The Center for Leadership at Florida International University, in partnership with the Network of Leadership Scholars of the Academy of Management, is pleased to announce the Alvah H. Chapman Outstanding Dissertation Award.  This award honors an individual whose dissertation makes an outstanding contribution to the field of leadership.  The recipient of the award will receive $3,000, be honored at the Network of Leadership Scholars meeting at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, and be supported to deliver an invited presentation at Florida International University as part of the Center's Leadership Lecture Series.

Criteria for Submissions

To be considered for this award:

• The paper must be based on a doctoral dissertation completed within the past two years.

• The student must be first author and will be the recipient of the award.

To be considered outstanding, the paper should:

• Make a contribution towards advancing new ideas or new frameworks of thinking in the field of leadership.

• Strongly incorporate relevant theoretical and empirical literature.

• Demonstrate appropriate analysis and interpretation of the research results.

• Offer interesting inferences regarding the theoretical and applied implications of the findings and suggest promising directions for future research.

• Logically, succinctly, and clearly present the ideas.

Only abridged versions (20 pages) of the dissertation will be reviewed for this award. Submissions are due by April 30, 2012. The winner will be notified by June 30, 2012. Additional guidelines for submission and information about the award can be found at: http://lead.fiu.edu/research/award.

_Details regarding the ASTD Dissertation Award to be announced later this spring here.

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