1. Leadership Scholarship MIG Open Meeting Presentation 16 th Annual ILA Global Conference San Diego, CA Saturday, November 1, 2014

2. Leadership Scholarship MIG The MIG for Scholarship provides a forum for scholars and practitioners from all disciplines and fields to interact and mutually further our understanding of leadership, and to disseminate the results of leadership scholarship. Collaborate with scholars and researchers to better understand the study of leadership and to disseminate the results of leadership research.

3. LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP MIG To Increase the Scholarly Rigor and Relevance of ILA

4. Last Year’s MIG Meeting I.Submit your best work ILA 2014 San Diego II.Convince a colleague to do the same III.Improve rigor and relevance of scholarship through dialogue/education

5. 1036 LS MIG members! 39% of ILA members are associated with LS MIG 447 LS MIG members attending ILA-San Diego 1. Submit your Best Work ILA San Diego 2. Convince a colleague to submit their best work.

6. 1. Submit your Best Work ILA San Diego 2. Convince a colleague to submit their best work.

7. Most Publishable Paper Award! £100 worth of books from SAGE Paper fast-tracked for publication in Leadership Dejun ‘Tony’ Kong “Strengths use, controlling supervision, and job outcomes across cultures’

8. 3. Improve rigor and relevance of scholarship through education Dialogue on what we mean by ‘rigor and relevance’ Pre-conference methodology sessions/workshops Webinar workshops on rigor and relevance

9. Starting the Dialogue Rigor 1.theory-based or theory- generating, 2.has testable hypothesis and critical analysis, 3.employs valid measures and ethical data collection 4.produces converging evidence resulting from multiple studies or analyses utilizing different methodologies and populations. Relevance 5.problem centrality 6.future focus 7.reality-based methods

10. Small Group Discussion 1.What is rigorous scholarship? What does it mean to you? What should it mean to ILA? 2.What is relevant scholarship? What does it mean to you? What should it mean to ILA?

11. Next Year – Barcelona! SUBMISSIONS Refereed papers (2500 word maximum), symposia, posters Idea for a methodologically-based presentation? Contact Dave Rosch (dmrosch@Illinois.edu)dmrosch@Illinois.edu

12. Upcoming months Volunteer to review proposals for Barcelona – How-to information sent out next month – Assigned no more than 3 short papers – Critical to the success of next year’s scholarship-related presentations – Review work done in Feb/March 2015

13. Other MIG improvement ideas?