Presentation:

"Leading Change in the Era of Bad News: Dealing with Anger, Distrust, and Revenge in the Workplace"

Today's bad economy and its victims are everyday media headlines. Bad news events seem the rule of the day, no longer the exception. These current times pose daunting challenges for leaders, as they need to be leading change efforts to improve the current conditions against a backdrop of growing anger, distrust, and revenge by employees.

Biography:

Robert J. Bies (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of Management and Founder of the Executive Master's in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. In addition, he is co-author of the book, Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revenge - And How to Stop It, which is published by Jossey-Bass.

Professor Bies has received the Best Teacher award at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. At Georgetown, he has twice received the Joseph Le Moine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence at the McDonough School of Business; he received the Outstanding Professor of the International Executive MBA Program (IEMBA-2) at the McDonough School of Business; and he received the Outstanding Professor of the Executive Master's in Leadership Program (2008) at the McDonough School of Business.

Professor Bies' current research focuses on leadership, the delivery of bad news, organizational justice, and revenge and forgiveness in the workplace. He has published extensively on these topics and related issues in academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of Social Issues, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, as well as in the prestigious annual series of analytical essays, Research in Organizational Behavior. Professor Bies currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.

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