Leading Through Conflict: Into the Fray

Effective leadership requires the capacity to successfully manage conflict. This edited volume examines the causes and consequence of conflict in groups, organizations and communities, and identifies ways that conflict can be managed and resolved.

Dr. Dejun Tony Kong (Ph.D. in Business Administration, Washington University in St. Louis) is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, Texas. Prior to joining the Bauer College of Business, he served on the faculty of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond, Virginia. His research largely focuses on trust and trustworthiness factors (ability/competence, benevolence/motives, and integrity/ethics) in various contexts such as negotiations, leadership, teams, and cross-cultural psychology/management. His articles have appeared in various journals of management and psychology, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Positive Psychology, Mindfulness, Personality and Individual Differences, and Small Group Research, as well as various books on leadership and negotiations. He is currently serving on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Trust Research and Leadership Quarterly, and a guest editor of the Journal of Trust Research special issue on trust in negotiations and repeated bargaining. He is also an ad-hoc reviewer for many well-regarded management and psychology journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Studies, Psychological Science, and so forth. In recognition of his academic achievements, he has been awarded the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Mednick Memorial Fellowship 2013, Singapore Management University Lim Kim San Fellow 2011, and Washington University Hubert C. Moog Scholar 2007-2008, among many other awards and honors.

Donelson R. Forsyth is Professor at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, USA where he holds the Colonel Leo K. and Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership. He studies groups, leadership, ethical thought, and the psychological and interpersonal consequences of success and failure at the group and individual level. He is the author of Group Dynamics (6th ed., 2014) and has published articles in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the American Psychologist. His work has been featured in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and the ABC Nightly News.