Karen (Etty) A. Jehn

Candidate for IACM President - 2012 Elections

Karen (Etty) A. Jehn is a Professor of Organization Behavior at Melbourne Business School. Her research focuses on intragroup conflict, group composition and performance, and lying in organizations. Etty has authored numerous scholarly publications in these areas, including articles in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, International Journal of Conflict Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. Her dissertation work on types of conflict (1992, Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management) won awards from the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association. She has served on the boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the International Journal of Conflict Management where she was an Associate Editor. She currently is the editor-in-chief of the Conflict and Dispute Resolution Journal and the co-editor-in-chief of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. Etty was also a Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict (University of Pennsylvania), the Research Director of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Diversity Research Network, and the Chair of the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. Her two most recent research interests are in asymmetry of perceptions and member entitlement in workgroups. Etty has been an active member of IACM since 1989 serving as Representative-at-large and Program Chair.

Comments from Etty:

IACM has been an incredibly important part of my academic life for my entire career; it is my intellectual home and has provided me with many intellectual and networking opportunities, as well as the best conference times ever (both knowledge exchange and personal experiences). I would look forward to doing my part in continuing to keep IACM a place where new scholars and Ph.D. students can flourish in an enriching environment learning from others in the field, as well as bringing new ideas to those of us who have been there for a while. I would also hope to reach out to new areas of the world that are not as fully represented in IACM. Having worked in the U.S., The Netherlands, and now Australia (countries fairly well represented in IACM), as well as conducting research in other less well-represented countries, I have learned the value of seeing our theories and frameworks from various perspectives. I have also seen IACM grow over the years by including new topic areas and new methodologies and would work to continue this trajectory while keeping the engaging and warm environment that keeps many of us coming back year after year.