LEADER LEARNING ASIA

Dean Tjosvold (PhD. University of Minnesota) is the Henry Y. W. Fong Chair Professor, Management Department, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has also taught at Pennsylvania State University, Simon Fraser University, and has been a visiting professor at National University of Singapore, the State University of Groningen in The Netherlands, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and City University of Hong Kong. He is past president of the International Association of Conflict Management. In 1992, Simon Fraser University awarded him a University Professorship for his research contributions. He received the American Education Research Association’s Outstanding Contribution to Cooperative Learning Award in 1998. His review of cooperative and competitive conflict was recognized as the best article in Applied Psychology: An International Review for 1998. He was elected to the Academy of Management Board of Governors in 2004. He has also received outstanding paper awards from the International Association of Conflict Management.

He has published over 200 articles, 20 books, 30 book chapters, and 100 conference papers. With colleagues, he has written books on teamwork, leadership, and conflict management in China published in Chinese. His books have been selected by Fortune, Business Week, Newbridge, and Executive Book Clubs and translated into Chinese and Spanish. He is now Associate Editor, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Asian editor, the Journal of World Business, and has served on several editorial boards, including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. He is a partner in his family’s health care business that has 900 employees and is based in Minnesota, USA.

The following resources are extracted from a presentation by Professor Dean Tjosvold and segments from one interview on the theme of Conflict Management in the Asia Pacific.