The Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division offers an annual award for outstanding scholarship.  Sponsored by Sage Publications, this award recognizes a present or past member of the division who has made significant scholarly contributions advancing our knowledge of Gender and Diversity in Organizations. 

Scholarly contributions include the creation and dissemination of new knowledge in the form of conceptual, applied, empirical and/or theoretical works.  This award is given for an accumulated body of work.

Past winners include: Nancy Adler, Kay Bartol, Marta Cálas and Linda Smircich, Robin Ely, Jeffrey Greenhaus, Laura Graves, Barbara Gutek, Alison Konrad, Ellen Kossek, Carol Kulik, Laurie Larwood, Karen Lyness, Dorothy Moore, Saroj Parasuraman, Gary Powell, Belle Rose Ragins, Uma Sekaran, and Linda Stroh.

Criteria for consideration includes:  1) the breath or overall scope of the nominee’s work with consideration to his/her contribution to gender and diversity; 2) the depth of the nominee’s research in terms of richness in the exploration of one or more gender and diversity topics; and, 3) impact or significance of research in raising important questions and providing direction for future research in the gender and diversity domain.

This is a wonderful way to honor your colleagues and recognize important work.