CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2010 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

As a primarily volunteer organization, it is necessary and important to provide opportunities for members to gain recognition for their outstanding contributions to the Academy and the field of Management.  Recognizing our deserving colleagues is an important way for us to appreciate their career achievements and set the bar for our younger colleagues.

The AOM Career Achievement Awards Committee is currently accepting nominations for the following awards, and we are counting on you to help us identify potential honorees.  We invite you to review the criteria for each award, and nominate a worthy colleague in each category.  All nominations should be submitted by April 15, 2010 to the Committee Chair:

Sara L. Rynes, Career Achievement Awards Chair
University Of Iowa
Tippie Col. of Bus. CBA-108PBB
100 West Jefferson Street
Iowa City, IA  52242-1000
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Distinguished Educator Award

Criteria for this all-Academy award include excellence in one or more of the following:

1.    Developing doctoral students
2.    Effective teaching in the classroom and/or other forums
3.    Pedagogical innovations such as the development and dissemination of new and effective teaching methods and designs.

Anyone who meets these criteria is eligible for the award; Academy membership is not a requirement. 

•    To nominate someone for the Distinguished Educator Award, send a letter [no more than two pages] to the Chair of the Career Achievement Awards Committee that specifically describes the person’s accomplishments in relation to the award criteria along with a copy of the nominee’s resume. 
•    We encourage up to three [no more than three] letters of support for inclusion in the nomination package.  The Committee may subsequently request additional information from the nominator and/or nominee.
•    The recipient will be recognized at the Academy’s 2010 meeting, and is expected to accept the award in person.
•    Nominations must be submitted electronically and received by the Chair of the Award Committee no later than April 15, 2010. 

Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner

Criteria for this all-Academy award include excellence in one or more of the following:

1.    Successful application of theory or research in practice and/or contributed to knowledge through extraction of learning from practice
2.    Authored scholarly works which have substantively affected the practice of management
3.    Integration of research and practice.
4.    Their work will be respected by peers (both practitioner and academic). 

Nominees for this award may be or have been executives, authors, academics, or consultants, but the emphasis in this award is on the practitioner-scholar whose sense of inquiry and pursuit of knowledge have risen above just using practice-based learning to influence theory and research-based theory to influence practice.  

•    To nominate someone for the Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award, send a letter [no more than two pages] to the Chair of the Career Achievement Awards Committee that specifically describes the person’s accomplishments in relation to the award criteria along with a copy of the nominee’s resume. 
•    We encourage up to three [no more than three] letters of support for inclusion in the nomination package.  The Committee may subsequently request additional information from the nominator and/or nominee.
•    The recipient will be recognized at the Academy’s 2010 meeting, and is expected to accept the award in person.
•    Nominations must be submitted electronically and received by the Chair of the Award Committee no later than April 15, 2010.

Scholarly Contributions to Management Award

This award is granted on an annual basis for significant scholarly contributions that have advanced management and organizational knowledge and practice.  Such contributions are defined to include the creation and dissemination of new knowledge in the form of empirical or theoretical developments.  Significant scholarly contributions may take the form of conceptual, theoretical, or empirical developments having significant impact upon management knowledge and practice. 

Anyone who meets these criteria is eligible for the award; Academy membership is not a requirement.

•    To nominate someone for the Scholarly Contributions Award, send a letter [no more than two pages] to the Chair of the Career Achievement Awards Committee that specifically describes the person’s accomplishments in relation to the award criteria along with a copy of the nominee’s resume. 
•    We encourage up to three [no more than three] letters of support for inclusion in the nomination package.  The Committee may subsequently request additional information from the nominator and/or nominee.
•    The recipient will be recognized at the Academy’s 2010 meeting, and is expected to accept the award in person.
•    Nominations must be submitted electronically and received by the Chair of the Award Committee no later than April 15, 2010.

Distinguished Service Award

Criteria for this all-Academy award include excellence in one or more of the following:

1.    Developing and/or enhancing a field of study
2.    Founding or creatively editing a journal
3.    Building institutions, for example through creative or unusually effective service to a major professional organization. 

Anyone who meets these criteria is eligible for the award; Academy membership is not a requirement. 

•    To nominate someone for the Distinguished Service Award, send a letter [no more than two pages] to the Chair of the Career Achievement Awards Committee that specifically describes the person’s accomplishments in relation to the award criteria along with a copy of the nominee’s resume. 
•    We encourage up to three [no more than three] letters of support for inclusion in the nomination package.  The Committee may subsequently request additional information from the nominator and/or nominee.
•    The recipient will be recognized at the Academy’s 2010 meeting, and is expected to accept the award in person.
•    Nominations must be submitted electronically and received by the Chair of the Award Committee no later than April 15, 2010.