Dear WAIB members:
A follow-up on WAIB President Lyn Amine's email about elections for WAIB
officer positions. I will be running the nominations for, and election
of, WAIB officers this year so am establishing the following timetable
and procedures:
1. Please submit all nominations, including self-nominations to me by
email at [log in to unmask], no later than Friday June 17, 2005. I will
declare nominations CLOSED as of that date.
2. Please include in your nomination email a one-paragraph bio of the
individual. That bio will be attached to the election ballot.
3. I will email WAIB-L the list of nominees to the membership during the
following week. That list will also be posted on the WAIB website for
those without email access.
4. I will do an electronic ballot of the membership. This year, given my
limited expertise with electronic voting, I will ask you to simply REPLY
to my email by putting an X by the candidates you support and emailing
it back to me. Anyone without email access can fax their votes to me at
979-845-9641. All WAIB members in good standing are eligible to vote. I
will declare the voting CLOSED as of July 4, 2005.
5. Election results will be based on who receives the largest number of
votes cast for a particular officer position. Winners of the election
will be informed ASAP. Results of the election will be announced to the
general membership at the breakfast meeting of WAIB in Quebec City.
6. Some questions that arisen re nominations:
a) Do I have to attend the AIB meetings?
Please note that the next two meetings of the AIB (which would coincide
with the term of the newly elected WAIB executive) will be in Beijing,
China, and in Indianapolis, USA. Some potential nominees have asked
whether or not they would need to attend the AIB meetings, given the
likely cost of the China conference, and the difficulty of non-US
residents from some countries in coming to the United States. We have
discussed this at the WAIB executive level and think that a person
elected to WAIB office should attend the AIB meetings if at all
possible, but would not be required to do so. The bulk of the work of
the WAIB Executive takes place outside of the meetings (e.g., WAIB
sessions on the program, fundraising, updating the WAIB website,
updating the WAIB Directory, and so on). If a WAIB officer cannot attend
a particular AIB meeting, we think that they should arrange for someone
(e.g., a previous WAIB officer) to attend in their place. As long as
there are a couple of WAIB officers at the AIB meetings, we should be
"good to go". So, if you would like to be a WAIB officer but do not plan
to attend one of the two upcoming AIB meetings, or you know someone else
in that position, do not let this be a deterrent - do go ahead and
nominate that someone (with their permission, of course) or yourself.
Please signal in your email, however, that you cannot attend the AIB
meeting in ......... (This avoids having a slate where none of the
officers can attend a particular conference).
b) If I run for the member-at-large position, do I have to be a
webmaster?
At present, we have a wonderful webmaster, Beckie LeFlore in the Texas
A&M CIBER, and the WAIB website is hosted by the TAMU CIBER. All members
of the WAIB executive give materials to Beckie, who "cleans them up" and
posts them on the website. Therefore, there is no need at present for
anyone other than Beckie to actually host the website, do the HTML, and
so on. Beckie will be retiring from CIBS at the end of 2005, but we hope
to persuade her to stay on as webmaster. If she chooses to step down, we
will look for someone else to be the formal webmaster and host for the
website. (This would be an additional ex-officio WAIB position, as
Beckie's position is now.) In sum, no, you do not have to be a
webmaster.
7. Other questions - If you have another other questions, please email
me directly at [log in to unmask] or email Lyn Amine at [log in to unmask]
Thanks! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Quebec City.
best wishes, Lorraine Eden (WAIB Founder)
Lorraine Eden
Professor of Management and Texas A&M Faculty Fellow
Department of Management
TAMU 4221, Mays Business School
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-4221 USA
Phone: 979/862-4053 (w) 979/693-1626 (h)
Fax: 979/845-9641 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://cibs.tamu.edu/leden; http://www.voxprof.com
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From: Women in the Academy of International Business on behalf of Lyn S.
Amine PhD
Sent: Wed 6/8/2005 9:26 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [WAIB-L] WAIB Election and Final Draft of Constitution and
By-Laws, June 7, 2005
Dear WAIB members,
Following up on my recent email inviting you to nominate yourself or a
fellow WAIB member as a candidate for election to an officer position,
please find attached for your information the final draft of WAIB's new
Constitution and By-Laws. WAIB is a special interest group of the
Academy of International Business.
We shall vote to approve this document during the annual business
meeting of WAIB, scheduled for Monday July 11, 7.00-8.30am at the AIB
conference in Quebec City. A light breakfast will be served immediately
before this meeting.
In the attached document you will find details about the various
officer positions and responsibilities. Note that these also include
one position for a currently enrolled PhD student, as Student
Member-at-Large.
The other officer positions available for election are: President,
Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and (Faculty) Member-at-Large.
Lorraine Eden, founder of WAIB, is responsible for running the email
ballot this year. Please send your nomination(s) to Lorraine at:
[log in to unmask]
with the subject line: WAIB Officer Nomination.
Remember to include a brief rationale for your interest in an officer
position. If you are nominating someone else, please include a specific
statement that this person accepts your nomination.
Please pass along information about WAIB and the upcoming election to
your colleagues and students who are members of AIB and have an
interest in gender-related issues and research. The WAIB webpage is
accessible through AIB at: http://aib.msu.edu/community/womeninaib.asp
After the AIB2005 conference in Quebec City, I shall pass into the role
of Past President and I look forward to supporting the incoming officer
team.
With best wishes,
Lyn
Lyn S. Amine, PhD
President
Women in the Academy of International Business
Saint Louis University
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