291: HCM Practice Incubator (14383)

Saturday, August 10, 2024

09:00 – 10:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Fairmont: Royal Room

Session Number: 291
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/RxZn5L

Organizer(s)

JG

Jennifer Gutberg

U. of Toronto, Canada
TP

Tracy Hopkins Porter

Cleveland State U., United States

Participant(s)

CM

Cheryl Mitchell

Gustavson School of Business, U. of Victoria, Canada
MC

Michael Richard Cauley

Vanderbilt U., United States
JP

Jessica Peck

Cleveland State U., United States
LC

Leeann Comfort

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, United States
MD

Matthew John DePuccio

Rush U., United States
AP

Andres A. Pinto

Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve U., United States
GT

Gina Phelps Thoebes

U. of Akron, United States

The academic-practitioner gap is a well-recognized and continually growing issue for management scholars. This gap is especially prominent in healthcare contexts, where hospitals, systems, and entire jurisdictions are often subject to wide-spread organizational (and system-level) interventions and restructurings. Given the fundamentally applied nature of healthcare management research, scholars in the field must find assurance that their work is equal parts theoretically insightful and practically relevant. We propose a contributing factor to this academic-practitioner gap is both a lack of emphasis on drawing from practitioner perspectives to inform research agendas, and a lack of awareness or understanding of career options that span a hybrid research-practice continuum. The aim of this professional development workshop is to provide researchers with a platform to receive mentorship and exchange ideas about practice-oriented careers. These can include academic researchers interested in partnering with practice organizations, those looking to shift to a practice-oriented career themselves, or early career scholars interested in exploring a practice-oriented trajectory. The PDW will involve a brief introduction to the issues around practice-oriented careers, and then delve into a roundtable approach, where participants will have been paired up with mentors/experts from the HCM Practice Committee to receive concrete suggestions to help scholars better implement their practice-oriented projects, ideas, or partnerships.