Saroj Parasuraman Outstanding Publication

Saroj Parasuraman Outstanding Publication Award

Status: OPEN Nomination-based Outstanding Scholarship Presented at the AOM Annual Meeting

Presented annually to the individual or individuals who published the best journal article in the field of gender and diversity in the calendar year preceding the award. The intent of the award is to highlight scholarly activity in the field of gender and diversity and to encourage further scholarly activity within our field.

Nomination Details

Nomination status: OPEN

To nominate, please submit:

  1. A nomination letter describing the publication’s contribution and fit with the award criteria (recommended: 1–2 pages)
  2. A copy of the publication (or stable link/DOI), plus full citation information

Please submit nomination materials to the committee chair via email: katina.sawyer@gmail.com.

Nominations may be made by any member of the Academy of Management and self-nominations are welcome. The Award Subcommittee may also generate nominations. Those evaluating the publications will be blind to the source of the nomination.

Tip: Strong nominations clearly connect the publication’s contribution to DEI scholarship and specify the publication’s impact (audience, influence, evidence of use/citation, etc.).

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Criteria

Nominations are evaluated based on clear evidence of the publication’s scholarly merit, rigor, relevance, and impact. Specifically, reviewers consider:

  • Scholarly contribution and significance: The extent to which the research advances theory, knowledge, or practice in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and addresses phenomena that are meaningful and consequential to DEI scholarship and organizational life.

  • Quality and rigor: The technical adequacy and integrity of the work, including strength of theory, soundness of methodology, appropriateness of research design, internal and external validity, robustness of statistical analyses (where applicable), and clarity and coherence of argumentation. For literature reviews, comprehensiveness and synthesis are carefully assessed.

  • Relevance to DEI: The degree to which the publication aligns with the DEI Division’s mission and meaningfully contributes to inclusive understanding within research, organizations, or broader social contexts.

  • Impact: The demonstrated or potential influence of the work on scholarship, teaching, organizational practice, or policy, including its capacity to shape conversations, inform interventions, or guide future research in DEI.

Eligibility Requirements

Only publications with the current year of evaluation publication date will be considered. Publications with multiple authors are eligible. The year of publication is defined as the year in which the final published manuscript appeared in either electronic or print form. Articles must have a DOI to be eligible. In-press articles are not eligible.

Award Details

This award is presented in person at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. 

Contacts

● Award Status: Open

Award Committee
Chair: Katina Sawyer (katina.sawyer@gmail.com)

Publications will be reviewed by a subcommittee of the DEI division, consisting of at least 3 members. The subcommittee will make a recommendation to the Executive Committee about the award-winning publication and, if appropriate, a publication deserving honorable mention status. The Executive Committee may either endorse or reject the recommendations of the subcommittee but may not substitute a nominee of its own.

In the absence of a publication that is deemed deserving of the award by both the Awards Subcommittee and the Executive Committee, the award may be withheld. 

Please submit nomination materials to the committee chair via email: katina.sawyer@gmail.com.

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Past Recipients

Prior recipients of the Saroj Parasuraman Award. Each year includes the award-winning paper and the committee chair(s)/members as recorded.

2025 Award Recipients

Paper Title:
Fairness judgements in the context of structural sexism: Individual and structural causes of success

Award Recipients

Alyssa Tedder-King University of Maryland

Elad N. Sherf University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Runner up:

Paper Title:
Looking Inside the Black Box of Gender Differences in Creativity: A Dual-Process Model and Meta-Analysis

  • Joohyung (Jenny) Kim, City University of Hong Kong
  • Manuel Vaulont, Northeastern University
  • Zhen Zhang, Singapore Management University
  • Kris Byron, Georgia State University

Committee Chairs:
Keimei Sugiyama, Case Western Reserve
Katina Sawyer, University of Arizona

Committee Members:

  • David Baldridge, Oregon State University
  • Diana Bilimoria, Case Western Reserve University
  • Carolyn Dang, Pennsylvania State University
  • Shelby Gai, Michigan State University
  • Lumumba Seegars, Harvard Business School

2024 Award Recipients

Paper Title:
The ethics of diversity ideology: Consequences of leader diversity ideology on ethical leadership perception and organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(2), 307–329.

Award Recipients

Carolyn T. Dang The Pennsylvania State University

Sabrina D. Volpone University of Colorado Boulder

Elizabeth E. Umphress University of Washington

Committee:
Chair: Katina Sawyer
Member: Judith Clair

2023 Award Recipients

Paper Title:
Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work. Academy of Management Journal, 65(3), 720-748

Award Recipients

Angelica Leigh Duke University, Fuqua School of Business

Shimui Melwani UNC Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School

Committee Chair: Judy Clair

2022 Award Recipients

Paper:
The Hidden Cost of Prayer: Religiosity and the Gender Wage Gap

Award Recipients

Traci Sitzmann University of Colorado Denver

Elizabeth Campbell University of Minnesota

Committee Members:
Mukta Kulkarni

2021 Award Recipients

Paper:
Leading diversity: Towards a theory of functional leadership in diverse teams. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(10): 1101-1128.

Award Recipients

A.C. (Astrid) Homan University of Amsterdam

S. (Seval) Gündemir University of Amsterdam

Claudia Buengeler Kiel University

Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam

Committee Members:

  • Samantha Paustian-Underdahl (Chair), Florida State University
  • Andrew An-Chih Wang, China Europe International Business School
  • Winny Shen, York University
  • Brent Lyons, York University
  • John Lynch, University of Illinois - Chicago
  • Dave Arena, UT Arlington
  • Alexis Smith Washington, Oklahoma State University
  • Shanna Daniels, Florida State University
  • Marla Baskerville Watkins, Northeastern University

2020 Award Recipients

Paper:
Making the invisible visible: Paradoxical effects of intersectional invisibility on the career experiences of executive Black women. Academy of Management Journal, 62, 1705-1734.

Award Recipients

Alexis Nicole Smith Oklahoma State University

Marla Baskerville Watkins Northeastern University

Jamie Ladge Northeastern University

Pamela G. Carlton Springboard Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership

Committee Members:

  • Samantha Paustian-Underdahl (Chair)
  • Janet Barnes-Farrell
  • David Hekman
  • Andrew An-Chih Wang
  • Brent Lyons
  • John Lynch
  • Jessica Roddell
  • Dave Arena

2019 Award Recipients

Paper:
Blend in or stand out? Interpersonal outcomes to managing concealable stigmas at work. Journal of Applied Psychology

Award Recipients

John W. Lynch (Listed as: Lynch, J. W.)

Jessica B. Rodell (Listed as: Rodell, J. B.)

Committee Members:

  • Samantha Paustian-Underdahl (Chair)
  • David Baldridge
  • Janet Barnes-Farrell
  • David Hekman
  • Andrew An-Chih Wang
  • Winny Shen
  • Kristen Jones
  • Brent Lyons

2018 Award Recipients

Paper:
Disentangling the relationship between gender and work-family conflict: An integration of theoretical perspectives using meta-analytic methods. Journal of Applied Psychology

Award Recipients

Kristin M. Shockley

Winny Shen

Melanie M. DeNunzio

M. L. Arvan

E. A. Knudsen

Committee Members:

David Baldridge (Chair), Janet Barnes-Farrell, Joy Beatty, Stephan Boehm, Curtis Chan, David Hekman, Sonia Kang, Eden King, Samantha (Sam) Paustian-Underdahl, Andrew An-Chih Wang

2017 Award Recipients

Paper:
“Whitened resumes: Race and self-presentation in the labor market” Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(3), 469-502.

Award Recipients

S. K. Kang

K. A. DeCelles

A. Tilcsik

S. Jun

Committee Members:

  • David Baldridge (Chair) Oregon State University & National Technical Institute for the Deaf
  • Janet Barnes-Farrell, University of Connecticut (prior year chair)
  • Lilia Cortina, University of Michigan
  • David Hekman, University of Colorado
  • Eden King, George Mason University
  • Samantha Paustian-Underdahl, Florida International University
  • Andrew An-Chih Wang, National Sun Yat-sen University

2016 Award Recipients

Paper:
“Task segregation as a mechanism for within-job inequality: Women and men of the transportation security administration” - Administrative Science Quarterly

Award Recipients

Curtis K. Chan

Michel Anteby

Committee Members:

Janet Barnes-Farrell (Chair), University of Connecticut; David Baldridge, Oregon State University; Jeanette Cleveland, Colorado State University; Lilia Cortina, University of Michigan; Andrew An-Chih Wang, National Sun Yat-Sen University

2015 Award Recipients

Papers:

  • Stephan A. Boehm, Florian Kunze, & Heike Bruch — “Spotlight on Age-Diversity Climate: The Impact of Age-inclusive HR Practices on Firm-level Outcomes”, Personnel Psychology, 2014, 67, 667-704.
  • Samantha C. Paustian-Underdahl, Lisa Slattery Walker, & David J. Woehr — “Gender and Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness: A Meta-Analysis of Contextual Moderators”, Journal of Applied Psychology, 2014, 99, 1129-1145.

Committee Members:
Janet Barnes-Farrell (Chair), Alison Sheridan, Fernanda Wagstaff, David Baldridge, Andrew Wang

2014 Award Recipients

Paper:
“Access denied: Low mentoring of women and minority first-time directors and its negative effects on appointments to additional boards.” Academy of Management Journal, 56, #4, 1169-1198, 2013.

Award Recipients

Michael L. McDonald

James D. Westphal

Committee Members:
Maura Belliveau (Chair), Marla Baskerville Watkins, Martin Davidson, Danna Greenberg, Payal Kumar, Maria Fernanda Wagstaff

2013 Award Recipients

Paper:
“Crossing the threshold: The spillover of community racial diversity and diversity climate to the workplace.” Personnel Psychology, 65, 755-787, 2012.

Award Recipients

Belle Rose Ragins

Jorge A. Gonzalez

Kyle Ehrhardt

Romila Singh

Committee Members:
Stacy Blake-Beard (Chair), Maura Belliveau, Alison Cook, Sonia Ghumman, and Jawad Syed

2012 Award Recipients

Paper:
“Why Organizational and Community Diversity Matter: Representativeness and the Emergence of Incivility and Organizational Performance.” Academy of Management Journal, 54 (6), 2011.

Award Recipients

Eden B. King

Jeremy F. Dawson

Michael A. West

Veronica L. Gilrane

Chad I. Peddie

Lucy Bastin

Committee Members:
Orlando Richard (Chair), Lisa Nishii, David Baldridge, Consuelo Garcia, Sonia Ghumman, Christine Mahoney

2011 Award Recipients

Paper:
“An Examination of whether and how racial and gender biases influence customer satisfaction”

Award Recipients

David R. Hekman

Karl Aquino

Bradley P. Owens

Terence R. Mitchell

Pauline Schilpzand

Keith Leavitt

Committee Members:
Patrick McKay (Chair), Mustafa Ozbilgin, Jennifer Berdahl, Kathleen Campbell, Olivia (Mandy) O’Neill, Amy Randel

2010 Award Recipients

Paper:
“The role of context in work team diversity”

Award Recipients

Aparna Joshi

Hyuntak Roh

Committee Members:
David Kravitz (Chair), Judith Clair, Jorg Dietz, Lars-Eric Petersen, Susan Vinnicombe

2009 Award Recipients

Papers:

  • “Employment Discrimination: Authority Figures’ Demographic Preferences and Followers’ Affective Organizational Commitment.“
  • “Mean Racial-Ethnic Differences in Employee Sales Performance: The Moderating Role of Diversity Climate.”
Award Recipients

Lars-Eric Petersen (Listed with Jorge Dietz)

Jorge Dietz

Patrick McKay (Listed with Derek Avery and Mark Morris)

Derek Avery

Mark Morris

Committee Members:
David Harrison, Katherine Klein, Belle Rose Ragins, Hannah Riley-Bowles

2008 Award Recipients

Paper:
“What’s the difference? Diversity constructs as separation, variety, or disparity in organizations”. 2007, Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1199-1228.

Award Recipients

David Harrison

Katherine Klein

Committee Members:
Gayle Baugh (Chair), Jeff Greenhaus, Sherry Sullivan.

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