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From: Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division Listserv [mailto:GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU]On Behalf Of Bell, Myrtle P
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:47 AM
To: GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Equal Opportunities International Call for Submissions

Hello GDO Members:

 

Equal Opportunities International, with a new editor and editorial team, is committed to becoming a home for excellent research papers on equality, diversity, and inclusion and the journal of choice for scholars in the field.  The EOI editor, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Finola Kerrigan (Book Reviews editor), the editorial board, and I (Professional Insights editor) are focusing on scholarly rigor, increased citations, and improved status of the journal. Its new publisher, Emerald, is committed to supporting the GDO division as well.  Please see the link below for information on the journal, its new editorial board (including scholars from 21 countries), and its goals:

 

 https://ozbilgin.sslpowered.com/calls/Equal%20Opportunities%20International.pdf

 

If you have problems opening the link, cut and paste it to your browser.

 

We hope you will consider submitting your best gender and diversity work to EOI and look forward to receiving your submissions. Please forward this information about EOI to other lists and organizations whose members may be interested.  If you have questions about EOI or a submission, rather than replying to the GDO list, please contact the editor directly at m.ozbilgin@qmul.ac.uk or me at mpbell@uta.edu. 

 

Best regards,

Myrtle

 

Myrtle P. Bell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

University of Texas at Arlington

Box 19467

Arlington TX 76019-0467

Ph:  817 272-3857

http://management.uta.edu/Dr.Bell/main.htm

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From: Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division Listserv [mailto:GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU]On Behalf Of LFORCE719@AOL.COM
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 8:34 AM
To: GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: email surveys

Dear Dr. Romaine,

I ran across a company called something like ZOOMERANG in Menlo Park or thereabouts in California...you can probably find them on Google.  The company specialized in doing surverys for academics and others.

I'm a doctoral student at NOVA Southeastern University, W. Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, and am at the beginning stages of writing my dissertation but did some research with the past 2 years on surveys (I have to do one for for about 3,000 engineers). The problem I've run into is two-fold and for me, a bit discouraging, but I'll share with you since you asked for pitfalls (although I recognize that you may have thought of these already).

1. People don't like to respond to surveys if they don't know the person sending it AND worry about how the information they relate will be used.

2. I had called Zoomerang and they seemed reliable (and one of my former classmates recommended the company (but can't recall how much they charge).

3. I will be purchasing mailing list from some of the professional engineering associations...(a) the associations don't give out email addresses....(b) some associations are even getting skittish about even selling mailing lists nowadays with all the scams. My university tells me that I must show proof of where I got my mailing lists....I guess this rule has to do with ensuring integrity of the process, and the School doesn't want to impair its accreditation.  Interestingly, even though I belong to many engineering associations, I can't just use the membership directories from these groups....have to buy the mailing lists.

Sincerely,

Linda Force

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From: Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division Listserv [mailto:GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU]On Behalf Of Berkley, Robyn
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:49 PM
To: GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: email surveys

Zoomerang charges about $300 for a year's subscription, enabling you to have use of their software and website.  If you want to use their members to sample, they charge another fee on top of that to send a request out to their members who respond to surveys based on interest area and an incentive system.  I plan on using Zoomerang as part of my sampling plan for a study I'm doing on email sexual harassment so I'll be happy to share once I learn more about the results.  I had a doctoral student do some pre-testing of instruments on Zoomerang with success.

 

My doctoral student used an on-line survey for her diss and one thing she found is that she couldn't control who had access to the web address.  E.g. she offered a $50 prize if people responded...she recruited people in <st1:state w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state>, and NY (based on a company she was using and geographic availability).  One prize winner lived in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:place></st1:state>!!!  How in the heck did they learn about the survey???  So you don't have control over that sort of thing.  If certain demographics are important to you, that may be an issue...but if it doesn't matter where they are from, I think it might be a non-issue.

 

Robyn

 

Robyn A. Berkley, Ph.D.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">110 8th Street</st1:address></st1:street>

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(518) 276-2342

 

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From: Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division Listserv [mailto:GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of LFORCE719@AOL.COM
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 8:34 AM
To: GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: email surveys

 

Dear Dr. Romaine,

I ran across a company called something like ZOOMERANG in <st1:city w:st="on">Menlo Park</st1:city> or thereabouts in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>...you can probably find them on Google.  The company specialized in doing surverys for academics and others.

I'm a doctoral student at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">NOVA</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Southeastern</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, W. Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, and am at the beginning stages of writing my dissertation but did some research with the past 2 years on surveys (I have to do one for for about 3,000 engineers). The problem I've run into is two-fold and for me, a bit discouraging, but I'll share with you since you asked for pitfalls (although I recognize that you may have thought of these already).

1. People don't like to respond to surveys if they don't know the person sending it AND worry about how the information they relate will be used.

2. I had called Zoomerang and they seemed reliable (and one of my former classmates recommended the company (but can't recall how much they charge).

3. I will be purchasing mailing list from some of the professional engineering associations...(a) the associations don't give out email addresses....(b) some associations are even getting skittish about even selling mailing lists nowadays with all the scams. My university tells me that I must show proof of where I got my mailing lists....I guess this rule has to do with ensuring integrity of the process, and the School doesn't want to impair its accreditation.  Interestingly, even though I belong to many engineering associations, I can't just use the membership directories from these groups....have to buy the mailing lists.

Sincerely,

Linda Force