Imagine the Future World: How do we want to work tomorrow? @EAWOP2013

Inside St. Paul’s Cathedral, Münster, Germany
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The 16^th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP), takes place in Münster, Germany this week, May 22-25, 2013. As the EAWOP website states, “the congress is one of the three largest international conferences of work and organizational psychologists worldwide, and the largest in Europe. In 2013, we expect more than 1,200 scientists and practitioners to attend the congress for three exciting days.

What is the future of work? Click here to read
our collection of SAGE articles to celebrate #EAWOP2013!

“The theme of the 16^th congress, ‘Imagine the future world: How do we want to work tomorrow?’ intends to inspire new and innovative ideas on how to master the manifold new challenges we experience in work organizations today and tomorrow, such as globalization and digitalization of economic processes, flexible work with remote partners, demographic changes, financial turbulences, and growing climatic problems. Therefore, this congress is not only a stimulating event for the community of work and organizational psychologists, but shall also provide inspiring ideas and concepts for decision makers in related disciplines, consultancies, and politics.”

You are able to follow the congress on Twitter @EAWOP2013 and view the program. If attending the congress, please make plans to stop by the stand and see us.

SAGE is proud to publish a journal, Organizational Psychology Review, in partnership with EAWOP.  Organizational Psychology Review’s unique aim is to publish original conceptual work and meta-analyses in the field of organizational psychology (broadly defined to include applied, industrial, occupational, personnel, and work psychology as well as organizational behaviour). Access to Organizational Psychology Review (OPR) is free until 31 December 2013. Click here.  Other OPR features include: OnlineFirst (publish ahead of print) articles; Special Forum on ‘Good Theory’; and Email Alerts to stay on top of the latest issues in organizational psychology.

To celebrate the EAWOP congress, we’re also pleased to offer here free access to research from top scholars in the field. Just click to read. For more related research, you can also follow us this week on Twitter @SAGEManagement.

Earth Day 2013: The Present and Future of CSR Research

In anticipation of Earth Day tomorrow, we are pleased to highlight an article in Business & Society on the impact of Newsweek magazine’s 2009 Greenest Companies ratings on financial market outcomes. This large-scale environmental assessment evaluates the impact of sustainability ratings on 500 of the largest U.S. companies. Read “Environmental Disclosure: Evidence from Newsweek’s Green Companies Rankings,’” published by Thomas P. Lyon of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Jay P. Shimshack of Tulane University in Business & Society OnlineFirst, publish ahead of print, August 13, 2012.

In the journal Organization, a special issue on the current trajectory of Corporate Social Responsibility in both scholarly inquiry and business practice asks “Is there anything substantively useful in the area of CSR research when it comes to providing some ethical guidelines for the way business is done today, or should it be abandoned as just another piece of capitalist ideology? If there is an overriding feeling that we have all been some­how ‘duped’ by the premises and solutions of CSR, what might be the best way forward when its presence is more widespread now than ever?” Read “In Search of Corporate Social Responsibility: Introduction to Special Issue” published by Peter Fleming of Queen Mary College, UK, John Roberts, Sydney Business School, Australia and Christina Garsten of University of Stockholm, Sweden and the rest of the special issue in the Organization May 2013 issue.

It’s International Women’s Day

Poster for Women’s Day,
March 8, 1914
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It is International Women’s Day today, observed since the early 1900s to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. To commemorate the day, events are taking place worldwide, from small to large scale. The 2013 official theme, “The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum,” and the UN theme, “A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence against Women,” touch on the wide scope of issues under consideration at this time.

In support of International Women’s Day (#IWD2013), SAGE is pleased to open access to key articles on gender and the workplace through April 30:

• “Fatherhood and Managerial Style: How a Male CEO’s Children Affect the Wages of His Employees” published in Administrative Science Quarterly by Michael S. Dahl, Cristian L. Dezső and David Gaddis Ross
• “The Gender-Mediated Impact of a Career Development Intervention” published in Australian Journal of Career Development  by Diana V.W. Cassie and Charles P. Chen
• “Gender perceptions of work-life balance: Management implications for full-time employees in Australia” published in Australian Journal of Management by Yuka Fujimoto, Fara Azmat and Charmine Hartel
• “The Global Compact and Gender Inequality: A Work in Progress” published in Business & Society by Maureen A. Kilgour
•  “The romance of working together: Benefits of gender diversity on group performance in China” published in Human Relations by Yan Zhang and LiWen Hou
•  “Gender identities and practices: Interpreting women entrepreneurs’ narratives” published in International Small Business Journal by María-Cristina Díaz García and Friederike Welter
• “Something of Collaborative Manufacture: The Construction of Race and Gender Identities in Organizations” published in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science by Erica Gabrielle Foldy
• “Using Power to Influence Outcomes: Does Gender Matter?” published in Journal of Management Education by Mary Shapiro, Cynthia Ingols and Stacy Blake-Beard
• “Benevolent Sexism at Work: Gender Differences in the Distribution of Challenging Developmental Experiences” published in Journal of Management by Eden B. King, Whitney Botsford, Michelle R. Hebel, Stephanie Kazama, Jeremy F. Dawson and Andrew Perkins
• “Is the ‘F’-word still dirty? A past, present and future of/for feminist and gender studies in Organization” published in Organization by Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford and Marianna Fotaki
• “The subordination of the Feminine: Developing a Critical Feminist Approach to the Psychoanalysis of Organizations” published in Organization Studies by Sheena J. Vachhani

For a more complete listing of SAGE offerings on gender, we are currently running a free online trial to SAGE Sociology and Gender Studies journals through March 31. Click to access.

Putting a Face on Bullying in the Workplace

“The Bully Effect” premiers Thursday, Feb. 28
at 10 p.m. ET on cnn.com

In recent years, research and documentaries have brought the issue of bullying to the forefront of the American conscience by illustrating the heartbreaking impact that it can have in schools and in the workplace. As a result, a national movement has taken off, forcing children, parents, teachers and those in the workplace to examine this cruel and dangerous practice and find ways to put a stop to it. Recently published scholarly articles show that researchers too are examining what’s behind bullying and offering illuminating insights that provide avenues for future research, practical helps for intervention, and potential implications for policy.

How to address bullying is an issue that is incredibly pertinent to our modern-day society. With today’s  premier of “The Bully Effect,” a new documentary illustrating the effects of bullying and the “life-changing journeys” that families go through when dealing with these issues,  it is clear that bullying is an issue that we as a society need to better understand in order to help those who are affected.

Click to read the latest
research on workplace bullying
from SAGE Publications

In order to support the dissemination of this important research, SAGE is offering the following journal articles on workplace bullying free for a limited time:

• “Destructive Leadership: A Theoretical Review, Integration, and Future Research Agenda” published in The Journal of Management by Dina V. Kraskikova, Stephen G. Green and James M. LeBreton
•  “Embracing New Directions in Workplace Bullying Research: A Paradigmatic Approach” published in Journal of Management Inquiry by Al-Karim Samnani
• “Rethinking Workplace Bullying as an Employment Relations Problem” published in Journal of Industrial Relations by Jacquie Hutchinson
• “Escaping bullying: The simultaneous impact of individual and unit-level bullying on turnover intentions” published in Human Relations by Marjan Houshmand, Jane O’Reilly, Sandra Robinson and Angela Wolff
• “It’s Complicated: Defining Workplace Bullying from the Human Resource Professional’s Perspective” published in Management Communication Quarterly by Renee L. Cowan
•  “Answering Five Key Questions About Workplace Bullying: How Communication Scholarship Provides Thought Leadership for Transforming Abuse at Work” published in Management Communication Quarterly by Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik and Sarah J. Tracy
• “Workplace bullying and the employment relationship: exploring questions of prevention, control and context” published in Work, Employment & Society by David Beale and Helge Hoel
• “Resilience as an Underexplored Outcome of Workplace Bullying” published in Qualitative Health Research by Kate van Heugten

For a more complete listing of SAGE offerings on bullying, please click here.

The Oscars: Shining a Light on the Best in Film

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Today the Oscars, or Academy Awards, program for excellence in cinematic achievement will be telecast worldwide.

What does academic research have to say about global films and the industries surrounding them? Plenty, it appears. We’ve pulled together a collection of articles spanning film and television and covering such issues as: using films to teach organizational behavior; examining ethical leadership through images of Italian-American immigrant leaders; discovering the advantages and disadvantages of social capital in film and TV work; promoting destinations via film tourism, and much more. Read the articles free through March 10^th.

Enjoy!

Nicholas O. Warner and Ronald E. Riggio
Italian-American leadership in Hollywood films: Images and realities
Leadership (August 2012)

 

Irena Grugulis and Dimitrinka Stoyanova
Social Capital and Networks in Film and TV: Jobs for the Boys?
Organization Studies (October 2012)

 

Gerald W. Smith
Using Feature Films as the Primary Instructional Medium to Teach Organizational Behavior
Journal of Management Education (August 2009)

 

Lorraine Rowlands and Jocelyn Handy
An addictive environment: New Zealand film production workers’ subjective experiences of project-based labour
Human Relations (May 2012)

 

Dal Yong Jin
Transforming the global film industries: Horizontal integration and vertical concentration amid neoliberal globalization
International Communication Gazette (August 2012)

 

Simon Hudson and J.R. Brent Ritchie
Promoting Destinations via Film Tourism: An Empirical Identification of Supporting Marketing Initiatives
Journal of Travel Research (January 2010)

 

Jean-Marc Lehu and Étienne Bressoud
Recall of Brand Placement in Movies: Interactions between Prominence and Plot Connection in Real Conditions of Exposure
Recherche et Applications en Marketing (English Edition) (March 2009)

Maximizing the Impact of Your Academic Research Using Twitter

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You’ve probably heard about the amazing growth of Twitter use. According to the latest Pew Research, “the proportion of online adults who use Twitter on a typical day has doubled since May 2011 and has quadrupled since late 2010.” (Smith, Aaron and Brenner, Joanna. Twitter Use 2012. Pew Internet, May 31, 2012. Web. June 21, 2012.) Did you also know that universities and academics are finding Twitter to be an important means for cultivating downloads and usage of papers? Have you ever thought about using Twitter to increase the reach of your research? Do you know how to go about this? Or why you should? From its start in 2006 as a means to communicate quickly with a specific group, Twitter has evolved and grown and should now be an important tool in your arsenal of ways to promote your research. Here’s why.

A recent blog post from the London School of Economics and Political Science, “Who gives a tweet? After 24 hours and 860 downloads, we think quite a few actually do,” told of what happened when the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) released a research paper as part of the NCRM Methods Review series to a large number of interested academics and researchers on Twitter: “The paper was uploaded online late afternoon on Monday 26th March and was first tweeted to our followers the following day. The paper caught the interest of NCRM Twitter followers and within 24h it was retweeted 10 times to over 5000 followers and shared 135 times using social sharing tools (email, microblogging, social bookmarking, social networking) available on NCRM website. This resulted in 861 downloads within 24 hours of the first tweet about our paper. This was clearly a Twitter effect, as the paper was not publicised anywhere else at that time.”

Although you may not see results quite like these from the NCRM, if you’re willing to try promoting your article this way, you’ll find that Twitter allows the ability to broaden your reach outside your normal audience and you will see increased downloads and greater usage of your paper as a result. In addition, you can quickly update all of your followers multiple times a day, or as often as you are able, offering more opportunities to increase the reach of your research.

A few tips:

• When creating your tweets, make them interesting – for example, pull out a finding in your research or ask a question the research answers.
• Remember to use hashtags judiciously in order to have your tweet show up in relevant searches.
• Change the text of the tweets to attract more attention.
• Keep your tweets to 120 characters or less as they’re more likely to be retweeted.
• Take note of what works for the next time you tweet about your research!

At SAGE we have a number of active social media channels spanning SAGE corporate, disciplines, audiences and major products. Connect with us today! If you have a book or article you’d like us to help you promote via social media, let us know.

Happy tweeting!

Examining Business through Films

Today the Academy Awards will be telecast worldwide.

In the academic research, films and the industry surrounding them have played a role and have offered interesting insights into the business world. For today’s post, we’ve pulled together an interesting assortment of articles on movie awards; movies and marketing; power and masculinities in popular films and the use of film in re-imaging a tourism destination.

We hope you enjoy this selection.

Gerda Gemser, Mark A. A. M. Leenders and Nachoem M. Wijnberg

“Why Some Awards Are More Effective Signals of Quality than Others: A Study of Movie Awards”

Journal of Management (February 2008)

Russell Belk

“Examining Markets, Marketing, Consumers and Society through Documentary Films

Journal of Macromarketing (December 2011)

Pierre McDonagh and Pat Brereton

“Screening Not Greening: An Ecological Reading of the Greatest Business Movies”

Journal of Macromarketing (June 2010)

Alexia Panayiotou and Krini Kafiris

“Viewing the Language of Space: Organizational Spaces, Power and Resistance in Popular Films”

Journal of Management Inquiry (September 2011)

Alexia Panayiotou

“’Macho’ managers and organizational heroes: competing masculinities in popular films”

Organization (November 2010)

Noëlle O’Connor, Sheila Flanagan and David Gilbert

“The use of film in re-imaging a tourism destination: a case study of Yorkshire, UK”

Journal of Vacation Marketing (January 2010)

Free Trial to SAGE Marketing Content

To celebrate the Winter Marketing Educators’ Conference of the American Marketing Association, SAGE is pleased to offer access to our Marketing journals via a free trial through March 19th, as well as links to our other Marketing and Management products. See below for details.

Register for a free trial to SAGE journals in Marketing and Hospitality.

Calls for Papers – View a full list of SAGE journals to read Aims & Scope and manuscript submission guidelines by journal.

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SAGE Open – a new open-access publication from SAGE – publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

Marketing Journals: Click to Access Marketing Journals

Marketing Journal Rankings: Read the most-viewed post on Management INK from the Journal of Marketing Education.  Source: “A Comprehensive Analysis of Marketing Journal Rankings” by Michelle D. Steward and Bruce R. Lewis.

Marketing Books: Click to Access Marketing Books

Don’t miss these new texts: International Marketing by Daniel W. Baack, Eric G. Harris and Donald Baack; and Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good, Fourth Edition by Nancy R. Lee and Philip Kotler

Management Journals:

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We hope to see you at the AMA Winter Marketing Educators’ meeting. Whether you’re able to attend or not, feel free to use these resources with our compliments.