Call for Abstracts:
4th ANNUAL PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS CONFERENCE
October 14th and 15th,2011
The Wharton School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
OVERVIEW
These conferences have brought attention to organization-level research on topics associated with work and employment. Representative papers from past years have included studies explaining workplace practices, examining organization-level outcomes associated with practices or studying the effects of workplace practices on individuals. Human capital issues related to business strategy issues have also become a common theme.
Among topics of particular interest this coming year are:
- New developments in work and employment relationships
- The practices and effects of labor market intermediaries, including staffing agencies and search consultants
- The effects of organizational employment practices on firm performance and worker outcomes
- The structure and determinants of careers in and across modern workplaces
- Causes and effects of worker mobility
- New insights on inequality in the workplace
- The intersection of human and social capital
We plan to continue our practice of speed networking interactions and less formal feedback sessions for work in progress.
Submissions:
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract of 800 words or less by July 1st 2011. Submit on-line to Peter Cappelli -
Cappelli@wharton.upenn.edu. The organizing committee will select papers and discussants with the goal of producing an engaging discussion.
Submissions from all fields and disciplines are welcome. We are particularly seeking studies that have not yet been published nor accepted for publication. We are less interested in studies that have no empirical results, however, unless they are explicitly theoretical. We have a special interest in studies that relate to new developments in issues around work and employment.
Attendance:
If you would like to attend the conference and not present a paper, please let us know by July 1st. Spaces are limited, especially for overnight accommodations, but we will do our best within logistics constraints. In the interests of maximizing participation with limited budgets, we hope that participants can handle their own travel expenses.
Questions:
Feel free to contact any of the members of the organizing committee with questions.
Conference Organizing Committee:
Matthew Bidwell, The Wharton School (
MBidwell@wharton.upenn.edu)
Diane Burton, Cornell University (
Burton@cornell.edu)
Peter Cappelli, The Wharton School (
Cappelli@wharton.upenn.edu)
Gina Dokko, University of California, Davis (
gdokko@ucdavis.edu)
Peter Sherer, University of Calgary (
Peter.Sherer@haskayne.ucalgary.ca)