Ariel Avgar
Ph.D. Candidate
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Avgar’s dissertation, Treating Conflict: Dispute Resolution in the Healthcare Industry, will examine the organizational outcomes associated with different dispute resolution strategies and practices in hospitals. He has conducted an in-depth case study of a unique dispute resolution program initiated by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services in a large unionized hospital in Ohio. Avgar plans to conduct comparative research among other hospital sites during his time at PON.
Alexandra Crampton
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and Social Work
University of Michigan
Crampton is examining the meaning of empowerment in the mediation context, how mediation programs empower older adults and their families to reduce conflict and improve decision-making, and how elder mediation programs are similar and different in Ghana and the United States. Her dissertation is entitled Mediation as Intervention in Elder Advocacy: A Comparison of Mediation and Old Age in Ghana and the United States. Additionally, Crampton will study how mediation programs can be adapted given variation in sociocultural and economic contexts.
Fiona Greig
Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy and Doctoral Fellow
Center for International Development at Harvard University
Greig’s work focuses on gender inequality, behavioral economics, and international development. Her PON research proposal, entitled Optimizing Employment in the Prime of Life: The Constraints and Opportunities of Negotiation, investigates the role of negotiation in the career advancement and choices of women in a field setting – a major investment bank. Greig is exploring the degree to which propensity to negotiate differs according to gender and whether it is associated with the probability to leave the investment bank, advance to the executive level, and experience greater job satisfaction and happiness.
Carmit Tadmor
Ph.D. Candidate
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations at the
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
Tadmor’s thesis, Biculturalism: The Plus Side of Leaving Home? The Effects of Second-Culture Exposure on Integrative Complexity and its Consequences for Overseas Performance, delineates the factors that affect the adoption of specific acculturation strategies. It focuses on the power of second-culture exposure to stimulate integratively complex cognitions that give people the flexibility to shift rapidly from one cultural meaning system to another. Tadmor proposes a model that outlines the underlying mechanisms that determine acculturation choice and that produce both individual difference and situation variation in integrative complexity of social functioning.
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