Human Resources Division (HR)

2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions 

Program Chair: Corine Boon, University of Amsterdam 

Specific Domain

The Human Resources Division is dedicated to understanding, identifying, and improving the effectiveness of HR practices to facilitate organizational competitiveness nationally or internationally, encourage individual growth and development, and enhance individual performance, work-related attitudes, and well-being. The Division emphasizes the study of human capital and HR management practices at the individual, group, organizational, societal, and cross-cultural levels of analysis and their impact on outcomes critical to the organization, its employees and their representatives, and all its stakeholders (whether future, present, or past). Major topics include a broad spectrum of issues pertaining to the recruitment, selection, allocation, development, utilization, evaluation, compensation, and retention of people as resources in work organizations and pertaining to the employment relationship. 

Paper and Symposia Submissions

Both scholarly Papers and Symposium submissions will be considered for the scholarly program. Details of the requirements for each submission type are outlined in the Scholarly Submission Guidelines. All sessions will be hosted in-person on-site in Copenhagen. All scholarly sessions will take place Sunday, 27 July through Tuesday, 29 July 2025. Keep in mind that developing symposia (including panel discussions) with broad appeal to 3 divisions increases the chance of having a symposium accepted. When submitting a paper, please also remember to sign up to review for the HR Division. 

New: Poster Submissions

This year we introduce a new opportunity for presenter participation: poster submissions. Poster sessions encourage open dialogue and are a great way for researchers to share their work in a less formal setting, receive immediate feedback on their work, and for networking with multiple attendees and presenters at AOM. A poster submission (extended abstract) can only be submitted to one division. Details of the requirements are outlined in the Scholarly Submission Guidelines. Poster presentations will take place during one-hour in-person sessions at a highly visible location at the Annual Meeting, from Friday, 25 July 2025, through Tuesday, 29 July 2025.

Submission Process

Submissions for the HR Division Scholarly Program for 2025 should be made through the AOM Submission Center (link below). The Submission Center opening announcement will take place early December. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5). Earlier submissions are encouraged. Note that there is limited space on the scholarly program; consequently, not all submissions will be accepted.

Division Awards

Awards include:

• Herbert Heneman Jr. Career Achievement Award
• Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award
• Early Career Achievement Award
• Distinguished HR Executive Award
• Dave Ulrich Impact Award
• Scholarly Achievement Award
• International HRM Scholarly Research Award
• Employee Participation and Ownership Award
• Best Convention Paper Award
• Best Student Convention Paper Award
• Best Dissertation Award
• Dissertation Grants
• Innovative Teaching Award

More details on award eligibility criteria and the nomination process can be found on the HR Division website.