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Emily Lean |
Union’s Own Receives Top Honor from Prestigious International Association
Sep 22, 2009 - The Academy of Management rewarded McAfee School of Business Professor Emily Lean and her co-authors with a very prestigious recognition this summer. The authors received recognition for the best paper of the year based on their 2008 publication in the Academy of Management Perspectives, a journal published by the Academy of Management. The article entitled “Coming into the Light: Intimate Partner Violence and its Effects at Work” confronts the effects of domestic violence in the workplace.
The Academy of Management presented the best paper of the year award at their 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The Academy of Management (www.aom.pace.edu) is an international management association composed of approximately 19,000 members spanning 108 nations. Members include scholars at colleges, universities, and research institutions as well as practitioners with scholarly interests from business, government, and not-for-profit organizations.
“I would simply like to say how grateful I am for such an unexpected blessing,” Lean commented. “To be nominated for such an award is an honor in itself, but to actually receive the award is a shock. I am happy and proud for myself but also for the recognition it brings to Union. Those in the management field understand what an honor this is for both myself, my co-authors, and our respective universities.”
The article focuses on how personal matters do not stay personal for long in today’s workplace. “OSHA regulations aside, managers are often unsure how to react once a employee’s relationship problems begin to spill over into the office,” Lean notes. “While it is NOT a manager’s job to try to counsel the abused employee, it is their duty to treat the employee with dignity and the situation with all seriousness. We’ve all heard stories of stalker girlfriends/boyfriends or overbearing spouses, but these things effect not only the employee in question but their coworkers as well. These issues can quickly progress from being a personal problem to being a production and security issue. The best advice for any person in this situation, manager or coworker, is to Recognize, Respond, and Refer.”
MCAFEE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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