CONFLICT MANAGEMENT The Psychology of conflict and conflict ...

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and Psychological Bulletin. At present Professor Spector is the Point/Counterpoint
editor for Journal of Organizational Behavior and is on the editorial
boards of Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Organizational
Research Methods, and Personnel Psychology. In 1991 the Institute for Scientific
Information listed him as one of the 50 highest impact contemporary
researchers (out of over 102,000) in psychology worldwide.
Jordan Stein is a doctoral student in the Department of Management
and Organizations at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Her research
focuses on organizational justice and conflict. She has published in the
Journal of Management.
Deborah J. Terry is Professor of Social Psychology and Executive Dean
of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of
Queensland. Her primary research interests are attitudes, social influence,
persuasion, group processes, and intergroup relations. She also has
applied research interests in organizational and health psychology. She
has published widely in these areas, is co-editor of Social Identity Processes
in Organizational Contexts (2001) and Attitudes, Behavior, and Social Context:
The Role of Group Norms and Group Membership (1999), and holds editorial
positions with the British Journal of Psychology and the European Journal of
Social Psychology.
Sherry Thatcher is Assistant Professor in the Management Information
Systems Department at the Eller College of Management, University of
Arizona. Her research focuses on the implications of diversity, faultlines,
and identity on conflict, communication, and performance. She has published
in The Academy of Management Review, Group Decision and Negotiation,
and International Journal of Conflict Management.
Dean Tjosvold is the Henry Y. W. Fong Chair Professor, Management
Department, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has also taught at Pennsylvania
State University and Simon Fraser University, and has held several
visiting professorships. He is a past president of the International
Association of Conflict Management and was elected to the Academy of
Management Board of Governors in 2004. He has published over 200 articles,
20 books, 30 book chapters, and 100 conference papers on managing
conflict, cooperation and competition, decision making, power, and other
management issues. He has served on several editorial boards, including
The Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal
of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Management,
and is now Asian editor for the Journal of World Business. With colleagues,
he has written books on teamwork, leadership, and conflict management
in China published in Chinese. He is a partner in his family’s health care
business, which has 900 employees, and is based in Minnesota.