Each year, the Academy of Management recognizes four outstanding
individuals, who have made significant contributions to the field
of management through their service, research, innovative teaching
methods, breakthrough developments, and more over the course of
their career. The 2017 Career Achievement Awards will presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Atlanta, Georgia.
Call for Nominations:
- Distinguished Educator Award
- Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award
- Distinguished Service Award
- Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award
Nomination Guidelines
Nominations for the 2017 Career Achievement Awards are currently being accepted. To nominate an outstanding individual for one of these distinguished awards, please review the guidelines below and submit your nomination via email to the Career Achievement Awards Committee Chair, at awards@aom.org.
- Preparing a nomination package:
- Review the award criteria (listed below).
- Notify the nominee. The recipient will be recognized at the General Session at the Annual Meeting. As such, please verify that the nominee is aware of your nomination, and, should he or she be selected, has agreed to attend the meeting to accept the award in person.
- Submitting a nomination package:
- All completed nomination packages must be received by the deadline to be considered for the 2017 Career Achievement Awards.
- The nomination package should include the following:
- A letter of recommendation [no more than two pages] to the committee chair that specifically describes the person’s accomplishments in relation to the award criteria. The letter should clearly identify the award the person is being nominated for, and justify why the person deserves the award.
- We encourage up to three [no more than three] letters of support for inclusion in the nomination package.
- A resume, CV or brief bio for the nominee (can be pulled from faculty webpage or other online source).
- Additional notes:
- Renewable nominations. Nominations may be considered for future awards. During submission, please indicate whether you would like the nomination package to be “rolled over” and considered by future award committees, if not selected for one for the 2017 awards.
- Award Eligibility. Recent recipients of the Career Achievement Awards (any of the four distinguished awards, within the last 5 years) are not eligible for consideration for the awards. Nominations received for a recent award recipient will be
automatically rolled over to the nearest year of eligibility.
- Additional Information. The committee may follow up to request additional information from the nominator and/or nominee during the selection process.
- Notification. Selected award recipients will be notified by July 15, 2017. Award recipients may be asked to provide 1-4 image files (head shots, etc.) for promotional use and recognition.
All nominations must be submitted to the 2017 Career Achievement Awards Committee by JUNE 16, 2017. Due to the volume of submissions for each award, only those selected for the award may be contacted with the results prior to the presentation of the award at the Annual Meeting. Results of the 2017 Career Achievement Awards will be determined by July 15, 2017.
Distinguished Educator Award
Over the course of a career, award recipient has made
significant contributions in one or more of the following
areas:
- Developing doctoral
students
- Teaching
effectively
- Fostering
pedagogical innovations
- Developing effective
methods, structure, and designs
Distinguished Service
Award
Over the course of a career, award recipient has made
significant contributions in one or more of the following
areas:
- Enhancing a field of
study
- Founding or
creatively editing a scholarly journal
- Unusually effective
service to a major professional institution
Distinguished
Scholar-Practitioner Award
Over the course of a career, award recipient has made
significant contributions in one or more of the following
areas:
- Successful
application of theory or research in practice and/or contributed to
knowledge through extraction of learning from practice
- Authored scholarly
works which have substantively affected the practice of
management
- Integration of
research and practice
- Their work will be
respected by peers (both practitioner and academic)
Distinguished Scholarly
Contributions to Management Award
Over the course of a career, award recipient has made
significant contributions in one or more of the following
areas:
- Conceptual,
empirical, or theoretical developments
- Creating and
disseminating new knowledge
- Advancing management
knowledge and practice
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