OBTS Links

The Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (OBTS) will have a home page soon. Here are some related links and society information.

• The OBTC Ring Home Page This is a Ring for Management professors' home pages. The term OBTC comes from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, which is dedicated to improving teaching methods, but this ring is in no way associated with nor does it necessarily represent the views of the OBTC. Further, the Ring is not limited to those who teach Organizational Behavior only, but rather all areas of Management.
  
• Hub of the OBTC Ring The idea of a webring is to provide a mechanism for someone to move from one member of the ring to the next, thereby eventually visiting every site in the ring.   This page is the "hub" of the OBTC Ring.  Here you can follow the "spokes" out to any of the sites in the ring or e-mail any of the ring members.
  
• Management Archive information on the OBTS Network. The OBTS has, for several years, conducted a listserv on OB topics. This site provides information on how to join.
  
• Academy of Management OBNet Offered by the OB Division of the National Academy of Management;  includes information, news, and discussion..

Conferences

• OBTC '99 PAPER DEADLINE: January 15, 1999 Coordinators: David M. Boje & Grace Ann Rosile, Management Department, College of Business Administration & Economics, Box 30001, MSC 3DJ, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001; Voice 505.646.5684; Fax 505.646.1372; Email garosile@aol.com; conference@nmsu.edu
  
• OBTC 99 Conference Themes & special features
  
• OBTC '98 June 10-13, University of LaVerne, California EVOLVING ROLES:  THE CHANGING  NATURE OF   TEACHING AND LEARNING 
  
• OBTC '97 June 11–14, 1997 The Organization Behavior Teaching Society invites you participate in the 24th annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference (OBTC) on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Anyone interested in the "organizational disciplines" of management, organization theory and related fields will find this conference useful. For further information, please contact: Eric H. Neilsen, OBTC '97 Conference Office, Enterprise Hall, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7235. Upon registering, a $100 deposit is required.
  
• OBTC '96 "The Organizational Behavior Teaching Society invites you to participate in the 23rd annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference (OBTC '96) to be held at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, USA on June 5-8 1996. Our conference activities will take us on an intellectual and spiritual journey as we explore ways we can be innovative, collaborative and joyous in our teaching. Rather than coming to this conference to get answers, we will come to ask questions and discuss controversies, share ideas, and leave enriched." For more information, contact Daniel P. Moore, Member of OBTC '96 Committee, (603) 535-2525 or email danm@psc.plymouth.edu

Mission of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (distributed by board at 1998 LaVerne OBTC)

Teaching is a noble calling on the boundary between art and science, articulating intellectual creativity, grounded in theory, with a focus on enhancing and developing others in the classroom and beyond. Teaching is scholarship that comprehends inquiry into methods, theories, and techniques for improving learning for all engaged in this enterprise; and the dissemination of the outputs of these inquiries. Teachers of organizational behavior further stand at the boundary of theory and practice, bridging from academic research to organizational application.

The mission of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society is to promote the importance and enhance the quality of teaching and learning of organizational behavior and related management disciplines regionally, nationally, and globally.

We will take a leadership role in ensuring that teaching and learning activities receive the respect and support they deserve at the public policy, organizational, classroom, and student levels. We will assume responsiblity for development and dissemination of teaching and learning resources, including attention to best practices and cutting edge developments on identified social challenges.

We will actively and authentically engage those who currently and in the past have particpated in Society activities, and identify, invite, and make welcome into our community those who share our passion for teaching and learning but have not, as yet, discovered our society.

We will create an enabling environment in which teachers at all stages of their careers can reaffirm the relational nature of adult learning and the values essential to maintaining the integrity of this process, in particular, those of mutual trust, respect, self-reflexive dialogue, shared risk taking, personal growth, and shared commitment to the highest human ideals.

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06/26/98