Dear GDO Members,
I am writing to first thank you for taking the time to vote in our recent elections, and second to inform you of the outcomes. Voting in the elections is key to ensuring our Executive Committee represents the GDO membership's priorities for how the division moves forward. Your time and thoughtful consideration of the backgrounds and service motivation of our nominees is very much valued, as is the time and willingness of the individuals who put themselves forward as nominees for pre-selection consideration by the Executive for available positions. The Executive was most impressed with the slate of nominees, which is reflected in the final list of candidates selected to appear on the official ballot. The results of the election are presented below. Our congratulations to those elected to a role and to those who missed out this year, we encourage you to consider running again next year and, in the meantime, the executive will endeavor to find opportunities to involve you in the Division's key committees and activities.
Warmly,
Charmine
Charmine E. J. Härtel PhD l Full Professor of HRM & OD l UQ Business School
Chair GDO Nominations Committee and Immediate Past GDO Division Chair
The University of Queensland l Brisbane QLD 4072 l AUSTRALIA
P: +617 3346 3486 | E: c.hartel@business.uq.edu.au | W: business.uq.edu.au
GDO Election Results
New Division Program Chair-Elect and PDW Chair
5-Year Term: 8/15/2016 – 8/14/2017
The position of Division Program Chair-Elect and PDW Chair is most important for the division as this individual accepts a 5-year term proceeding from PDW Chair (Year 1) to Program Chair (Year 2) to Division Chair Elect (Year 3) to our Division Chair (Year 4) and lastly to Immediate Past Division Chair (Year 5).
We had two outstanding candidates for this position and both received very high levels of support from the membership. The candidate with the most votes, and thus your new Division Program Chair-Elect and PDW Chair is:
Professor Alison Sheridan is currently Head, UNE Business School at the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia. She has been teaching and researching in gender and diversity for twenty five years, and a member of the GDO Division of the Academy of Management since 1998. She says that the resources she has been able to draw on through the GDO Division have helped to shape her scholarship and prompted her commitment to changing practice to creating more inclusive workplaces. Alison is an associate editor for Gender, Work and Organization, on the editorial advisory board for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and a member of the executive of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (2003-2009). To date Alison's service to the GDO Division has included reviewing for the GDO stream of the conference, serving as a panel member for two key awards for the Division in 2015; the Saroj Parasuraman Award for Outstanding Gender and Diversity in Organizations Publication and the 2015 Janet Chusmir (Lifetime) Service Award. Through these roles she says she has gained a deeper appreciation of the importance of the service contributions of colleagues to sustaining a vibrant GDO division and this is why she is pleased to take a more active role by accepting and stepping up to the position of Division Program Chair-Elect and PDW Chair.
New Representatives at Large to Executive Committee
3-Year Term 8/15/2016 - 8/14/2019
Four positions for Representative at Large are available each year. Our Representatives at Large provide an important service to the division in chairing and serving as a member of a minimum of one GDO committee for each year of their three-year term.
We had 19 outstanding candidates from around the world running for these positions and it was a tightly contested race. Although only four positions are available, the executive will seek to involve those candidates who missed out on the role this year in key division committees and activities.
Congratulations to the following four who become GDO's most recent cohort of Representatives at Large:
David Baldridge is a Newcomb Fellow and Associate Professor of Management at Oregon State University. David is also a St. Gallen University Center for Disability Studies visiting professor, a National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) Research Associate, and Human Relations editorial board member. He earned his Ph.D. from The University of Connecticut, Storrs. His MBA and Bachelor degrees are from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. David's research focus is individual difference, diversity, and inclusion. In particular, the full inclusion and utilization of individuals' skills, talents and abilities. His current focus is older employees and persons with disabilities, as well as the impact of educational status, gender, national culture, and race. David's research on diversity, individual difference and inclusion has been recognized by GDO and appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management Review and other leading management publications. He has volunteered and served GDO for nearly 20 years as a reviewer, awards committee member and ambassador. David is also very active in serving others who are Deaf/hard-of-hearing as a regular volunteer, author, speaker, and board member.
Eddy Ng is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Dalhousie University, Canada, where he holds the F.C. Manning Chair in Economics and Business. (a) His research revolves around public policy on equal treatment in the workplace (i.e., employment equity and affirmative action), managing diversity for organizational competitiveness, and managing an intergenerational workforce. He recently won a $123K SSHRC grant to study workplace diversity and inclusion practices successful implementation and areas for modernization. (b) He has served as Past Chair, Chair, and PDW Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee, and on GDO's Sage Best Dissertation Award Committee. (c) Outside of academia, he sits on a non-profit board to bring arts to diverse socioeconomic groups in Atlantic Canada. He frequently speaks about diversity issues on popular media outlets such as the Globe and Mail, the Financial Post, CBC News, CTV News, and Global TV News. He maintains an active blog on Psychology Today under the theme Diverse and Competitive. He hopes to create a more inclusive academy, to encourage more scholars in other management areas to conduct research on diversity and inclusion, and to influence public policies and organizational practices through research and executive education.
Sabrina Volpone is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico in the Anderson School of Management. Recently she was named the Anderson Advisory Professor at the University of New Mexico, a Hispanic-serving institution, where she teaches Organizational Behavior and Diversity. In the last five years, Dr. Volpone has published 19 referred publications on diversity related topics such as workplace discrimination and inclusion. Her research is published in such peer-reviewed journals as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. One of these recent publications was nominated as one of three finalists for the Best Article Award of 2012 in Personnel Psychology. In the past year, Sabrina has had the privilege of serving as a member of the review team for the division's five-year review. Further, she was recently recognized with the Best Reviewer award. Over the past several years, she has served on a number of GDO committees including the Best Conference Paper Based on a Dissertation Award Selection Committee, the Dorothy Harlow Best Conference Paper Award Committee, the Student Transnational Research Award Committee, and the Emerald Best Student Paper award.
Kate Walsh is interim dean and E.M. Statler professor, as well as associate professor of management, at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. She received her Ph.D. from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Her primary research considers the intersection of career theory, individual identity and organizational relationships. Specifically, her current work examines the career paths of women professionals and ways organizations could reconfigure work that enables women (and any who are typically marginalized) to thrive in their organizations as vital members. Kate cares deeply about this issue because she believes there is great potential in taking a relational view of work, and rethinking the employee-organization relationship. Kate's past and current work have appeared in outlets such as Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Resource Management Review, Organization Science, Career Development International, The Service Industries Journal, Trends in Organizational Behavior, Research in Management Consulting, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, The Learning Organization, and the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly. She also actively works with women professionals, both young university graduates, and those in mid-career, to provide advice and counsel on managing their career transitions and building meaningful work-lives.
Kate says she is interested in serving in GDO because she is very proud of how this community gives voice to many, while simultaneously supporting and enabling all of us. She says she has truly benefited from the connections she has made from membership in this Division, and is especially appreciative of GDO's mission to embrace all perspectives and give voice to marginalized views. She looks forward to the opportunity to give back and support our growing network of scholars in ways that deepens both our research and practice, as well as makes doing our own work, quite simply, more enjoyable, rewarding and meaningful.
Automatically continuing GDO Executive Officers:
Donna Blancero, who moves from PDW Chair to Program Chair
Patrick McKay, who moves from Program Chair to Division Chair Elect
Doug Creed, who moves from Division Chair Elect to Division Chair
Lisa Nishii, who moves from Division Chair to Immediate Past Division Chair
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