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Transition Tom Mawhinney This, my first contribution to the OBM Network Newsletter, is intended to share with members of our community some news that I consider positive. (The title of this announcement is the same as that of the first editorial I wrote upon assuming my position as JOBM’s Editor back in 1985.) Commencing with publication of JOBM 27(3), John Austin will function as the sole Editor of JOBM and I will assume a position on the Editorial Board, for a time to be determined by the Editor. Between now and then, however, John will, de facto, be the sole editor while I will be clearing my desk of any work for which I remain responsible. This state of affairs is a consequence of my decision, following discussions with John and Bill Cohen, cofounder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief and leader of The Haworth Press, Inc., to relinquish my responsibilities as one of JOBM’s current coeditors. In my communications with Bill Cohen I made the following remarks about my decision, “I recall a former colleague when leaving a senior post saying: ‘My departure will make no more ripples than slowly removing a finger from a glass of water.’” Informing members of the OBM community also holding memberships in the OBM Network will, I hope, contribute to a smooth transition from my Coeditorship of the Journal to John’s Editorship. Also, in support of a smooth transition, I have asked the OBM Network leadership to permit me to make very brief remarks about the transition during the OBM Network business meeting at ABA. The quid pro quo for this favor was my promise not to say anything outlandish or provocative. Whether any of what I may have to say will be considered humorous, on the other hand, will likely be highly context dependent. Surely, nothing I might intend to be humorous will rival Alyce Dickinson’s ambush-roasting of “moi” at the 2005 FABA/OBM meetings on the occasion marking my nearly 20 years of service as Editor/Coeditor of JOBM. Please accept my thanks for the strong support of JOBM among OBM Network members in the past and, hopefully, continued support during a long and productive future. Tom Mawhinney Tom (C.) Mawhinney (BA, MS University of South Florida (Tampa) and Ph.D. The Ohio State University) is a Professor teaching management courses in the University of Detroit Mercy’s College of Business and Administration in Detroit Michigan, following associate professorships at Indiana University (Bloomington) and Butler University (Indianapolis) where he began his Editorship of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management (JOBM) in 1985. In 2000 he became a Co-editor of JOBM when he invited John Austin to share the editorship. A member of the Association for Behavior Analysis (MABA when he joined in 1976), the American Psychological Association and the OBM Network of ABA, he was awarded Fellow status by APA Division 25, Behavior Analysis, largely for his contributions to behavior analysis and applied behavior analysis as they were expressed in JOBM during his editorship extant 1994. His theoretical and research articles concerning organizational culture, work motivation, intrinsic motivation, performance and leadership, viewed from his behavior analytic vantage point, appear in articles published in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology, JOBM, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Performance Improvement Quarterly and Psychological Reports. He co-edited and contributed a chapter on leadership to the Handbook of Organizational Performance: Behavior Analysis and Management (2001) with Carl Johnson and Bill Redmon, from which the royalties are donated to the OBM Network of ABA.
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