Strategic Plan Update
As President and a fellow member of the Academy of Management, I have been proud to see my colleagues’ work that has come from the AOM Strategic Doing initiative. But our work is just beginning. This letter is to invite your involvement in “shaping our future.”
In 2010, then-President Jim Walsh announced the results of the Strategic Planning process, focusing on 4 areas of Strategic Intent with related objectives. In 2011, then-President Susan Jackson challenged members to meet these objectives by putting the plan into action through Strategic Doing. As we look forward to 2012, I thank those who have met the challenge and urge all members to bring your ideas forward, and put them into motion by furthering our shared objectives in Strategic Doing. I would like to declare 2012 as the year of Strategic Involvement.
We need your involvement to realize our vision and the many objectives in our Strategic Plan. Below is a sampling of the Strategic Doing projects our fellow members have initiated. YOUR project could be listed here by submitting a proposal for a new project. To initiate a new project, please follow these steps:
- Visit The Strategic Planning website. Review the Areas of Strategic Intent and the Strategic Objectives.
- Learn more about Strategic Doing.
- Find inspiration through the active projects underway.
- Pick a Strategic Objective that appeals to you. Share your ideas and find collaborators on AOM Connect.
- Work through your division, interest group, or an Academy committee as part of a Project Team to prepare a Strategic Doing Project Proposal.
The next deadline for submission of proposals is March 28, 2012 (see the Strategic Plan Calendar for additional review dates).
Alternatively, you could contribute by offering your ideas or resources related to these current projects.
Teaching Resources [Area of Strategic Intent: Professional Impact]:
- A library of cases and member-produced videos of testimonials in local languages (subtitles in English) that illustrate how AOM scholarship and teaching help inspire and enable a better world.
Learn more
Get Involved! Submit a video for this project. Tell us you intend to submit by December 15th and get started!
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Africa Initiatives [Area of Strategic Intent: Internationalization]:
- Sponsorship of 10 African scholars for the AOM Annual Meeting and the Africa Academy of Management Mini-Conference.
Learn more - A series of faculty development workshops for scholars in Africa.
Learn more - The Academy's first global conference to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 7-10, 2013.
Get involved! Submit a paper and attend the Academy’s first Global Conference.
Learn more
Ethics Resources [Area of Strategic Intent: Professional Impact]:
- A monthly blog spotlighting and supporting discussions on common ethical issues that are faced by Academy members.
Read the Blog | Learn more - A series of videos addressing common ethical questions surrounding publication, featuring journal editors, ethics experts and Academy leadership.
View the video series | Learn more
Get involved! Participate in the ethics blog and share your own experiences.
A most valued characteristic of AOM is the service spirit of our members. It is our members' volunteerism and care that have contributed to what AOM is today. I look forward to working with you to help build a more vibrant and supportive community of scholars dedicated to inspiring and enabling a better world. Together, we can make this Strategic Involvement year a great success!
Happy Holidays and I look forward to receiving your proposals!Anne Tsui
President, Academy of Management
The Academy of Management has embarked on a strategic planning process to make a difference for members and the world.
The Prompt for Planning
Some years had passed since our last conversation about how to remain indispensible to the membership. Leaders had come and gone, the Academy had grown and become more diverse, and the world had changed—as did the immediate environment in which our members now find themselves.
In response, the Academy's leadership engaged in a strategic planning effort to shape our association for years to come. This site shares the results of that effort from December 2008 to April 2010.
The planning process included multiple steps and broad member participation. We invite you to read the documents that informed the plan and take a journey through our vision, mission, values, strategic intentions and objectives.
We inspire and enable a better world through our scholarship and teaching about management and organizations.
To build a vibrant and supportive community of scholars by markedly expanding opportunities to connect and explore ideas.
Our mission is guided by key values:
- We value high quality research, teaching, and practice in the field of management and organization.
- We cultivate and advocate ethical behavior in all of aspects of our work.
- We provide a dynamic and supportive community for all of our members, embracing the full diversity of our backgrounds and experiences.
- We respect each of our members' voices and seek to amplify their ideas.
- We build cooperative relationships with other institutions committed to the advancement of scholarship and teaching about management and organization.
- Internationalization
The Academy of Management is inspired by the breadth of its international membership. In all of our activities, we value and respect our diversity and strive to leverage it to support our mutual learning. Further, we recognize and seek opportunities to collaborate with kindred organizations for mutual benefit. We embrace the challenge of advancing our scholarship and teaching worldwide. - Professional Impact
The Academy of Management encourages our members to make a positive difference in the world by supporting scholarship that matters. We encourage and facilitate dialogue with practice that will enhance the world’s social and economic well-being. Tending to the next generation of scholars, we help our members educate their students to be resourceful and responsible leaders. In all, we are a premier network of scholars who care about the enduring impact of our work. - State of the Profession
We live in a demanding and dynamic environment, an environment that both challenges our profession and offers opportunities for growth and innovation. We help define what it means to be a management and organization scholar in our changing world. Looking to practice, we help define what it means to be a leader in contemporary society. In collaboration with our stakeholders, we work to remove barriers and create opportunities to realize our professional aspirations. - Academy Management
The Academy of Management is distinguished by its many small communities that together ask and answer a range of important scholarly questions. The Academy is united by an abiding passion for excellence in the creation and dissemination of management and organization knowledge. To sustain the long-term health of our professional association, we will a) provide a portfolio of member-responsive services that supports our strategic initiatives; b) manage our finances in a fiscally responsible manner, allowing us to be at once responsive to our members’ needs and ready to seize opportunities as they appear; and c) maintain governance mechanisms that are capable of balancing the interests of a large, volunteer-based organization and its many constituent communities.
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AOM leaders and members are needed to move the Strategic Plan forward. In this "Strategic Doing" section, you will find everything you need to discuss strategic objectives, start a project team or volunteer! The following links provide information and forms needed to get involved.
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From Strategic Planning to Strategic Doing:
Description of the process for putting the plan to action. -
Discuss:
Join the group on AOM Connect to share ideas about strategic objectives and form project teams. -
Guidelines for Preparing a Strategic Doing Project Proposal:
How to complete a proposal and take action on a strategic objective. - Sample Funded Proposals - Now in Progress
Included here are sample projects that have been funded by the Academy's Strategic Doing process. This section will expand as more proposals are received and reviewed. Please check back again! -
Project Proposal Form:
Download a Microsoft Word document form to outline your team’s proposal and then submit it online. - Evaluation Criteria:
View the evaluation criteria for received Strategic Doing Project Proposals -
Timeline:
Deadlines for submitting proposals and timeframe for review by the Board of Governors. -
Board Liaison Committees:
Who to contact for advice during proposal development.