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Are you a faculty member or doctoral student looking to increase your scholarly productivity? If so, we welcome you to join us in Chicago for the annual Productivity Process PDW:

We are fortunate to have a fantastic line up of contributors (detailed below). Pre-registration is required and the session will be capped at 200 participants. To register, please visit the AOM PDW registration website: https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg.

A major challenge facing junior faculty is learning how to be productive. This implies that research productivity is a process that can be continuously improved through learning. Similar to the sessions of this Professional Development Workshop (PDW) from prior years, our main goal is to help develop an awareness of the processes used by prolific faculty. Although most PDWs use esteemed senior scholars as panelists, we offer a model that uses peer junior faculty members who have established track records of productivity. A unique feature of this PDW is the focus on work and research productivity as a process. That is, presenters will discuss their work habits and how they go about their work (e.g., time allocation, co-authorships, writing blocks, and strategies) as well as other "life" factors that influence their productivity (e.g., exercise, mindset, work/family balance). This session uses a number of formats including individual presentations, large group Q&A, and small group roundtables where participants are able to have conversations with each of the panelists. This year, we are also fortunate to have a keynote address by Jason Colquitt.

Presenters, Q&A Session, & Roundtable Leaders:

• Bess Rouse, Boston University: It's all in the game: Engaging in creative work
• Andrew Carton, University of Pennsylvania: Thoughts on thinking: The fun of "writing papers in your head" while cooking, cleaning, commuting, and other non-computer time.
• Chiahuei Wu, London School of Economics: Building productivity in three aspects: "Can do", "Reason to", "Energized to"
• Mike Baer, Arizona State University: Navigating the journal review process
• Crystal <g class="gr_ gr_49 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="49" data-gr-id="49">Farh</g>, University of Washington: On getting tenure
• Matthew Quade, Baylor University: Being productive while having <g class="gr_ gr_50 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace" id="50" data-gr-id="50">getting</g> to be balanced
• Modupe Akinola, Columbia University: What is your superpower?

Q&A Session & Roundtable Leaders:

• Sean Martin, University of Virginia: Being bulletproof: Staying true to yourself and emotionally healthy through rejection, criticism & doubt
• Kai Chi (Sam) Yam, National University Singapore: Habits of productive scholars

Keynote Speaker & Roundtable Leader:

• Jason Colquitt, University of Georgia: Sprinkle a little NITRO on your research agenda

Participants can expect to:

1. Hear about specific strategies for improving their productivity
2. Ask questions of the panelists (in a large session format as well as in smaller roundtable discussions)
3. Make connections with the panelists and other audience members
4. Share their own strategies related to the topics discussed in this session
5. Leave with a list of resources (e.g., books, articles, courses) compiled from our contributors from this year and years past.

Organizers/Facilitators:

• Elizabeth (Beth) Campbell, University of Minnesota (campbele@umn.edu)
• Adam Stoverink, University of Arkansas (astoverink@walton.uark.edu)
• David Welsh, Arizona State University (davidwelsh@asu.edu)

 

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Elizabeth M. Campbell, PhD
Assistant Professor of Work and Organizations | Lawrence Fellow
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
734.645.7542 | campbele@umn.edu
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