Career Information

The PhD in Business Administration with a major in Management has been designed to assure successful careers. It is hoped that the formal and informal activities of doctoral students will convey the requisite background for successful careers. Several components of that background, not previously covered in the Handbook, are discussed here to further assure that success.

Professional Associations
At a minimum, each PhD student in Management should join the Academy of Management. The Departmental PhD Coordinator has a supply of the "Application for Membership" form. For doctoral students, a student associate membership is available for $42.50 each year for four years. Thereafter, the regular membership fee is $85 per year. Members receive:

1. Academy of Management Journal, 6 issues per year;
2. Academy of Management Review, 4 issues per year;
3. Academy of Management Executive, 4 issues per year;
4. Academy Newsletter, 4 issues per year;
5. Academy Placement Roster, 2 issues per year; and
6. two divisional memberships.

Depending upon the area of concentration within the management major, some of the other professional associations that might be of interest include: American Economics Association, American Psychological Association, American Sociological Association, Decision Sciences Institute, Industrial Relations Research Association, and Strategic Management Society. The geographically focused professional associations of potential interest are likely to include: Southwest Division of the Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, Midwest Division of the Academy of Management, Eastern Academy of Management, and Western Academy of Management.

Placement
The Department of Management receives announcements of job openings from other institutions. These are posted in the entry area to 433 Wehner. Doctoral students are encouraged to examine these and to discuss them with faculty members.

Regional and national meetings of professional organizations conduct placement activities specifically for doctoral students. Ads about openings and/or applicants are carried in newsletters or in special listings that are made available to members. For example, the Academy of Management issues a placement roster twice a year and conducts a major placement activity at its Annual meeting.

The faculty also use direct contact with colleagues at other institutions to assist doctoral students in placement. This is one of the most effective placement resources available. The extensive contacts of the Texas A&M management faculty will be very valuable to its graduates.

Journals
Students should familiarize themselves with numerous and varied journals soon after beginning their doctoral programs. In general, the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review will be used by all students at some point in their programs. Other journals may or may not be used depending upon the student's area of concentration and research interests. The following list of potentially relevant journals is offered as a guide. Of course, particular research areas may involve journals other than these.

• Academy of Management Executive

• Academy of Management Journal

• Academy of Management Review

• Administrative Science Quarterly

• American Business Law Journal

• American Economic Review

• American Journal of Psychology

• American Journal of Sociology

• American Psychological Measurement

• American Psychologist

• American Sociological Review

• Applied Psychological Measurements

• Arbitration Journal

• Behavioral Science

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• Business and Public Affairs

• Business and Society

• Business and Society Review

• Business Economics

• Business Horizons

• Business Law Review

• California Management Review

• Canadian Journal of Administrative Science

• Columbia Journal of World Business

• Compensation and Benefits Review

• Decision Sciences

• Educational and Psychological Measurement

• Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

• Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

• Futurist

• Group and Organization Studies

• Group Process

• Harvard Business Review

• Human Organization

• Human Relations

• Human Resource Management

• Human Resource Management Review

• Human Resource Planning Journal

• Human Systems Management

• Industrial Management

• Industrial and Labor Relations Review

• Industrial Relations

• International Journal of Industrial Organization

• International Management

• International Review of Applied Psychology

• International Studies of Management and Organization

• Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

• Journal of Applied Psychology

• Journal of Applied Social Psychology

• Journal of Business (Chicago)

• Journal of Business (Seton Hall)

• Journal of Business Communications

• Journal of Business Venturing

• Journal of Collective Negotiations

• Journal of Communications

• Journal of Conflict Management

• Journal of Conflict Resolution

• Journal of Contemporary Business

• Journal of Corporate Strategy

• Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology

• Journal of Economics and Business

• Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

• Journal of Environment Management

• Journal of General Management

• Journal of High Technology Management Research

• Journal of Industrial Economics

• Journal of International Business Studies

• Journal of International Law and Economics

• Journal of Labor Research

• Journal of Law and Economics

• Journal of Legal Studies Education

• Journal of Management

• Journal of Management Inquiry

• Journal of Management Studies

• Journal of Occupational Psychology

• Journal of Organizational Behavior Management

• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Journal of Political Economy

• Journal of Small Business Management

• Journal of Vocational Behavior

• Labor Law Journal

• Land Economics

• Long Range Planning

• Management Communication Quarterly

• Management International Review

• Management Science

• Managerial Planning

• Monthly Labor Review

• Multivariate Behavioral Research

• OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science

• Operations Research

• Organization Science

• Organization Studies

• Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes

• Organizational Dynamics

• Personnel

• Personnel Administrator

• Personnel and Guidance Journal

• Personnel Journal

• Personnel Psychology

• Psychological Bulletin

• Public Administration Review

• Public Choice

• Public Management

• Public Personnel Management

• Public Relations Journal

• Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Quarterly Review of Economics and Business

• Quarterly Review of Economics and Statistics

• RAND Journal of Economics

• R&D Management

• Regulation

• Research Management

• Research in Organizational Change and Development

• Review of Economics and Statistics

• Sex Roles

• Simulation and Games

• Sloan Management Review

• Small Group Behavior

• Social Forces

• Social Psychology

• Social Science Quarterly

• Sociological Quarterly

• Sociometry

• Strategic Management Journal

• Technology Review

• Training and Development Journal

• Training Directors Journal

• Transport Review