GENDER AND NEGOTIATION CONFERENCE
We (Kathleen McGinn--HBS and Iris Bohnet--Kennedy School) are starting to plan a conference on gender and negotiation at the Kennedy School. It will be jointly sponsored by Women in Public Policy at the school, the Program on Negotiation, and CGO here at Simmons. WAPP and PON have run conferences like this before where the focus has been almost exclusively on laboratory studies. This year the conference will be for two days, one focusing again on laboratory studies (the dominant method in the field) and the other, which I am taking responsibility for and for want of a better title-- gender and negotiation in organizations. It is not easy to identify people who may be doing research in this area in part because people may not identify themselves that way. So I want to think about the topic broadly and am reaching out for your help. Here are some vague ideas that may jog your thinking.
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In my own work, I have been looking at the challenges to legitimacy women might face in new leadership roles (for many reasons) and what they negotiate for.
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Second generation gender issues --models of leadership, glass cliff, paths to leadership, valuing of different contributions and skills, definitions of success and competence, perceptions of commitment, expectations about time--can create a context for negotiations to play out.
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Studies of gendered occupation like nursing may also be a context for negotiations.
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Work by Kathleen and Hannah Bowles on women negotiating authority in their careers.
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Work and personal life integration
The conference will be in November and the papers will be part of a guest edited volume for the journal Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. Thanks in advance. If you have questions about this rather vague request, give me a call--617-521-3871 or email me back and I will try to clarify this better.
Deborah M. Kolb, Ph.D.
Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership Simmons School of Management
409 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
617-521-3871 (telephone)
617-521-3880 (fax)
kolb@simmons.edu
