A message from President-Elect Robin Pinkley about the 2006 IACM election results:
I am happy to report the results of this year’s IACM Election for President-Elect and Board-Members-At-Large. Voting increased by 10% over last year, so thanks to all of those who voted. To ensure a smooth and consistent online voting process, Jeff Easter and Laurie Weingart of Carnegie Mellon University donated their time and resources again this year. For this, I am most grateful.
Heart felt thanks to all of those who generously agreed to run, as this is a clear expression of their commitment to IACM. As evidenced by the nomination process and the tight race in each category, every one of these scholars would provide strong leadership and our membership recognizes that fact. Thus, it is my hope that those not selected this time will run again in the near future. It is our luck to have too many excellent options instead of too few.
It is with great pleasure that I announce that Bill Donohue, Distinguished Professor of Communications at Michigan State University was elected as President-Elect. It is with equal enthusiasm that I inform you that Corinne Bendersky, Assistant Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Wolfgang Steinel, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Leiden University (the Netherlands) were elected to two-year terms as Board-Members-At-Large. Congratulations to each of them and congratulations to each of you for ensuring the health of the organization through their selection. I look forward to working together as we assist our President, Ray Friedman in Montreal and work to plan and launch the 2007 conference in Budapest, Hungary
A brief review of each candidate follows for those of you who did not have a chance to vote:
Bill Donohue is an active member of the International Association for Conflict Management. Bill’s work lies primarily in the areas of mediation and crisis negotiation. He has worked extensively with several state and federal agencies in both training and research activities related to violence prevention and hostage negotiation. He has over 70 publications dealing with various communication and conflict issues and has won several awards for his scholarship from national and international professional associations. Bill is on the editorial board of several journals in the areas of conflict management and communication. Bill recently edited a special issue of the International Journal of Conflict Management focusing on interaction processes in conflict. In addition to his academic credentials, Bill maintains an extensive professional practice in conflict and communication training and intervention. Finally, as many of us can attest, Bill is an exceptional dancer and an entertaining story teller.
Corinne Bendersky conducts research on organizational factors that affect individuals' conflict attitudes and behaviors. She has also done research on the social psychological mechanisms that drive negotiators' preferences changes for offers they make during negotiations. Corinne has been an active member of the IACM and the Conflict Management and Organizational Behavior divisions of the Academy of Management since 1997. Her distinctions include: IACM awards for the Best Article or Chapter Published in 2003 (2005), for the Outstanding Dissertation completed in 2001-2002 (2003) and CMD awards for Best Conflict in Context paper (2003) and Best Graduate Student Paper (2001). She regularly reviews conference submissions for both the IACM and the Academy of Management's Conflict Management and Organizational Behavior divisions and is an ad hoc referee for the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Advance in Industrial Relations, and Administrative Science Quarterly. She also has been on the IACM's Best Dissertation Award committee. As some of you know, Corinne is now the recent and very proud mother of a future IACM member (or at least we hope so).
Wolfgang Steinel does research that focuses on motivated information provision and processing in conflict and negotiation, and sets out to explore how personal characteristics such as social value orientations, need to belong, self-monitoring, and epistemic motivation play in concert with social and situational characteristics to influence conflict behaviors. Other research in progress includes experimental studies on power and deception, on the role of anger expression in negotiation, on negotiation training, on constituency in negotiations and intergroup negotiations, as well as field studies on conflict and counterproductive workplace behaviors. Wolfgang has been an active member of the IACM since 2001, and has received a first-authored best paper award in the same year and a second-authored best paper award in 2004. We can also thank Wolfgang (photographer extraordinaire) for the wonderful pictorial souvenirs from our time in Seville, Spain
