Diamonds in the Rough
Managerial and Organizational Cognition
Abstract
Are you a doctoral student or junior faculty member studying issues related to cognition? If so, the MOC division has just created a brand new consortium with you in mind! The Diamonds in the Rough (DIR) consortium provides an excellent opportunity to hear about the paths that senior faculty have taken in studying cognition, receive personalized feedback about managing your own research stream, and build connections with other emerging as well as seasoned scholars studying cognition in organizations.
You will be treated to stories about how leading scholars forged their own professional identities as well as perspectives on how a variety of different methodologies can be brought to bear on the study of cognition. With these talks to stimulate discussion, you will get plenty of personalized feedback from a leading scholar and a couple of other participants about your own research portfolio and ways in which you might utilize additional methodologies to advance it. Furthermore, the afternoon will begin and end with opportunities to meet many other cognition scholars. It will begin with a shared lunch with our sister PDW, Cognition in the Rough. It will culminate with the popular MOC social event, "Think About It."
Pre-registration is required as this consortium has limited space. We ask that you provide a vita along with a summary of your research interests in managerial and organizational cognition (see overview for details). We have lined up an excellent array of facilitators and will seek to pair attendees in complementary areas where possible.
Overview
DIR strives to meet greater demand for professional development in our division among both doctoral students and junior faculty. It is a bold effort to capitalize on the special opportunities afforded by a relatively small division. While large divisions typically offer general stage-based career content to an audience with widely-ranging interests, DIR aims to provide MOC interest-based content to an audience of emerging scholars who are at slightly different stages. The anticipated result is MOC-tailored content with a unique opportunity to build intra-divisional mentoring and advice networks. Toward this same end, DIR will draw upon the energy, expertise, and generosity of MOC's remarkable seasoned faculty for its facilitators/speakers.
The program will run from 11:30 – 4:30 on Saturday. It will begin with a shared luncheon with our sister PDW, Cognition in the Rough (CIR), with lunch table assignments assuring that DIR and CIR participants have the opportunity to interact with one another. After lunch, DIR roundtables will provide a forum for personalized feedback with a ratio of one facilitator per every three participants. The afternoon will be divided between two general topics: forging a research identity and methods for studying cognition. Each topic will be further divided between brief facilitator presentations, providing food for thought and insight for discussion, as well as personalized feedback to each participant. After the roundtables, participants will be encouraged to further their connection-building at MOC's "Think About It" event, which follows right after.
Facilitators include:
Caroline Bartel (University of Texas)
Henrik Bresman (INSEAD)
Prithviraj (Raja) Chattopadhyay (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology)
Theresa Cho (Seoul National Univ.)
Spencer Harrison (Boston College)
Bob Lord (University of Akron)
Sally Maitlis (University of British Columbia)
Mike Pfarrer (University of Georgia)
Kevin Rockman (George Mason University)
Wendy Smith (University of Delaware)
Scott Sonnenschein (Rice University)
Anita Woolley (Carnegie Mellon University)
| DIR organizers are: Frances Fabian (The Univ. of Memphis) Jennifer Petriglieri (INSEAD) |
Important Information for Applications:
Applications due: May 16, 2014
Send application requests to: ffabian@memphis.edu. You should receive an acknowledgement of your request within 48 hours. Please include:
Current vita
An overview of your research stream or streams, outlining major topics and different methodologies that you have used or plan to use. Please limit this to no more than 3 pages, double-spaced.
Two questions about professional development. We want this workshop to address pressing issues for its participants, and will look for patterns in participants' concerns or needs at this point in their career. To this end, please draft two questions you would most like to hear addressed by senior scholars.
The names of six or more facilitators with whom you would like to be matched. Please note that we cannot guarantee that you will matched with these facilitators, but we will do our best.
Acceptance notices will be sent out after June 15, 2016.
You may apply to both DIR, which focuses on the development of the scholar, and to CIR, which focuses on the development of a particular paper.