Dear Colleagues,
The Southern Management Association's annual meeting time is drawing closer!
It?s November 9-12 at the Hyatt Regency in Savannah, Georgia. If you have
not registered for the meeting and/or made your hotel reservations yet, it
is definitely time to do so!
SMA REGISTRATION
We strongly encourage you to register for the meeting prior to arriving in
Savannah. To do so, just go to
http://southernmanagement.org/meetings/2011/reginfo.asp to access and
complete the online registration form.
HOTEL RESERVATIONS
If you haven?t already done so, please plan to make your hotel reservations
as soon as possible. Our conference hotel, the Hyatt Regency, is very close
to being sold out for SMA 2011. To access online reservations for the Hyatt
Regency, go to
http://southernmanagement.org/meetings/2011/hotelinfo.asp and
follow the directions there.
If you are unable to reserve a room at the conference hotel, SMA has
arranged an overflow hotel option with the Holiday Inn Express Historic
District (199 East Bay Street), adjacent and a block or so from the Hyatt
Regency. Holiday Inn is offering rates for SMA 2011 attendees of $136
single/double for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings and $176
single/double for Friday and Saturday evenings. To make reservations,
please call the hotel directly at 912-231-9000. Ask for "Reservations" and
then "the SMA 2011 group rate". The cutoff date for making your
reservations is Monday, October 10, 2011.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
The preliminary SMA 2011 Program Schedule is available online at:
http://www.southernmanagement.org/meetings/2011/program/
Note that this is a preliminary version of the program, and that we will
continue to make some additions and minor revisions to the program over the
next couple of weeks. So, please bookmark the program link and visit it
from time to time to get the latest updates on the program!
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
The program has many outstanding competitive paper sessions as well as
interesting workshops and symposia. There are also a variety of teaching-
and methods-related professional development sessions offered before and
throughout the conference. See the SMA website and the preliminary program
for more information and note that some of these require advance
registration. Some of these sessions include:
? OBTS Teaching Bootcamp: Wednesday, November 9th
? Running a Center, Institute, or Program. Who does it and why?
Thursday, November 10th (Lucy Gilson, Jim Combs, Steve Michael, Rich Dino,
Dave Ketchen, and Melenie Lankau)
? Advising the Advisors: A Panel Session for Faculty Working with
Ph.D. students. Thursday, November 10th (Jessica Rodell, Jason Colquitt,
Jerry Ferris, and Maureen Ambrose)
? Alternatives to Difference Scores: Polynomial Regression and
Response Surface Methodology. Thursday, November 10th (Jeff Edwards)
? Teaching Excellence Workshop: Thursday, November 10th (Talya Bauer,
Kevin Lowe, Jeremy Short)
? Testing Models Involving Mediation, Moderation, and Mediated-
Moderation. Friday, November 11th (Lisa Schurer Lambert)
? New Approaches for Evaluating Latent Variable Relations Friday,
November 11th (Larry Williams)
? Conducting Meta-Analysis. Friday, November 11th (Jim Combs, Russell
Crook, Samuel Todd, and David Woehr)
? Running multilevel analyses with R. Friday, November 11th (Hetty
van Emmerik, Hannes Guenter, and Bert Schreurs)
? Meet the Editors from JOM, AMJ, AMR, and JOB. Friday, November 11th
(Deborah Rupp, Michelle Duffy, Annette Ranft, Jason Colquitt, and Neal
Ashkanasy)
NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION
We want to specifically invite new SMA members and those new to the
conference to join the officers for a get-together at 5:15 pm on Wednesday,
November 9th to learn more about SMA, its activities, its leadership, and
how to get more involved. Please join us.
FOOD AND PARTIES
SMA 2011 will have great receptions each night and a special movie-themed
party on Friday night. Join us for these fun events.
This will be a great program and a great meeting in Savannah. We hope to
see you there!
Tim Barnett
SMA Program Chair
Mark Gavin
SMA President
SMA 2011 Meeting
http://southernmanagement.org/meetings/2011/