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Letter from Incoming Chair  

Hello GDO Colleagues and Friends,

I am thrilled to write to you as the Incoming Chair as we embark on a new chapter of our division. We have received approval from the Board of Governors to change our division name to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) with a corresponding revision to our domain statement. 2023 is also a momentous year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary since the founding of our division as the Status of Women Interest Group (SWIG). To mark this significant milestone, we are working to make the 2023 annual meeting in Boston the best one yet.

I encourage all of you to engage and participate in many of the division’s activities from the Global Ambassador’s Program to the Virtual Writing Workshops. We will continue with several important initiatives such as globalizing our division and the creation of an award for Best DEI Practices in B-Schools. In addition, I invite you to help plan and celebrate our division’s anticipated name change and mark the momentous occasion of our 50th anniversary. Please sign up for to be involved with a GDO Committee here.

GDO has always been a welcoming division and home for AOM members. Words and actions matter. As we evolve with our new division name and expand our domain of work, we reaffirm our commitment to social justice through the inclusion of equity-deserving groups in our research, teaching, and practice.

I invite all of us to come together to celebrate each other and showcase the excellence of our division. Please do not hesitate to write me if you have any thoughts, suggestions, or want to be involved.


Warmly,

Eddy Ng

August 15, 2022

Announcements/Statements
DEI Domain Statement Amendment Vote Announcement

Hello again DEI members

Thank you for taking the time to vote on the amendment to our new domain statement. I am pleased to report that 464 members (25%) voted, with 436 members (94%) voted in favor of the amendment. The approved amendment takes effect immediately. The updated domain statement is now posted on our division domain page. We look forward to submissions under our new division name and domain statement.

Eddy Ng

Queen’s University
DEI Division Chair

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Statement
 on the Dobbs Decision from the GDO Division Leadership
 
The Dobbs decision (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization) is sending ripples through the political, social, and cultural domains in the United States and beyond. We express solidarity with those voicing concerns about the implications of the Dobbs decision for women's rights.
Topics in our research domain are relevant for informing dialogue and public policy. We urge the GDO community to apply our expertise to support an evidence-based dialogue. More specifically, we encourage consideration of future research borne out of this situation that may support women's rights for health, safety, wellbeing, and careers.
While we recognize a diversity of perspectives on this sensitive issue, we reaffirm the importance of respecting individual decisions, ensuring equity, and protecting fundamental human rights.
- From the GDO division executive leadership team
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Statement on the Iran Movement from the DEI Division Leadership

 

In light of the recent protests for women’s rights in Iran, we stand with the women and girls, who have risen to reclaim their basic human rights and put an end to 44 years of oppression by the Iranian government. The death of #MahsaAmini, a 22-year-old woman who was arrested and fatally beaten by the “morality police” (Guidance Patrols) on September 16, 2022, has triggered unprecedented nation-wide protests with the chant of “women, life, freedom.” The Iranian regime has brutally cracked down on these protests, leading to countless people dead, including many children.

 

Many of us at DEI have devoted our careers to creating a more just world and advancing marginalized voices. Events like these are unfortunate reminders that our work is far from being done. We support the rights of women in Iran to freedom in the workplace and in society. We express our solidarity with the Iranian people and members of our community who have ties with Iran. 


- Initiated by Golshan Javadian (Morgan State University) and supported by the DEI division executive leadership team



 IMPORTANT UPDATES

GDO TO DEI ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello GDO/DEI Members

The vote is in! On behalf of the GDO Name and Domain Change Working Group, and as your division chair, it gives me tremendous pleasure to share with you that our division name and domain change proposal has been approved by a vote of the GDO membership. The Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) division is now the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) division of the Academy of Management.

I want to thank everyone who participated in the vote. We had very high levels of engagement with 563 members voting, representing approximately 30% of our membership. An overwhelming majority (92.9%) voted in favour of the name and domain* change. A minority (7.1%) opposed. This division name change will take effect immediately, and we are working with AOM’s central office to make sure that official references to the division are updated on the AOM website.

*There was a small error in the version of the domain statement that was posted for voting, regarding the use of "equal treatment and equitable outcomes" (which should have correctly been "equitable treatment and equal outcomes"). We are working with AOM to bring you an amendment vote in the coming weeks.

Leading up to the 2023 Annual Meeting in Boston, we are planning celebratory events to commemorate our 50th anniversary since our founding as the Women in Management (WIM) Interest Group in 1973. This is an important foundation from which we have grown and changed, and we very much honor that meaningful beginning. Please stay tuned for announcements in the coming weeks.

Thank you for your amazing engagement and participation in support of our Division. 


Eddy Ng
Queen’s University
Chair, DEI Division



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Announcements

  • VOTING OPEN: GDO Proposed Domain Name Change

    VOTING OPEN: GDO Proposed Domain Name Change

    Dear GDO Members

    As your current division chair, I invite you to take a few seconds to ratify the GDO Division’s proposed name change. You will receive an invitation to coast your vote from gdo@aom.org. The vote will take place between October 10 to 24, 2022.

    Our proposed new division name is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

    This strategic initiative is derived from our most recent five-year review, completed in 2020. The division is proposing a new name and updated domain statement (which was last revised in 2007) in an effort to reflect our members’ evolving scholarship and interests, and to grow our membership. 

    In our revised domain statement, we embrace diverse perspectives in organizational research and education to enable equal treatment and equitable outcomes, and we support social justice through the inclusion of marginalized voices in our members’ research, teaching, and practice. A full revised statement is provided below.

    After a thorough review process, our proposal received unanimous support from the other divisions and the Board of Governors. It is now your turn to provide a final endorsement. The bylaws require the approval of changes by a simple majority of those who cast a vote. 

    The deadline to vote is October 24, 2022. Please cast your vote now; it takes less than a minute. The committee tasked with this change has worked hard on this, with input and feedback from the division members. I hope you will acknowledge their efforts by taking a few moments to vote right now; we need your vote to conform with the AoM bylaws.

    Thank you for your participation and ongoing support of our Division.

    I hope to see you all at the Boston Annual Meeting as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of our founding as the Women in Management Interest Group.

     Eddy Ng
    Queen’s University
    Chair, GDO Division

     
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    Call for Participants

    GDO Writing Mentorship Workshop

    We invite applicants for the GDO Writing Mentorship Workshop, running from October to December 2022. The purpose of this workshop is to support early career researchers in developing manuscripts for conference and journal submissions, and to promote the development of high quality D&I research. We especially welcome participation from researchers outside of North America. The timing of this workshop is intended to support author's AOM conference submissions.

    The GDO writing mentorship workshop is a virtual session wherein submitting authors will get one-on-one feedback from Editors and/or Editorial Board members on their submitted papers. Authors will benefit from an understanding of how Editors and reviewers approach submitted manuscripts.

    Workshop papers should focus on D&I topics.

    Timeline and steps:

    1. Please send a one-page extended abstract by October 10, 2022 to the organizers. Note that the focus of submissions should be on D&I topics.
    2. Accepted authors will be notified by October 17, 2022
    3. Full-length papers are due by November 10, 2022.
    4. Each accepted paper will be assigned to one Editor or Editorial Board member who will give the author(s) one-on-one feedback via Zoom during late November or early December 2022.

    Please contact the event organizers with your questions:

    Mukta Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, mkulkarni@iimb.ac.in
    Joy Beatty, Eastern Michigan University, jbeatty9@emich.edu

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