Newsletter
Volume 31| 2008 | Number 2
OBM Network
By Dr. John Austin
Mark your calendars! The 12th Bi-Annual Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) Network Conference will be held on February 19–20, 2009 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. The conference will be held at the oceanfront Cocoa Beach Hilton and will focus on “Leadership.” Featured speakers include the country’s leading authorities on the use of behavior analytic techniques to improve performance in organizations and increase safety. The conference is sponsored by Aubrey Daniels International, Continuous Learning Group, Quality Safety Edge, and Safety Performance Solutions. This year the conference will highlight the important contributions OBM is making in organizations worldwide. We anticipate many attendees from businesses eager to learn more about OBM and will be gearing our marketing efforts toward this end.
One of the initiatives for the next year or two for the OBM Network will be to make OBM research more relevant for business. A round table discussion on this topic will be held at the upcoming OBM Network conference described above. Anyone with ideas on ways in which this might be accomplished is welcome to participate in the discussion.
Congratulations to Kristen Rost of CUNY-Queen’s College in New York for winning the OBM Network Chris Anderson Research award for 2008. Under the guidance of Dr. Alicia Alvero, Kristen’s research will focus on behavior-based safety and ergonomics.
The Web site, http://OBMnetwork.com continues to get over 50,000 visitors per year from all around the world. In 2007, the OBM Network had more members than ever, with 282.
Haworth Press, the publisher for the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, which is a member benefit for OBM Network members, has been acquired by the large publisher Taylor & Francis. For now, nothing will change regarding subscriptions; however, the journal has undergone an overhaul in terms of how manuscripts are handled. Most everything is electronic now, including electronic proofs for authors. This is resulting in much quicker turn-times on manuscript reviews and publications.