The Pasmore-Woodman Award


The Pasmore-Woodman Award

The Pasmore-Woodman Award honors and recognizes Dick Woodman for his contributions to the field of Organization Development and Change (ODC). The award also recognizes Bill Pasmore, a professor of Practice of Social Organizational Psychology at Columbia University. The award will be made to two or more colleagues who, over a sustained period of time, have managed to maintain a significant working relationship and have produced original and innovative ODC research.

NOMINATION PROCESS AND AWARD CRITERIA

The Pasmore-Woodman Award is presented annually. It is sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing, publishers of the ROCD series. The award has been established by the ODC Division in recognition of the contribution that Bill Pasmore and Dick Woodman have provided to the ODC field by creating the Research in Organizational Change and Development (ROCD) Annual series 25 years ago. Through this series these inspirational colleagues have created and nurtured a platform for sharing work by scholars and practitioners that has resulted in some landmark breakthroughs and insights and the triggering of new directions and streams of ODC research and practice.

In line with the spirit of Bill Pasmore and Dick Woodman’s work on the ROCD series, which has truly been a joint partnership, the award will be made to two or more colleagues who for a sustained period of time have managed to maintain a significant working relationship that has resulted in work that is original and innovative and that has informed ODC research and practice. The award can be made for work that is outstanding either in the sense of content or medium; that is the work could have been published in the form of traditional journal articles as well as monographs, edited collections, book series, ebooks, open access publications, films, etc.

Nominations should include a brief letter explaining the nature and extent of the nominee's contributions as they relate to the award criteria as well as examples of their work. To be eligible for consideration:

  • Only joint nominations can be considered that, in the opinion of the award committee, recognise the work of two or more people who, over a sustained period of time, have managed to maintain a significant working relationship.
  • The nominees’ work should have resulted in research that has made original and innovative contributions to the field of ODC.
  • Nominees’ work can be published in traditional journal articles as well as monographs, edited collections, book series, ebooks, open access publications, films, etc.
  • Award recipients will be required to participate in any media exposure reasonably requested by the Organization Development & Change Division or Academy of Management and will, if requested, provide a photograph of themselves for publicity purposes.

The award will be presented at the Annual ODC Division Business Meeting.

Nominations for Pasmore-Woodman Award will be assessed by a committee comprising the Chair-Elect of the Division, both Division Two-Year Representatives at-Large and one Previous Division Chair.