Our amazing PDW Chair, Pauline Schilpzand, is coordinating with AOM HQ and other PDW organizers to see which other PDWs can be offered virtually.
Paper Sessions and Symposia
AOM Leadership has also suggested that at least 10% of traditional paper sessions and symposia will be held synchronously or “live.” Most sessions will, however, be asynchronous. That is, you will be asked to pre-record 5-minute videos or upload your presentation slides and paper. These materials will be made available for online interaction, for example, via some kind of online discussion forum, for the entire duration of the conference.
Naomi Rothman (our incredible Program
Chair) will be leading this effort. In case you need to present live for any reason (funding, job market, etc.), please let us know by June 8, 2020. While we cannot make any promises, we will do our best to accommodate your request.
Social Event
We will continue to offer our social event, MOC Connecting, this year. This is an informal event in which you will have the opportunity to connect with established scholars and discuss
various topics in micro, meso, and macro MOC-related areas. To enable the richest connections possible, pre-registration is required. More information will be shared soon.
Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony
We will not be holding our Distinguished Scholar presentation, awards ceremony, or Business Meeting this year. We will be announcing the nominees and award recipients in the coming weeks, but we want to honor them in person in 2021.
Volunteers Needed!
We do need volunteers to be “Digital Chairs” for both live and asynchronous sessions. These volunteers will help guide and encourage our members during the session. If you wish to volunteer,
please let us know.
For our student members
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In case your
university has revised your conference funding due to COVID-19, we can fully cover your conference registration fee. Please reach out to us by July 20, 2020. Preference will be given to members of the division and to those who are accepted to PDWs that require pre-registration (that is, Cognition in the Rough, Diamonds in the Rough, and Presenting in the Rough).
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We also know that many of you will be reaching the final stages of your program and are about to start the job market season soon. Given these uncertain and tiring times, we would like to support your search process by introducing those of you who are on the job market to our membership. We will do so by including your information on our website and potentially sharing it with our members via a newsletter. If you are interested in participating in this initiative, please send us a brief bio, your pic, contact information, and link to your website/LinkedIn profile by July 20, 2020.
This is it for now. As things evolve, you’ll hear from us. If there is anything we can do to help, you can always reach out to us.
Finally, in case you missed the first webinar in our virtual series “MOC thinking about…” in which our esteemed panelists (Sue Ashford, Jane Dutton, Sally Maitlis, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Laura Morgan Roberts, Dean Shepherd, and Kathleen M Sutcliffe) provided some great ideas and recommendations for coping and being resilient during the pandemic, you
can watch it as well as access the relevant materials on our website.
Our second virtual panel on “Race, Justice, and Equity in the Workplace and Beyond: A Call to Action,” which will be held on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, from 10-11:30 a.m. ET. More information will be shared soon.
Stay well.
Warmly,
Abhijeet
Chair, MOC Division
Academy of Management
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