Dear Careers Division Members and Friends,
A successful Annual AOM Meeting lies behind us, and the preparations for the next exciting conference are in full swing. As usual, we want the Careers Division program to excel in terms of quality and audacity, and want it to be a valuable source of inspiration for your own research and teaching. This ambition, however, can only be achieved with YOUR help. YOU can make a real difference and contribute to the continued success of our lovely Careers division by doing two things:
1/ Submit your papers and symposia proposals. Submissions may reflect any topic that fits within the careers domain and extends our understanding of careers. In addition, we encourage contributions that relate to the theme for the 2016 meeting, "Making Organizations Meaningful". Meaningfulness is a topic that traditionally has been, and undoubtedly will continue to be, high on the agenda of career scholars. There are many questions on meaningfulness that are yet to be fully answered: What do employees do to make their careers more personally meaningful? How can organizations create meaningful career paths for their employees? Which are sources of meaningful work and how do these sources differ across generations, cultures and industries? Which employees are more likely to develop a sense of calling? To what extent are employees with a calling more effective in their contributions than those without? How do employees maintain their career identity after job loss? To what extent is one's sense of meaningfulness influenced by changes in parental/family status? How do people develop new meaning after retirement? Does having a meaningful career facilitate or hinder psychological adjustment to retirement?
So, mark your calendars as you prepare your paper and symposium submissions for the 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Anaheim, California, held August 5-9, 2016: the submission system opens November 10 and is available until January 12, 2016: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/callforsubmissions/
2/ Sign up to review for the Careers division. Equally important is to have people willing to serve as a reviewer. Regardless which career stage you are at (beginning PhD candidate or seasoned faculty), your input is highly valued and NEEDED. So, please do sign up to review for our division. The reviewer system is up and running, waiting for you: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/review/. THANK you!!
Looking forward to your submissions, to your reviews, and to seeing you in August 2016!
Bert Schreurs
Program Chair, CAREERS division, Academy of Management
Associate Professor
School of Business and Economics | Maastricht University
Tongersestraat 53 | 6211 LM Maastricht | The Netherlands
T +31 43 38 83776 | E-mail: b.schreurs@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Web: www.bert-schreurs.com