PDW for OB PhD STUDENTS:
Earning your PhD is quite the journey. For the second installment of the AOM PDW, "Developing Each Other: Peer Mentorship and Professional Development for Organizational Behavior Ph.D. Students and Ph.D. Candidates", we will present the anonymous thoughts, perspectives, and personal experiences of OB Jr. faculty members, related to their time as Ph.D. students, as well as the anonymous perspectives of current Ph.D. students (survey topics for both groups include goal setting, research identity, hierarchical dynamics, publishing, and general)
If you are a Jr. faculty member or Ph.D. student, you can visit our website to find more information about our process.
If you are a Ph.D. student – we would love to see you there!! More info can be found below; please RSVP to karren@wharton.upenn.edu.
Thank you and feel free to reach out with any questions -
Jasmine Huang, Karren Knowlton, & Elizabeth Luckman
Round 2 – Peer Mentorship and Professional Development for Organizational Behavior Ph.D. Students Peer Mentorship for Ph.D.s
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Organizer: Karren Kimberly Knowlton, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Organizer: Jasmine M. Huang, Washington U. in St. Louis
Organizer: Elizabeth Luckman, Washington U. in St. Louis
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Mentorship is critical to the development of Ph.D. students as they journey through their academic programs. Further, some of the most effective and rewarding mentorship can come from peers at the varying levels of Ph.D. programs. Yet, because of the structure and nature of Ph.D. programs and academic departments (small cohorts, political navigation), creating the conditions for optimal peer mentorship is often difficult. We aim to change that. At the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2017, we held a similar version of this workshop with a terrific turnout (over 25 OB Ph.D. students from a wide array of universities) and a high level of engagement. This year, the purpose of this Professional Development Workshop is twofold. First, we will provide an in-person setting for small group discussion and reflection on "table topics" relevant to life as an OB doctoral student (such as hierarchical dynamics, research identity, and goal setting). Second, we will present a compilation of advice that we will collect anonymously from OB junior faculty members prior to the conference. We use this to lead participants through a discussion on how we can best incorporate this information into our growth as OB scholars. These two components of the PDW will serve as an in- person manifestation of the online resource of peer support and information that we are creating and that will soon be available – phdlighthouse.com.
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Registration is not required but we do request that interested participants email karren@wharton.penn.edu with their information (name, type of program, year) prior to attending the session. Thank you!
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Karren Knowlton
Doctoral Student
The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA
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