Conflict Management CM

Dear CMD Members

A big thank you for participating in the CMD Election.    I am delighted to share the results of the election with you.  I would like to thank all of the candidates in this election for their willingness to serve the Conflict Management Division and, on behalf of the CM Executive, to congratulate the successful candidates.

PDW Chair-Elect

Jen Overbeck is an Associate Professor of Management at Melbourne Business School. She previously held academic positions at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah and the USC Marshall School of Business. Her research focuses on issues of power, status, hierarchy, and negotiations. Recent projects examine the active strategies that people use to manage their own and others' hierarchical position in groups; how status affects the use of aggression; how culture moderates effects of threat on self-worth and behavior toward others; and how the use of silence affects negotiation outcomes. Her work has been published in journals including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, Psychological Science, and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. She edited the book Negotiation and Groups as part of the series Research on Managing Groups & Teams (series editors Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix).  Jen has served on the editorial boards of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, and as associate editor for Group Decision and Negotiation.

Representatives at Large

Julia Bear is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Julia looks forward to continuing the tradition of the Conflict Management Division as an active, vibrant and welcoming community, in which conflict and negotiation researchers can connect, collaborate and contribute to negotiation and conflict research. Julia's research focuses on the influence of gender on negotiation processes and outcomes. She investigates what factors, both individual and situational, influence the gender gap typically seen in negotiation situations, and ways to reduce gender gaps in negotiation. Julia's research has been published in numerous journals and books. She is the recipient of multiple best paper awards from both the Academy of Management and the International Association of Conflict Management. In 2016, Julia served as the Program Chair for the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM) annual meeting. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Carnegie Mellon University.

Rachel Campagna is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of New Hampshire, Paul College of Business and Economics. Rachel studies the dynamics of interpersonal perceptions such as trust in negotiation and workplace contexts. In one research stream, Rachel and her colleagues examine how factors such as emotion expressions and trust effect the implementation of a negotiated agreement or other non-contracted behaviors that occur after negotiators reach a deal. Her work has earned a best paper award from the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM) and has been published in prestigious outlets such as Organizational Behavior and Decision Processes and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Most recently, Rachel is also examining research questions related to the accuracy of interpersonal perceptions in the workplace. She is exploring factors that might influence accuracy and the implications of inaccuracy.   Rachel also teaches a variety of courses in Negotiation and Management, and has earned teaching awards in these areas. She is also involved in professional service, including serving on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Trust Research and acting as an ad-hoc reviewer for several journals. Rachel completed her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School.

Mara Olekalns

Past Chair, Conflict Management Division

Professor of Management (Negotiation)

Melbourne Business School