Leadership Scholarship MIG

Open Meeting Presentation

16th Annual ILA Global Conference

San Diego, CA

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Leadership Scholarship MIG

• The MIG for Scholarship provides a forum for scholars and practitioners from all disciplines and fields to interact and mutually further our understanding of leadership, and to disseminate the results of leadership scholarship.

• Collaborate with scholars and researchers to better understand the study of leadership and to disseminate the results of leadership research.

LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP MIG

To Increase the Scholarly Rigor and Relevance of ILA

Last Year’s MIG Meeting

I. Submit your best work ILA 2014 San Diego

II. Convince a colleague to do the same

III. Improve rigor and relevance of scholarship through dialogue/education

• 1036 LS MIG members! • 39% of ILA members are

associated with LS MIG• 447 LS MIG members

attending ILA-San Diego

1. Submit your Best Work ILA San Diego2. Convince a colleague to submit their best work.

1. Submit your Best Work ILA San Diego2. Convince a colleague to submit their best work.

Most Publishable Paper Award!

• £100 worth of books from SAGE

• Paper fast-tracked for publication in Leadership

• Dejun ‘Tony’ Kong

• “Strengths use, controlling supervision, and job outcomes across cultures’

3. Improve rigor and relevance of scholarship through education

• Dialogue on what we mean by ‘rigor and relevance’

• Pre-conference methodology sessions/workshops

• Webinar workshops on rigor and relevance

Starting the Dialogue

Rigor1. theory-based or theory-

generating,

2. has testable hypothesis and critical analysis,

3. employs valid measures and ethical data collection

4. produces converging evidence resulting from multiple studies or analyses utilizing different methodologies and populations.

Relevance5. problem centrality

6. future focus

7. reality-based methods

Small Group Discussion

1. What is rigorous scholarship? What does it mean to you? What should it mean to ILA?

2. What is relevant scholarship? What does it mean to you? What should it mean to ILA?

Next Year – Barcelona!

SUBMISSIONS• Refereed papers (2500

word maximum), symposia, posters

• Idea for a methodologically-based presentation? Contact Dave Rosch (dmrosch@Illinois.edu)

Upcoming months• Volunteer to review proposals for Barcelona– How-to information sent out next month

– Assigned no more than 3 short papers

– Critical to the success of next year’s scholarship-related presentations

– Review work done in Feb/March 2015

Other MIG improvement ideas?