Monday, November 17, 2008

Wilder professors receive ‘Best Article of the Year Award’

Congratulations to Wilder professors Susan Gooden and Blue Wooldridge who recently received the 2007 Journal of Public Affairs and Education (JPAE) Best Article of the Year Award for their publication, “Integrating Social Equity into the Core of the Human Resource Management Course.” Gooden, an associate professor of public administration and director of graduate programs and Wooldridge, a professor of public and non-profit-management the, were recognized at a luncheon hosted by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration’s annual conference held in Columbia, South Carolina in October.   Receipt of the JPAE Best Article of the Year Award is a prestigious honor, as JPAE is widely regarded as the premiere publication of influence for experienced educator-specialists as well as an important source of reflection on the professional practice. Nominated articles are rigorously reviewed through an editorial process for regular publication and recommended by an editorial committee to the journal’s past and present editors-in-chief, who make final selection.   “Integrating Social Equity into the Core of the Human Resource Management Course,” was first printed in the winter 2007 issue of JPAE, Volume 13, No. 2 and draws on the authors’ teaching experience to describe how Human Resource Management (HRM) professors can enhance graduate student’s social equity competencies through the use of informal “HR dialogues.” Human resource courses are uniquely positioned to within the graduate curriculum to increase equity awareness because they so often give attention to related topics such as due process, discrimination, sexual harassment, and work-life policies. In the article, Gooden and Wooldridge assert that dialogue and role play around sensitive topics allows students to develop the managerial competencies needed to confront the real-world social equity tensions they are likely to encounter.

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