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OB Faculty Position at Queen's School of Business

  • 1.  OB Faculty Position at Queen's School of Business

    Posted 08-21-2007 11:49

    Please see below position announcement.  Apologies for cross-postings.

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    QUEEN'S SCHOOL OF BUSINESS is inviting applications for a tenure track position in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resources (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor levels).

    Members of the Queen's School of Business Organizational Behaviour Group are interested in how organizations and their members build, maintain, enhance and damage professional connections and the effects these can have on individual, group, and organizational well-being.  Our faculty members are widely acknowledged as leaders in areas of research such as organizational alliances, conflict and negotiations, cross-cultural management, occupational health, leadership, and work-family issues.  Some of our interests include trust in organizations, transformational leadership and well-being, safety, careers of female business graduates, the social context of collaboration, workplace aggression and conflict, human resource management in China, arbitration, and claiming and using credits at work.  Our faculty are members of prominent editorial boards (e.g., Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal), editors or past-editors of major journals (e.g., Journal of Occupational Health Psychology), and authors of leading textbooks (e.g., International Management Behaviour, Negotiation).  The School has a Research Pool designed to give students first hand exposure to current behavioural research, and is administered through a website where researchers can post their studies and students can sign-up.

    QUALIFICATIONS:  Candidates must have a PhD or be near completion.  Applicants must exhibit high potential for innovative scholarly research and for outstanding teaching contributions in support of the School's various programs.

    COMPENSATION:  Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.  Appointees have access to substantial internal funds both for research and course development through Queen's School of Business Research Program and the Faculty Development Fund.

    INSTITUTION:  Queen's University has a long and rich tradition of academic excellence, dating back to a royal charter granted by Queen Victoria in 1841. Queen's School of Business is one of the world's premier business schools, with an outstanding reputation for innovation and quality. Our MSc and PhD programs in Management attract highly qualified research-oriented students in seven different fields of study.  Our undergraduate Commerce program has among the highest entrance standards in Canada and is widely viewed as the country's best undergraduate business program. Queen's has gained international recognition for its MBA and executive education programs.  BusinessWeek ranks Queen's full-time MBA #1 outside the U.S.; Queen's Executive MBA #1 in Canada and #21 in the world; and our open enrolment executive education programs #1 in Canada and #10 in the world. Queen's School of Business is also home to Centres focused on business venturing, corporate social responsibility, knowledge-based enterprise and corporate governance. The School is fully accredited by U.S.-based AACSB,  Brussels-based EQUIS (the accrediting arm of EFMD – the European Foundation for Management Development), and U.K.-based Association of MBAs. The learning environment at Queen's is supported by outstanding library and computing facilities. More information is at: business.queensu.ca.

    THE CITY:        Kingston, Ontario is a unique Canadian city of 125,000 with a distinct blend of history, recreation, industry and learning. Situated on the shores of Lake Ontario, it is within a two-and-a-half hour drive of Toronto, Montreal, and the nation's capital, Ottawa. Kingston is a thirty minute drive from the international bridge linking Ontario and upstate New York, and another ninety minutes from Syracuse.

    This is an international search, open to candidates of all nationalities.  However, in accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.  Queen's University is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.  The academic staff at Queen's University are governed by a Collective Agreement between the Queen's University Faculty Association (QUFA) and the University, which is posted at: qufa.ca. The appointments are subject to final budgetary approval.

    The effective date of the appointment will be July 1st, 2008, but is flexible. Applicants should submit a cover letter, current CV, three letters of recommendation, teaching evaluations and a sample publication, thesis proposal or completed thesis, electronically to: obrecruiting@business.queensu.ca. Applications will be accepted until October 31, 2007.

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    Jana L. Raver, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor and E. Marie Shantz Research Fellow in Organizational Behavior
    Queen's School of Business
    Queen's University
    Goodes Hall
    Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
    tel: (613) 533-3253
    fax: (613) 533-6847
    jraver@business.queensu.ca