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About Dr. Chris Anderson Chris Anderson has had a long and distinguished career as a behavioral scientist. Trained in the field of animal learning and motivation, throughout the late 60s, 70s, and 80s, Chris has made important contributions to the field of aversive conditioning and learning by examining both the behavioral and physiological basis of such phenomena as fear, avoidance behavior, punishment learning, and aggression using animal research models. However, in the late 70s, as federal research monies for animal research became constricted and animal research facilities became much more difficult and costly to maintain, Chris turned his attention to the field of OBM. While some animal work continued in his lab into the 80s, an increasing portion of his academic focus turned to the ways in which basic laboratory principles of learning and motivation, particularly those derived from behavior analytic research, could be applied to understand work performance within companies. He was on the forefront of a growing realization that the organizational sector could support its own private research funding and provide a behaviorally-rich laboratory-like environment for looking at important questions using careful and systematic research procedures. From the late 70s on, Chris and and his students have conducted over 100 research projects in organizational settings. When it would have been very easy and lucrative for Chris to act a consultant to these organizations, garnering substantial fees, instead he opted steadfastly to use these opportunities to plan and implement systematic behavior analytic research to (a) further our understanding of how work performance and organizational success can be influenced and (b) train graduate and undergraduate students. In lieu of consulting fees, Chris has done multi-year research projects with organizations all for only modest amounts usually treated as research grants through Notre Dame. Most of the direct costs from these grants have gone to support student and research expenses. In this regard, Chris has been the consummate OBM researcher. This research award is therefore appropriately named and designed to promote and foster a pure approach to scientific inquiry focused on furthering the OBM research agenda. _________________________________________________________________
1. The primary researcher/author must be a graduate student of good standing in a graduate degree program in psychology or a related discipline. The research should focus on topics of relevance to business, industry, or other organizational settings (although the proposed research itself may be of an applied or more basic nature). 2. Both the graduate student and a faculty mentor named in the proposal must each be a member of the OBM Network at the time of application submission. Proposal Content Use the proposal format described below to guide the preparation of your Chris Anderson Research Award application. This will allow reviewers to make informed judgments regarding the potential of each proposed project to add valuable information to the knowledge base in Organizational Behavior Management and to make comparisons regarding such value across proposals. The numbers in parentheses represent the maximum number of pages that can be devoted to each section of the proposal. Please adhere to these limits. Use APA style throughout your proposal. 1. Title Page: Include the title of the project and the contact information (names, affiliations, telephone numbers, mailing addresses, and email addresses) of both the graduate researcher and the faculty mentor. (1) 2. Research Hypothesis: Clearly describe the specific research question you propose to answer, the rationale for why this question is appropriate for funding through the OBM Network’s Chris Anderson Research Award program, and the value of the anticipated findings in addressing a gap in the existing OBM knowledge base. (1) 3. Literature Review: In a somewhat abbreviated fashion, describe the major findings in the current literature that are related to the proposed research question. Although a comprehensive literature review is not required, the manner in which your proposed project will result in adding to the relevant knowledge base should be apparent. Do use APA style to cite references as appropriate. (2) 4. Research Methodology: In this section, you should:
5. Anticipated Findings and Implications: Clearly describe the anticipated outcomes and implications of the results of your proposed research. (1) 6. References: Include a reference section that lists all the references cited in your proposal. Again, please use APA style throughout. (1) 7. Timeline/Budget: Estimate the start and completion date of each major component of the project and indicate how research award funds would be used during each component. (1) Award Process/Schedule 1. Upon receipt of proposals, the OBM Director will forward three hard copies of the proposal (minus the title page) to the Chris Anderson Research Award Committee Chair (currently Dr. Charles R. Crowell) retaining one copy for OBM Network files. 2. The Chair will recruit two additional readers from the current membership of the OBM Network (excluding student members) who are not affiliated with the primary researcher or faculty mentor. 3. Recommendations of the three readers will be forwarded to the Chair no later than February 18, 2008, who will immediately inform the OBM Network Director, in writing, of the award decision. Three possible decisions may be made including award granted, award granted pending specific proposal revisions, and award not granted. 4. The OBM Network Director will immediately inform the applicant of the review decision. 5. The primary researcher will return written acknowledgement of the award decision, including revisions if necessary, to the Chair no later than March 5, 2008. 6. The Chair will announce all awards and award all funds at the annual OBM Network business meeting held during the ABA annual convention each May. 7. All awards will be up to the amount of $700. The number of awards given in any one year will be dependent upon budgetary considerations. It is possible that, due to lack of appropriate proposals, no awards may be granted in any one year. 1. Subsequent to receipt of funding, the successful applicant must inform the OBM Network Director (currently John Austin) of any changes in research methodology that alter the way in which Chris Anderson Research Award funds are spent during the study. 2. Acceptance of a Chris Anderson Research Award obligates the successful applicant to submit the results of the funded study for presentation at either a future Association for Behavior Analysis annual convention (held each May) or a future Florida Association for Behavior Analysis/Organizational Behavior Management conference (held every other January). 3. Acceptance of a Chris Anderson Research Award obligates the successful applicant to submit a research manuscript to the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management for review, if the data obtained in the study are of publishable quality. Submission Guidelines/Deadline 1. Hard copy: If submitting your proposal in hard copy, one copy of the title page and four copies of the remainder of the proposal must be submitted to: Dr. John Austin 2. Electronic copy: If submitting your proposal electronically, the complete proposal must be submitted as a Microsoft Word attachment to john.austin@wmich.edu. 3. Proposals must be received by the OBM Network Director no later than January 28, 2008.
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