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Jeanne M. Brett
DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr., Professor of Dispute
Resolution and Organizations
Director of the Dispute Resolution Research Center
Management and Organizations
B.A.
1967, History, Southern Methodist University;
A.M. 1969, Labor and Industrial Relations, University
of Illinois, Ph.D. 1972 Industrial/Organizational
Psychology, University of Illinois
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Positions Held |
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Kellogg
School of Management, Northwestern University 1976 to
present.
DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr., Professor of Dispute Resolution
and Organizations, 1989 to present.
Director and a founder of the Dispute Resolution Research
Center, 1986 to present. The Center has received major
funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
and the Alan and Mildred Peterson Foundation.
Also taught at the University of Illinois 1972-1975;
the University of Michigan 1975-1976; the University
of Aix-Marseille, France, 1990; Essec, France, 1996;
Keio University, Japan, 1998; Beijing University, China,
2000 and 2001.
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| Academic
Accomplishments |
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Prof.
Brett initiated Kellogg's course in negotiations in 1981.
She started the cross-cultural negotiations course in
1997. She is the editor of the Dispute Resolution Research
Center's Teaching Materials for negotiations and dispute
resolution and decision making used by business, law,
psychology and public policy professors around the world.
She is an author of over 50 articles and four books. Union
Repersentation Elections: Law and Reality, Causal Analysis:
Assumptions, Models and Data, and Getting Disputes Resolved:
Designing a System to Cut the Costs of Conflict,
which received the 1988 Center for Public Resources Award
for excellence and innovation in alternative dispute resolution,
and Negotiating Globally which won the International
Association for Conflict Management's Outstanding Book
Award in 2002. |
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| Courses
/ Topics Taught |
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MBA
and TMP IEMP: Negotiations and Cross-cultural Negotiations.
Allen Center Executive Programs: Negotiation Strategies
for Managers; Merger Week. |
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| Career
and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards |
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1989
the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award in Organization
Behavior for "outstanding contributions to pedagogy
and teaching in the field of organizational behavior"
from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. 1993
outstanding professor of the year from The Managers' Program.
2001 Kellogg Alumni Choice Award for lasting academic
contribution, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
University. 2001 Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations,
University of Illinois, Outstanding Alumni Award. 2003
Academy of Management Outstanding Educator Award. |
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| Research
Areas |
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Prof.
Brett is a psychologist. Her research contributions are
eclectic. She has studied union organizing campaigns,
identifying the importance of employee attitudes in making
decisions whether to vote for or against union representation,
See Union Representation Elections: Law and Reality with
Julius G. Getman, and Stephen B. Goldberg. She has studied
the causes of wildcat strikes and the effectiveness of
grievance mediation in the Appalachian coal fields, developing
the interests, rights and power theory of dispute resolution
and developing the process of systems design to intervene
in high conflict situations. See Getting Disputes Resolved:
Designing Systems to Cut the Costs of Conflict with William
L. Ury and Stephen B. Goldberg received the 1988 CPR Institute
for Dispute Resolution award for excellence and innovation
in alternative dispute resolution. She has examined work
and family issues ranging from relocation to the advancement
and retention of female managers. See Brett, J. M., Stoh,
L. K., & Reiley, A. H. "What is it like being
a dual career manager in the 1990's?" in S. Zedeck
(Ed.), Work and Family Jossey Bass, 1992; and Brett, J.
M., & Stroh, L. K. "Women in Management: How
Far Have We Come?" Journal of Management Inquiry,
1999, 8, 392-398. She has contributed to the theory and
practice research design in particular, causal modeling.
See Causal Analysis: Assumptions, Models, and Data, Sage,
1982. |
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| Current
Projects |
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Prof.
Brett is traveling around the world doing research on
culture and negotiation. She is especially interested
in how negotiation strategy develops over time, emotions
in conflict and dispute resolution negotiations, the intervention
of third parties and the effects of culture. |
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