Conflict in Teams/Slomoff Lectureship with speaker Richard Hackman

This year's Slomoff Lectureship speaker is J. Richard Hackman, Edgar Pierce professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University, who will speak on the topic "Conflict in Teams - Antecedents, Dynamics, and Remedies."

Professor Hackman, one of the world's leading experts on team performance, also studies leadership effectiveness and the design of self-managing teams and organizations. 

His most recent books are "Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great" (with Ruth Wageman, Debra Nunes, and James Burruss), and "Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances," which won the Academy of Management's Terry Award for the most outstanding management book of the year in 2004.

See the flyer and additional information on this event at  http://www.conflict.umb.edu/SlomoffVisitingLectureship.php, or contact the Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution at 617-287-7489, email conflict@umb.edu .

All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.  

Anyone requiring disability-related accommodations, including dietary accommodations, should visit www.ada.umb.edu  before April 21, 2011.