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"Dr. Edwards is an expert in selection, training, performance management, leadership, organizational development, and team effectiveness. His current research interests are training and development, performance management, and organizational change and development. Dr. Edwards currently serves on an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology."
Transcript:
"So, what is the #1 thing you think people may not know about a PhD in management?"
"Well, we're in a business school but we do science. Most of the undergraduate and master students who have a passion for science, are in Arts and Sciences and Engineering. For that reason, we recruit a lot of students out of psychology and economics and sociology and engineering, because they realize they can come into the business world and do their science. It's all behavioral science. We're using the exact same research methods and things. We're borrowing from the same literature."
"So whenever you do research you have to publish, right? Whenever you're publishing in these top tier journals, is it, you write a draft-up and then you send it in. Is it that easy? Walk us through or walk through the process of it normally."
"Normally, from start to finish, you'll come you'll come up with a research idea and you'll work with a team of other Ph.D. students and other faculty members, to develop what we consider to be a top-tier research idea. Then, you execute that, analyze the data and then write it up and usually, there is a multi-week process of writing up the results, sending it to co-authors for edits and revisions, and so among the research team, there are several iterations of edits so that you have a final polished product that you're going to submit to a journal. Sometimes, you might get a friendly reviewer, a colleague who's not on the paper to give you some feedback as well. Then, you submit the manuscript."
"How long are those? like how many pages?"
"Well, they're usually in the 30 to 50 page range and some journals will have a a word limit that's even less than that. But, the manuscripts will be under review for about 60 days. So what happens is, the primary editor, the senior editor will assign it to an associate editor, and an associate editor will assign it to usually two, sometimes three reviewers, and they are blind to the process. So the reviewers don't know who the authors are, and the authors don't know who their reviewers are. The reviewers give it a critique. The editor takes that feedback and information, makes a decision as to whether or not the study is worthy of publication and that criteria is usually a contribution to research, to new knowledge, and makes a decision as to whether or not it's ready for publication. If it does make a contribution to new knowledge, no manuscript is ever ready for publication after the first round of reviews. So, we get excited when the manuscript is rejected and then is invited to be resubmitted. That means they like it, it has passed that initial bar, and we make some edits to the manuscript to improve it."
"Sometimes you have to collect additional data, or some different analysis and then you send it back. It usually goes to the same two or three reviewers. They will provide additional feedback, and there may be another round of revisions and the process could take up to a year."
"We would love to have you join the cowboy family and you can find a lot more information on the management department website at Spears School of Business or scan the QR code on this page."
