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T-14 days! Thank you for getting your reviews in on time. ✅ Deadline: November 18 ✅ Where to find your assigned reviews: You'll get an email instructing you to login to your portal ✅ Where to find instructions for reviewing: https://lnkd.in/gvDfHDUH ✅ Where to find guidelines for reviewing: https://lnkd.in/gvDfHDUH ✅ Contact: WAM@podiumconferences.com

Are you ready to serve as a reviewer for WAM 2025 in Kelowna? Now that submissions are closed, we will be sending papers our for peer review. If you are contacted, you can also use these helpful documents. Happy reviewing - and thank you for serving! A fair and accurate process is possible thanks to your help 🥳 Reviewer instructions and guidelines: https://lnkd.in/gvDfHDUH

🥳 Tonight is the night.... WAM 2025 submissions are due! 😄 Deadline: October 27 at 11 PM PST 😄 Submission site: https://lnkd.in/gvDfHDUH 😄 Questions: WAM@podiumconferences.com

Are you ready to network with journal editors, discuss the job market - teaching - research, meet JMI scholars, and participate in professional development? 💙 💙 💙 Then, you're in the right place! You can see the links below to register for WAM's Consortia, happening the Wednesday & Thursday (March 19 & 20) before the Kelowna Conference March 21 & 22. We kick it off Wednesday at 3 PM and have a full day of programming on Thursday. This is truly a highlight of the conference so you won't want to miss it! For example, last year in Long Beach 🌴 , we had an amazing theory development workshop with Paul C. Godfrey! 🤩 Register with the links here: ✅ Pre-Doctoral: https://lnkd.in/g-yxjPPh  ✅ Doctoral : https://lnkd.in/gDtqABYK  ✅ Junior Faculty: https://lnkd.in/g-dBeGAv 

Check it out! Thanks CARMA for another great workshop! 🤓🤓🤓

Submission extension - October 27, 11 PM PST 🎉 To honor the requests for extensions we've been getting, the WAM 2025 conference submissions will now be due in 3 weeks for everyone. You've got a bit more time to get your papers in for Kelowna. We're looking forward to your research! ✅Submission site: https://lnkd.in/gvDfHDUH ✅ Submission types: Traditional paper, Developmental paper, Workshop, Panel, Symposium ✅ Tracks: Management Education, People & Workplace, Research Methods, The Environment/Context, The Firm, The Professoriate, Relationships/ Leadership/ Communication ✅ Potential topics: Individual and organizational resilience, individual coping strategies, organizational histories and culture, leadership development, case studies assessing organizational learning, development, and culture. 😎😎😎 Join us for WAM's 66th conference 😎😎😎 🌟 Theme: “Learning from the Past, Building a Better Future” 🌟 Location: Kelowna, British Columbia 🌟 Date: March 19-22, 2025 🌟 Venue: The conference will be held at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Grand Okanagan Resort, in Kelowna, British Columbia, 170 miles east of Vancouver.

T - 1 week until 2025 conference submissions are due 📚 (Oct. 7 at 11 PM PST) Our President Elect Chris Bradshaw from California State University, Stanislaus chose an awesome theme for this upcoming conference! 😎 This year’s conference theme is “Learning from the Past, Building a Better Future.” Paying respect to and learning from the people and the peoples who have come before us can provide insights that can guide effective management and impactful scholarship that can shape our collective future. We hope WAM can provide an engaging atmosphere to advance our understanding of bridging the past and the future from a broad range of perspectives. 😎 WAM will continue our partnership with the Western Case Writers Association (WCA) and enhance a new partnership with the Consortium for Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA), offering workshops and paper tracks for quantitative and qualitative methods. 😎 To fully experience what Kelowna has to offer we plan to have a memorable “WAMMY”-centric wine tasting experience for our Friday event! We can't wait to see all the exciting research you all are doing. ✅Submission site: https://lnkd.in/gvDfHDUH ✅ Submission types: Traditional paper, Developmental paper, Workshop, Panel, Symposium ✅ Tracks: Management Education, People & Workplace, Research Methods, The Environment/Context, The Firm, The Professoriate, Relationships/ Leadership/ Communication ✅ Potential topics: Individual and organizational resilience, individual coping strategies, organizational histories and culture, leadership development, case studies assessing organizational learning, development, and culture. 😎😎😎 Join us for WAM's 66th conference 😎😎😎 🌟 Theme: “Learning from the Past, Building a Better Future” 🌟 Location: Kelowna, British Columbia 🌟 Date: March 19-22, 2025 🌟 Venue: The conference will be held at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Grand Okanagan Resort, in Kelowna, British Columbia, 170 miles east of Vancouver.

Thank you Kyle Emich for your outstanding service to WAM as a Representative at Large! We especially appreciate the phenomenal Doctoral & Junior Faculty Consortium you organized, which helped so many! In addition to serving at WAM, Kyle is an amazing professor! 😀 He earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Cornell University and is currently an associate professor of management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. 😀 His research explores the role of individual attributes, particularly perceptions and emotions, in team dynamics and other collective environments. This has particular implications for leadership, responding to disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and race, equality, and ethics. 😀 Kyle has published in a number of management and psychology journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods and Psychological Science. His work has also been cited in media outlets such as TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Scientific American. 😀 Kyle has taught both undergraduate and MBA students at Cornell University, Fordham University and the University of Delaware. He currently offers courses in organizational behavior and groups, teams and leadership. 🌟 Check out one of his pubs: https://lnkd.in/e4FgvHJ4 🌟 Title: Better Together: Member Proactivity Is Better for Team Performance When Aligned with Conscientiousness 🌟 Abstract: Proactivity—the tendency to create change in the work environment—typically improves team performance. This relationship is far from perfect, however. We explore inconsistencies in team proactivity literature to answer an important question: When is member proactivity beneficial or dysfunctional for teams? First, we consider the composition of member proactivity at the team level and whether a simple “more is better” heuristic neglects a more complex relationship linking member proactivity to team coordination and performance. Second, we explore whether proactivity is better when aligned with another individual difference focused on the propensity to plan and coordinate with others (i.e., conscientiousness). In two studies, we compare traditional additive and configurational compositional approaches to these two attributes with a new attribute alignment approach, allowing us to examine the co-occurrence of proactivity and conscientiousness within some team members relative to others. First, we find that team member proactivity–conscientiousness (P–C) alignment predicts the performance of MBA consulting teams better than the other team composition models we consider. Then, we replicate this finding in a laboratory simulation, finding that it occurs because P–C alignment improves team coordination. Our results demonstrate that member proactivity is most effective for teams when aligned with conscientiousness.