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| Kogod School of
Business American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016 (202) 885 - 6193 (202) 885 - 1992 Fax volkema@american.edu |
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Curriculum Vitae
Full
CV is available for download in the following formats:
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| Current Position: | Chair
of the Management Department and Associate Professor |
| Education: | Ph.D.,
1981, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Teaching/Training: | Taught courses on negotiation, conflict management, teambuilding,
the consultancy process, and organizational behavior at the University
of Wisconsin, George Washington University, and American University.
Coordinator, Management Skills Practicum (MBA program), Kogod
School of Business, American University (1995-96).
Workshops,
seminars, and executive training with a variety of public and
private-sector organizations on negotiation/mediation, program
planning, decision making, teambuilding/meeting management, and
psychological types (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), including masters
courses and executive seminars in Australia, Brazil, and Chile. |
| Mediation: | Five years on staff at the Center for Conflict Resolution.
Mediator at three mediation programs and founder and former president
of Try Resolution Yourself, Inc., a county-based mediation program.
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| Organizational Development: |
Organizational
climate analyses employing structure interviews and Nominal Group
Technique for a variety of organizations, including a large-scale
study for the Wisconsin Dept. of Health & Human Services.
Systems analysis for health care and technical organizations. |
| Research/Scholarship: | Over
fifty journal articles and conference papers on negotiation/mediation/conflict
management, decision making, problem formulation, organizational
meetings and group technologies, including articles in Management
Science, Strategic Management Journal, Mediation Quarterly, Human
Relations, Behavioral Science, The International Executive, Journal
of Social Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior. Comparative
studies of Brazilian, Mexican, and United States negotiation/mediation
practices. Software for managing teams, groups, and meetings (1990),
and two books on bargaining and negotiation (The Negotiation Toolkit,
AMACOM, 1999, and Leverage: How to Get It and How to Keep It in
Any Negotiation, AMACOM, 2006). |
| Relevant Awards: | Best Paper Nomination, Eastern Academy of Management, Cape Town, South Africa, 2005. Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, Iberoamerican Academy of Management Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2003. Fulbright Senior Specialist, 2002-2007. Best Paper Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Washington, D.C., 2001. Robert Kogod Research Fellow, Kogod School of Business, American University, 2000-2001. Thunderbird Best Paper Award, Annual Meeting of the Business Association for Latin American Studies, Monterrey, Mexico, 1996. University Research Awards, American University, Spring 1989, Spring 1990, Summer 1996. Summer Research Award, American University, Summer 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999. Fulbright Scholar (Department of Business Administration, Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Summer 1988).
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