Hello all,
Below is a tele-seminar for people interested in getting in and advancing their academic careers. You may want to forward it to your students and colleagues.
Best,
Wei
Wei Zheng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Human Resource Development
201E Gabel Hall
Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Phone: 815-753-9314
Fax: 815-753-3355
Email:
wzheng@niu.edu******************************
Dear all,
We are very happy to inform you that Dr. Anne Tsui from Arizona State University (AOM board member) will share with us her personal experiences and insights in navigating and succeeding in the academia, on March 1, 2010 @ 7pm central time (5pm Pacific, 6pm Mountain, 8pm Eastern, March 2 @ 9am Beijing time), in a tele-seminar organized by the Asian Women Professionals' Network.
Dr. Anne S. Tsui is the Motorola Professor of International Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Peking University, Xi'an Jiaotung University, and Fudan University in China. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has held faculty positions at Duke University, University of California, Irvine, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She has served as a member the Academy of Management Board of Governors, the 14th Editor of the Academy of Management Journal, and was elected a Fellow of the Academy in 1997. Beyond the Academy, she spearheaded the founding of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) in 2002 with a mission to advance management research in and on China.
In conjunction with IACMR and its missions, she established the journal Management and Organization Review, dedicated to publishing research on Chinese management. Her research interests include management and leadership effectiveness, employee-organizational relationship, demographic diversity, and social networks in the Chinese context. She is a recipient of the 1998 Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award, the 1998 Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award, and the Scholarly Achievement Award from the Human Resource Division of the Academy. Her book with Barbara Gutek, Demographic Differences in Organizations: Current Research and Future Directions (1999), was a finalist for the 2000 Terry Book Award. Dr. Tsui is among the top 100 most cited researchers in business, economics and management and winner of the 2008 Center for Creative Leadership Walter F. Ulmer, Jr. Applied Leadership Research Award.
In this tele-seminar, Dr. Tsui will share with us:
* her personal journey navigating and succeeding in the US academia
* how she has overcome barriers and taken risks
* her insights on how to be an effective leader
* tips on how to find mentors and role models
* her suggestions on how to realize our personal potentials
We look forward to "seeing" you at the tele-seminar!
Executive committee
Asian Women Professionals' Network