. Our excellent program has broad appeal to CM division members as well as the Academy at large. We invite you to peruse the program and begin thinking about what sessions you would like to attend at: (http://program.aomonline.org/2013/subMenu.asp?mode=setmenu&menuid=14) We have several provocative symposiums and more than a dozen paper sessions that will present ideas and new knowledge worthy of your time and discussion. You will find many panels that will be of interest to you. Be sure to thoroughly check out our program!
New to the conference this year are Plenary Sessions tied to the Conference theme "Capitalism in Question". Each division has 90 minutes allotted during the scholarly program for a Plenary Session which can take the form of a debate, a special speaker, or other innovative form. For our inaugural Plenary Session the Conflict Management Division will host a debate:
Is Organizational Justice the New Industrial Relations? A debate on Individual vs Collective Underpinnings of Justice
Scheduled on Monday, August 12, 2013 from 11:30am-1:00pm at WDW Dolphin Resort in Salon 3
Presenters: Stephen Gilliland Raymond L. Hogler
Associate Dean, Executive Education Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Labor Law, 2007
Executive Director, Center for Leadership Ethics University of Tuscia (Viberbo, Italy)
Department Head and Arnold Lesk Chair in Leadership Department of Management
Department of Management and Organizations Colorado State University
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
This debate will tie the conference theme "Capitalism in Question" to the implementation of justice processes in firms. People like John D. Rockefeller Jr. – who has been called one of the founders of Industrial Relations – created systems of representation and grievance handling that allowed workers to act together. It was not a union relation, but it foreshadowed the advent of widespread collective bargaining in the workplace. For about three decades from 1950 on, union relations served to establish good wages, secure jobs, and cooperative relations with employers. As this began to break down in the 1980s, unions went into a severe decline and traditional bargaining gave way to individual employment relationships. New intellectual disciplines took over the study of work and workers, primarily economics and psychology. The focus was on quantitative methodology and individual behaviors. The question for this debate is whether the old system still has any useful lessons for understanding employment relations, or whether the new mode of analyzing justice and voice in the workplace is adequate, or even superior.
People like Rockefeller (and many, many other employers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) tried to implement justice processes in their firms aiming to cover all dimensions of workplace behavior from an employer/worker standpoint, and we will examine their ideas against contemporary views of justice and voice in the workplace.
The debate will include time for questions and interaction with the audience so we would love it if you would attend and be thinking about questions you might ask at the Plenary Session. I've asked both of our debate panelists for some preliminary points for discussion and it looks like we will have a good set of arguments for this lively session. Please consider attending our Plenary Session.
CM Division Professional Development Workshops
Mara Olekalns, PDW Chair and her team have put together a great collection of Professional Development Workshops. Among them is the Junior Faculty Research Incubator "Research in the Fast Lane: Strategies for Enhancing Research Productivity" on Saturday, August 10, 2013 from 9:00am-4:00pm. This PDW is aimed at junior faculty who have completed their doctoral studies in the last five years and have at least one year's experience in a faculty position. At this day long workshop, experienced faculty will give share their strategies for undertaking impactful research, work with participants to develop research collaborations, and will also provide a unique opportunity for participants to gain feedback on their own scholarly work. The workshop will end with a panel discussion in which presenters offer their tips for becoming highly effective researchers: they will discuss their work habits and how they go about their work (e.g., time allocation, co-authorships, writing blocks, and strategies) as well as other "life" factors that influence their productivity.
In the afternoon session, panelists will give junior faculty feedback on a current research project. For this session, please submit a 6 – 10 double-spaced page research proposal that includes: a brief abstract, an overview of the research (key research question, theoretical framework, proposed methodology), and the specific issues you would like to discuss with panelists.
Preapproval of your proposal is required for registration. Please send research proposals to Mara Olekalns (mara.olekalns@gmail.com) by Friday, 14th June. Once your proposal is approved, we will send the registration code and further information about the registration process. Please note that to ensure a constructive experience, participant numbers for this PDW are limited. Preference will be given to early submissions. Please direct any questions about this PDW to Mara Olekalns (mara.olekalns@gmail.com). We have an outstanding group of panelists participating in this PDW: Gerben Van Kleef, Matt Cronin, Jana Raver, Katerina Bezrukova, Peter Kim, Jen Overbeck, and Laurie Weingart.
Please take a closer look at the conference program to learn more about all of our PDWs: http://program.aomonline.org/2013/subMenu.asp?mode=setmenu&menuid=14 that Mara, and Reps-at-Large Francesca Gino and Robert Lount have put together for our conference this year.
The CM Division Business Meeting
We also invite you to attend the CM Division Business Meeting to be held at the WDW Dolphin Resort, Oceanic 7 on Sunday, August 11, 2013 from 5:00pm-6:00pm. At the meeting we will be announcing and presenting our Division's 4 conference best paper awards and the Most Influential Article award, in addition to talking about our divisions Professional Development Workshops and Scholarly Program.
The CM Division Social
Following the CM Division Business Meeting is the Division's Social to be held at the WDW Dolphin Resort, Oceanic 3 on Sunday, August 11, 2012 from 6:00pm-8:00pm. We invite you to stop by sometime during the social perhaps before or after your Sunday dinner plans and join us for a beverage, to catch up with colleagues and to thank you for serving as a reviewer for this year's program. The Executive Committee Barry Goldman, Zoe Barsness, Bill Bottom, Mara Olekalns, Reps-at-Large Lindy Greer, David Lewin, Robert Lount, Francesca Gino and I look forward to seeing you there and thanking you for your contribution and support for our division.
In the meantime, enjoy your summer and see you in Orlando!
Thank you
Michael Gross
2013 Scholarly Program Chair
Conflict Management Division
Michael A. Gross, Ph.D.
2013 Program Chair, Conflict Management Division, Academy of Management
Associate Professor of Management
College of Business
Rockwell Hall #219
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1275
Office: (970) 491-6368
FAX: (970) 491-3522
E-mail: Michael.Gross@business.colostate.edu
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