CONFLICT MANAGEMENT The Psychology of conflict and conflict ...

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cesses, Group Decision and Negotiation, and Psychological Research Bulletin.
He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Behavior Decision-Making and
The Journal of Management. He is also the CEO of Lehman Benson Consulting
(LehmanBenson.com), which specializes in negotiation, diversity, and
time-management training.
Katerina Bezrukova is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University.
Her current research interests include workplace diversity and
group faultlines, organizational conflict and performance, intergroup and
interorganizational relations, ethnopolitical conflict and peacekeeping,
and diversity training. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Organizational
Behavior, Human Resource Management Journal, and Best Paper Proceedings
of the Academy of Management. She was a co-recipient of the Ulrich
& Lake Award for Excellence for 2004 for her co-authored article titled
“The Effects of Diversity on Business Performance: Report of the Diversity
Research Network.”
Wendy R. Boswell is Associate Professor and Mays Research Fellow in
the Department of Management, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University.
She is also the Director of the Center for Human Resource Management
at Texas A&M. Her research focuses on employee attraction and
retention, job search behavior, conflict management, and work stress. Professor
Boswell’s work has appeared in such journals as Academy of Management
Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Human
Resource Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Journal of Management.
She serves on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology and Journal
of Managerial Issues, and serves as an Associate Editor for Human Resource
Management.
Arthur P. Brief is the David S. Eccles Chair in Business Ethics and Presidential
Professor at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the
moral dimensions of organizational life (e.g., ethical decision making,
race relations, and worker well-being). In addition to dozens of journal
articles, Dr. Brief is the author of several books including Attitudes In and
Around Organizations (1998). He is a past editor of The Academy of Management
Review. He now co-edits Research in Organizational Behavior and the
new Academy of Management Annals. He is a Fellow of the Academy of
Management, American Psychological Society, and the American Psychological
Association. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Batten Fellow at the
Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, and the
Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Professor of Research at the Harvard
Business School.
Valentina Bruk-Lee is an Industrial/Organizational Psychology consultant.
Her research focus is on the impact of interpersonal conflict