The Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award Module 2, Class 2 A Teaching Module Developed by the Curriculum Task Force of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network

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The Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award Module 2, Class
2 A Teaching Module Developed by the
Curriculum Task Force of the Sloan Work and
Family Research Network
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How Does Information Get into the Knowledge Base?

• New information published in
• Working papers
• Reports
• Books
• Scholarly Journals
• Each has advantages and disadvantages associated
  with them.

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Peer Review Process Knowledge Building

• Description Manuscripts submitted for
  publication are reviewed and critiqued by
  scholars with expertise in both content area
  and/or methods used by authors.
• Purpose To ensure that articles published in
  academic journals reflect minimum standards of
  quality

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Peer Review Process
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• 1. Author becomes familiar with explicit and
  implicit expectations for articles published.
• 2. Author drafts manuscript and submits it to
  journal editor.
• 3. Editor sends manuscript to 2-3 scholars
  (typically).
• 4. Usually, editor sends guidelines for review
  to reviewers.
• 5. Reviewers comment on characteristics of
  article including content, structure, clarity,
  and extent to which article makes a contribution
  to the body of literature. Reviewers recommend
  that editors accept manuscript (as is or with
  minor corrections), that editors reject the
  manuscript, or that the author make substantial
  revisions to manuscript in line with the
  recommendations made by reviewers.
• 6. If the author is asked to revise and
  re-submit, author may need to re-write sections
  of manuscript and/or conduct additional analyses.
• 7. Hopefully, manuscript is published.

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Why Do Awards Contribute to the Building of the
Knowledge Base?

• Awards for excellence can
• Reinforce (and make explicit) standards of
  excellence for a specific discipline or field
• Engage the interest of scholars who review the
  publications and then nominate some for the award
• Provide a mechanism to focus the attention of
  scholars in the discipline/field to articles that
  might not have been noticed by them

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Standards of Excellence for Assessing the Quality
of an Article

• Connection to theoretical perspective(s)
• Connection to previous empirical studies
• Rigor of research design (including sampling)
• Operationalization of key concepts
• Selection of appropriate measures
• Use of appropriate analytic techniques
• Generalizability of findings
• Contribution to knowledge base
• Important implications for future research,
  policy-making, practice
• Clarity and relevance of information
  contained in each section of the
• article
• Article well-written
• Not restricted to a particular method

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Purpose of the Kanter Award

• This award raises awareness of high quality
  work-family research among the scholar,
  consultant and practitioner communities. It
  fosters debate about what the standards of
  quality for work-family research should be, and
  ultimately will raise those standards. And it
  identifies the best of the best on which to
  base future research.

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Procedure for the Kanter Award

• Structure of the Review Committee
• Journals Reviewed
• Qualifying Articles
• Three round peer review process (nominees, first
  round, second round)
• The criteria used by the reviewers is posted on
  the web pages of the Kanter Award
• http//www.cfs.purdue.edu/CFF/pages/kanter/award_p
  rocedures.html.

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Typical Structure of Research Articles

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Review of State of Knowledge
• Research Questions
• Methods (sample, measures, analytic techniques)
• Findings
• Discussion
• Conclusion (limitations, implications)
• References