EGOS 2018 – Tallinn, Estonia
Sub-theme 50: Inclusive Organizations and Knowledge Workers’ Mobility
We would like to announce the sub-theme on Inclusive Organizations and Knowledge Workers’ Mobility that we convene with my colleagues from the Netherlands and Lithuania at the European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) in Tallinn. The conference takes place in Estonian capital on 5-7 July, 2018.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Understanding and Strengthening the Child- and Youth-Serving Workforce in Low-Resource Communities
A special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology
Guest Editors:
Elise Cappella, Erin Godfrey, & Anil Chacko
Achieving the intended outcomes of policies and programs to support children and youth in low-resource communities is largely driven by the quality of the staff and services. Yet there is growing recognition that many child- and youth-serving providers are under-prepared to achieve the goals of their work. Research on teachers and teaching is plentiful but less is known about individuals who work with youth in systems as varied as child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and mental health—individuals whose positions are often unstable, underpaid, and/or part-time. Rich and rigorous empirical, conceptual, and practice-oriented articles focused on the child- and youth-serving workforce are needed to better understand and advance workforce development and organizational interventions, and thereby achieve the goal of enhancing the lives of young people in low-resource communities.
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https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2017/nsf17128/nsf17128.jsp
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and its staff are deeply concerned for the people and institutions affected by Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath. Now that the consequences of Hurricane Harvey are upon us, new science and engineering questions are being raised. Through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), NSF encourages the submission of proposals that seek to address the challenges related to this storm. NSF also will support fundamental science and engineering research projects whose results may enable our country to better prepare for, respond to, recover from, or mitigate future catastrophic events. Research proposals relating to a better fundamental understanding of the impacts of the storm (physical, biological and societal), human aspects of natural disasters (including first responders and the general public), emergency response methods, and approaches that promise to reduce future damage also are welcome.
With NSF support, researchers have a long history of advancing understanding and knowledge about natural and built environments, as well as the relationship between humans and their environments in the context of large-scale disasters. Fundamental science and technological advancements are vital to our continued improvement of disaster preparation and restoration. For example, NSF-funded research has advanced understanding of the mechanisms that cause levee failures, gained new knowledge on the performance of critical infrastructure, and supported efforts to improve flood water decontamination. Researchers also have improved our ability to better predict, with longer lead times, the path of tropical cyclones. NSF support for researchers has led to the deployment of underwater rescue robots in an effort to safeguard emergency workers, developed real-time flood potential models, conducted effectiveness assessments of oil plume dispersants, assessed and advised better hazard-resistant buildings, and developed liquefaction mitigation methods in response to earthquakes. In addition, NSF-funded researchers have made ground-breaking discoveries about the long-term psychological and emotional impacts of national disasters.
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Business Horizons Call for Papers
Advancing Women in Business Organizations: New Insights and Practices
Conference and Special Issue
Guest Editors:
Carolyn Goerner, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Ellen Ernst Kossek, Krannert School of Management
Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, Purdue University
Overview:
In 2017, the Fortune 500 boasted the largest-ever percentage of female CEOs: 5.8%. Despite obtaining undergraduate and graduate degrees at higher rates than men, women continue to earn substantially less than their similarly situated male counterparts and are less likely to advance. The consensus among scholars and practitioners alike is that there is no “quick fix,” but instead a need for consistent, thoughtful research on women’s experiences in business that informs both theory and practice. Numerous theories have tried to explain the lack of women in the uppermost echelons of business, but to date no explanation has proved. Leaders, managers, and employers still have much to learn about how to advance women in business.
Business Horizons is calling for abstract proposals for papers to provide new insights addressing these persistent gaps and challenges related to advancing women in business. As a way to improve the quality of submissions, the editors encourage interested scholars to submit their abstract to the Leadership Excellence and Gender in Organizations Research to Practice Conference at Purdue University in March 2018 prior to the journal submission deadline to improve paper submissions.
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I would like to draw your attention to the 7th Latin American and European Meeting on Organizations Studies (LAEMOS 2018), which will be taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 22-24, 2018: “Organizing for Resilience: Scholarship in Unsettled Times”.
The deadline for submission of ABSTRACTS (up to 1000 words) is September 30, 2017!
To view the Call for Abstracts (and the sub-themes), please see at:
https://www.laemos2018.com/sub-themes
For any further questions on LAEMOS 2018, please contact: laemos2018@gmail.com.
McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management invites applications for multiple tenure-track positions in Organizational Behaviour starting August 2018. Successful candidates will sustain a cutting-edge, high quality research program and publish in top journals. They are also expected to work actively with doctoral students, and to teach in our undergraduate and graduate programs. We encourage applications from candidates at all levels. Salary is negotiable, according to qualifications and experience.
In addition to having a Ph.D. in a related discipline (e.g., organizational behaviour, management, strategy, international business, entrepreneurship, organizational theory), the ideal candidate will have a record of research publications in high quality, peer-reviewed journals, evidence of effective teaching, and clear promise of pursuing an interesting and innovative research agenda. Applicants possessing outstanding potential, both as a researcher and a teacher, who are recent doctoral graduates or who plan to have completed the requirements for their Ph.D. by December 2018 may be considered.
Whereas teaching is done in English, knowledge of French or a willingness to learn French is desirable.
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When researchers analyze race and organizations they primarily do so at the individual level. Sociological studies confirm that organizations produce inequality or systematic disparities between racial groups. In particular, all else being equal, Whites have far better experiences and outcomes with the organizations – firms, schools, hospitals, etc. – that we have come to depend upon for our livelihood than racial minorities.
Though necessary, focusing on the individual level has its limitations.By confining race to an individual level property, we highlight the reality that people have a race and this influences their organizational experiences. Yet, this is just one of the many ways that race intersects with organizations. If we situate race as a property that operates at other, higher levels of analyses we can develop an even deeper understanding of how race affects organizations.
There have been few efforts to conceive of race as a characteristic that organizations also possess or at the very least a characteristic that exists at the institutional level with which organizations must contend. In the United States especially, this belies our history. Homer Plessy and Rosa Parks both chose organizations – the East Louisiana Railroad and the Montgomery Bus Line respectively – as sites to challenge racial practices. In both instances, defying an organizational rule reshaped the discourse and laws pertaining to race, regionally first, then nationally.
A ruling against Homer Plessy’s constitutional right to sit in the “Whites Only” car had far reaching consequences, most of which were enacted through organizations. This ruling racially marked organizations and organizational practices as “Black” or “White”, essentially “racing” organizations. Despite the undoing of legally sanctioned racial segregation, we continue to use such demarcations to classify organizations – Black colleges (e.g., Howard University, Hampton University) or Black media companies (e.g., Ebony, The Root).
Sociology is ill equipped to explain how a person’s quest to sit wherever they choose could have such far-reaching consequences in part because there has been little effort to build bridges between those studying the problems of race and those studying the problems of organizing. Consequently, we cannot adequately speak to how race affects organizations, markets, or institutions with the same confidence that we can for people.
The mini-conference would bring together scholars to interrogate the relationship between race and the organizing process for the founding of organizations, the organizational pursuit of human, financial, or political resources, organizational choices regarding strategic orientation and structural configurations, and the role of institutional logics that saturate organizations, industries, and markets with racialized ideologies, among other topics.
The Department of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University, invites applications for a tenure track position at the assistant professor level beginning Fall 2018. Fields of specialization are open, but preference will be for candidates with primary research and teaching interests in the areas of social inequality, broadly defined, who employ quantitative or comparative-historical approaches. Teaching responsibilities include Research Methods and an advanced research-intensive seminar. We are especially interested in prospective colleagues who will expand the department’s research and teaching profile and who will promote the College’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Call for Papers to be published in Research in the Sociology of Work
Editors:
Anne Kovalainen, University of Turku
Steven Vallas, Northeastern University
In recent years, digital technologies have enveloped virtually all forms of economic activity. Smart phones have carried the demand for labor into almost everyone’s pocket or purse. The platform economy has remade the structural contexts in which transport work, cleaning, and casual work as a whole are performed. Careers are now established or maintained (or derailed) via LinkedIn. And the job search process has rendered the paper resume a quaint relic from the past. All this signals a profound transformation in the very underpinnings of economic life. Yet sociological studies of work and technology in the digital age have seemed to lag far behind these accelerating trends. How has the digital revolution begun to blur the distinction between work and non-work? Why have high tech jobs remained such a heavily gendered and racialized terrain? What is the nature of the jobs that digital technology now demands, variously termed “immaterial labor” and “cognitive capitalism”? How much of the labor force is likely to be engulfed by the “gig economy” –and how might this sector be shaped to suit human needs? To pose these questions is to declare that systematic, critical research on digital work and labor is sorely needed, especially in an era when AI, robotization, and automatic guided vehicles are waiting in the wings.
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EASTERN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (ESS)
ANNUAL MEETING
BALTIMORE, MD
This paper session, titled “Gender and Work,” invites theoretical and/or empirical research that explores gender gaps in work outcomes and/or gender inequality in the workplace. We are mainly interested in papers exploring the centrality of work to the reproduction of gendered inequalities. Papers that draw on a variety of theoretical perspectives and workplace contexts to explore these themes are especially welcome. Likewise, we welcome papers with policy implications on how to improve the workplace environment from a gender perspective, and its influences on other non-work domains (such as family).
Please send your abstracts (not more than 250 words) to session organizer Deniz Yucel, yuceld@wpunj.edu NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 12, 2017.
Organizations, Occupations and Work 