AoM is a nonprofit professional organization of academics and practitioners of management. AoM was first introduced to academicians and practitioners of management in a national conference format as the Association of Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior in 1983 (HRMOB). That same year the constitution and bylaws were written. As it grew in academic and corporate memberships, and conference delegate attendance, it experienced a clear evolution toward disciplines other than HRM and OB. More specifically, it was evolving into a decided systems oriented organization. It became clear that the introduction of IS, ITM and Computer Science (CS) was to soon manifest. Therefore in 1989, the membership voted to change the name of the professional society to The Association of Management (AoM) and to gradually introduce the new divisions over a five year period.
In 1989, in time for the annual conference, the information and technology management (I&TM) division joined forces with HRM and OB. I&TM as it was then called, supported all the the information and systems related topics that were in vogue at the time. For the 1994 annual conference, I&TM was dicotomized to become the Information Technology Management Group [division] (ITM) and the Computer Science Group (CS). Having experienced enormous success, the membership voted to further separate out the information related topics, thereby specifically creating the Information Systems Group (IS) in conjunction with ITM and CS. IS will enter the '95 annual international conference as a separate division in the information triad.
The IS Group has 10 Tracks to its division: IS Research, Development, Implementation and Management; IS Planning, Strategy and Policy; Impact on Changes in Information Systems; Global Communication Highways and IS; Evaluation and Measurement for IS; Intelligent IS; DSS, GDSS, EIS; Competitive Systems; Economics of Information; and Inter-Organizational Networks/Systems.
The ITM Group has 12 Tracks to its division: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems; Behavioral Aspects of Information Technology Management; CASE Reengineering and Retooling; Database Management Systems; End-user Computing; Groupware; Analytical Methods; Research Methods in Information and Technology Management; Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Information and Technology Management; Teaching and Curriculum Development in Information Management; Communications and Integrated Services; and Group Decision Tools and Processes.
The CS Group has 12 Tracks to its division: Compiler Design, Data Structure and Programming Languages; Theory of Computation and Complexity; Numerical Analysis and Algorithms; Computer Networks and Data Communications; Computer Graphics and Image Processing; Artificial Intelligence; Systems Simulations; Software Engineering and CASE; Parallel Processing and Distributed Processing; Software Reliability and Fault Tolerance; Database Design and Analysis; and Multimedia.
The other seven groups (divisions) are: Management Functions and Applications Group; Multidisciplinary Group; Educational Studies and Research Group; Human Resource Management Group; Organizational Studies Group; Transportation Travel and Related Technology Group; Global Health and Ecology Group.
A total of 102 Tracks are represented in the ten groups. Each group has a group chairperson, with separate track chairpersons and conference session chairpersons. Overall, with conference paper submissions reviewers and conference session discussants, there is an annual international conference delegate complement of 7 leadership per track.
The AoM publishes, with Maximilian Press Publishers, three (3) quarterly journals. The Journal of Management Systems (JMS) first published in 1989 is entering its seventh volume in January of 1995.
The Journal of Information Technology Management, also published by Maximilian Press, is entering its sixth quartery volume in January of '95.
The Global Information Systems (GIS) journal will commence its first volume in January of 1996.
Four other publications will join GIS in the launch by the AoM/MaxPress in the same year 1996 or sooner. An older release, since halted, The Practice of Management, has been renamed _The Practitioner_ and will be re-released around mid 1995.
The Association of Management is the only global oriented professional management society focusing on total management systems. It has an international orientation dedicated to advancing the theory and practice of management wherever there is a management presence. AoM monitors new developments in management systems, conducts research, assesses complementary and conflicting knowledge, and disseminates facts and perspectives in all sectors where management is practiced. Its membership rolls include academicians and practitioners representing distinguished and leading authorities in management systems located in colleges, universities and industries worldwide.