Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE)

The Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) division of the Academy of Management invites nominations, including self-nominations, for the 2025 ONE Early Career Teaching Award. 

This award recognizes and celebrates teaching accomplishments in the classroom, development of educational materials, and/or scholarship on teaching on ONE topics by educators in their first 1 to 8 years of teaching. The award aims to encourage early career educators’ efforts to be effective in teaching topics related to ONE. The award advances the teaching aims of the ONE division by promoting learning about the relationship between organizations and the natural environment. This significant relationship needs improvement to support the continued existence, development, and management of human organizations and societies. The pollution of air, water, and land, and the depletion of both renewable and nonrenewable resources as a result of the actions of formal organizations are the most obvious manifestations of these relationships. Future generations require relevant education to support them in meeting these challenges and the current generation of educators can, therefore, support change to more sustainable practices.

The Early Career Teaching Award will be given to an educator in their first 1 to 8 years of full-time teaching as recognition of their teaching and development of teaching materials based on their record within the past 8 years (calendar years 2017-2024 inclusive) which must demonstrate teaching expertise and preferably include teaching materials development (e.g., syllabi, course materials). Individuals in full-time teaching roles (position must be at least 50% teaching) including lecturers, visiting faculty, professors, or management educators (working for higher education institutions) may apply. 

Selection Criteria

• A record of effective teaching on ONE domain topics within the last 8 years demonstrated by course or curriculum development, teaching practice, community engagement (e.g., work with practitioners and/or in entrepreneurial/experiential learning/local community settings with students to promote environmentally sensitive policies and practices), and/or other innovative teaching approaches to deliver ONE domain topics
• OPTIONAL: Development of additional teaching material (e.g., case studies, videos, etc.)

Eligibility

• Any current ONE Division Academy of Management member in the 1 to 8 years of full-time teaching who, during that period, has taught at least 4 courses (the same course can be taught multiple times)
• The selected winner must agree to the following obligations:
• Participation in each one ONE Teaching Award professional development workshop (PDW) or symposium in 2026 and 2027
• Participation in the 2026 ONE Teaching Award selection process

Nomination Procedure

The package should contain the following:

1. Letter of nomination detailing accomplishments and reasons for the nomination (maximum 5 pages)
2. Curriculum vita (abbreviated to highlight relevant teaching activities from the 8-year period; maximum 5 pages)
3. One sample syllabus from a ONE-themed course or class (abbreviated, if needed) (maximum 15 pages)
4. One letter of recommendation from former students or colleagues attesting to the impact of the applicants’ teaching (maximum 1 page)
5. IF AVAILABLE: Course evaluations
6. IF AVAILABLE: One ONE-themed educational/pedagogical publication or teaching material. Additional publications can be listed in the curriculum vita.

The nomination package should be uploaded as a single PDF file here Eastern time zone.

For questions, please contact Georg Reischauer, Head of Teaching Committee. 

Selection Committee

• Members of the ONE Teaching Committee (Georg Reischauer, Divya Singhal)
• Last year’s ONE Early Career Teaching Award winner (Anna Kim)
• Member of the ONE Executive Committee (Chad Carlos)

Timeline

• April 30, 2025: deadline for submissions, 11:59 pm Eastern time zone.
• July 2025: The winner will be announced at the ONE business meeting during the Academy of Management Meeting.