Dr. Kenneth Tai is a faculty member at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. This episode focused on his research on gender and workplace mistreatment. He discussed how men and women receive mistreatment in the workplace.

The article referenced in the episode:

Tai, K., Lee, K., Kim, E., Johnson, T. D., Wang, W., Duffy, M. K., & Kim, S. (2022). Gender, bottom-line mentality, and workplace mistreatment: The roles of gender norm violation and team gender composition. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(5), 854–865. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000936

Dr. Amira Schiff is a professor and the Director of the Conflict Management, Resolution, and Negotiation Graduate Program at Bar-Ilan University. As a researcher in international conflict resolution, she specializes in the intricacies of conflict management and the dynamics of peace processes. Her influential work, particularly the article 'Reaching a Mutual Agreement: Readiness Theory and Coalition Building in the Aceh Peace Process,' earned the prestigious NCMR award for the best paper in 2014. Dr. Schiff has a prolific publication record, contributing to key journals in the field such as NCMR, the International Journal of Conflict Management and the International Negotiation journal. Her book, 'Negotiating Intractable Conflicts: Readiness Theory Revisited,' published by Routledge in 2021, further cements her status as a leading voice in conflict resolution studies.

Schiff, A., (2021) “Readiness Theory: A New Approach to Understanding Mediated Prenegotiation and Negotiation Processes Leading to Peace Agreements”, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.34891/z3t9-9d49

Deborah A. Cai (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is professor and senior associate dean in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, and she is a faculty member in the Media and Communication doctoral program. Dr. Cai is an international researcher with scholarly and professional expertise in intercultural communication, persuasion, negotiation and conflict management. She has conducted research in China, Japan, and the U.S., and she has trained political and business leaders from Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, and developing nations from Asian Pacific Economic Commission (APEC) and the State Department’s leadership program. Deborah is a Fellow in the International Academy of Intercultural Researchers and a Fellow and past president of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM). She is Past-Chair of the Conflict Management division of the Academy of Management. Deborah served as editor of the journal, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, and is editor of the four-volume collection of research, Intercultural Communication (Sage, Benchmark in Communication). Her research has published in outlets such as Communication Monographs, Communication Research, International Journal of Conflict Management, Human Communication Research, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, as well as The Handbook of Intercultural Communication and the SAGE Handbook of Communication and Conflict.

Cai, D. A., (2022) “From Theory to Practice and Back Again: Lessons from Hostage Negotiation for Conflict Management”, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research 15(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.34891/20220406-433