Dear friends,
I would like to recruit you in a grassroots campaign to disseminate/post the following announcement of the "MSR Most Promising Dissertations Awards" deadline extension and application details. This is what I would like you to do:
(1) Forward this message/attachment to the Director of Student Financial Aid Offices at the major doctoral granting institutions in your respective state/country,
(2) Forward this message/attachment to the Dean of the School of Business and/or related departments such as Organizational Studies; Management; Leadership, etc.
(3) Forward this message/attachment to any Dean of a school and/or program with an inclusion of religion/spirituality since most of these endeavors will more than likely have meaningful spillover into management activies (ie. Human Services; Social Work; Management of Non-Pofits; Administration of Student Affairs, etc.)
(4) Forward this message/attachment to any colleague/student who shares a similar or related interest in aspects of the MSR domain.
Thank you ever so much.
David
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ANNOUNCING MSR
“MOST PROMISING DISSERTATION AWARDS”
DEADLINE EXTENSION UNTIL MAY 15TH
Management, Spirituality and Religion (MSR) announces the availability of up to three Most Promising Dissertation Awards available to doctoral candidates approaching completion of comprehensive exams, beginning the formulation of dissertation proposals, and/or conducting their actual doctoral research.
First Prize: $2000.00
Second Prize: $1000.00
Third Prize: $ 750.00
Applications for Most Promising Dissertation Awards must:
(1) include/integrate each of the three elements: management, spirituality and religion.
(2) develop implications for "action"; that is, will help clarify practical,
and concrete steps that managers within organizations can implement in
their daily management to strengthen spirituality and religion in a full
climate of freedom within the contemporary organization.
The above emphasis reflects the interests of J. Robert Ouimet who has graciously provided funding for the program.
Purpose:
MSR is a young and emergent domain for scholarship within the Academy of Management. Therefore, MSR seeks to encourage quality doctoral dissertations as a springboard to continuing contributory research. Most Promising Dissertation Awards will provide doctoral candidates with assistance by:
(1) Acknowledging the value of an intended dissertation design that has been competitively reviewed and nominated as promising by an international panel of scholars.
(2) Helping a doctoral candidate to establish contact with researchers within MSR who share an interest in the proposed area of study, and who can assist with further coaching as the proposal unfolds.
(3) Providing an opportunity (at the MSR Professional Development Workshop within the Annual Academy of Management Conference) to interact with a panel of scholars and other doctoral candidates to refine the theoretical and methodological foundations of a thesis proposal, and to explore action implications that can be highlighted in the research.
(4) Providing modest seed funds for travel and/or preliminary research in the refinement of the proposal.
Submission Requirements:
No more than four pages providing an overview ("executive summary") setting forth the topic of interest, its relevance to MSR, links to interesting theoretical concerns, preliminary methodological approaches, and connection to managerial actions.
We are not seeking "refined" proposals. The purpose of the Most Promising Dissertation Awards is to capture early ideation of promise, and subsequently to provide assistance in the refinement to assistant in quality scholarly efforts.
Expectations of Recipients:
(1) Attend the Awards Dinner and Reception for the MSR Doctoral Student Consortium on Friday evening of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management for Most Promising Dissertation Awards recipients the year the award is received.
(2) Provide a briefing on the dissertation conceptualization an MSR Professional Development Workshop (PDW) devoted to "emergent research" within the MSR program the year the award is received.
(3) Submit a paper proposal reporting on the completed research to MSR when
the thesis is concluded.
Submission Deadline:
An electronic copy of the four page proposal must be sent to Jody Fry, by May 15, 2007.
fry@tarleton.edu.
Notification of awards granted with be made June 15, 2007 in order to allow recipients to make their travel plans to attend the Academy of Management in Philadelphia For information on the conference, go to
http://meetings.aomonline.org/2007/
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David C. Trott Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Resource Development
St. Edward's University
Austin, TX 78749
Tel. (512) 448-8736
Fax (512) 448-8767