Call For Presentations

Faculty and instructors, doctoral students, professionals, professional association staff, and consultants from all subject areas broadly related to HRIR are invited to submit proposals for presentations. Proposals for presentations on all topics related to HRIR education, curriculum, and instruction are welcome. Past topics have included teaching international HR, strategy, diversity, and ethics; experiential teaching methods, new learning exercises, and other classroom innovations; using technology and multimedia; identifying, assessing, and teaching professional HR competencies; and curricular trends.

Proposal Guidelines: An abstract no longer than 5 pages of text, plus references, tables, and figures submitted by December 29, 2007.

Send submissions, questions, and ideas to John Budd via e-mail at [address removed] or mail at

Industrial Relations Center
3-300 Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
321 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455

A formal paper is not required, but the conference organizers hope to publish some conference papers as a book on HRIR education and teaching.