CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Conference Symposia Abstracts.

This section presents several conference symposia abstracts on conflict management. Denials, Deception, Apologies, and Actions: The Mechanics of Restoring Trust, facilitated by Maurice Schweitzer, explores the mechanics of repairing trust. In this symposium, the results from laboratory and field settings are reported and insight into the role of communication and actions play in restoring trust is offered. The symposium Justice for All? The Dark, The Gray and the Bright Sides of the Social Workplace, introduces fresh perspectives on social-organizational justice via a collection of six studies. The first two papers address the dark side of social workplace. They present research on aversive interpersonal workplace experiences and demonstrate how these experiences can harm individual employees. In the symposium entitled Organizational Justice: Views from the Cutting Edge, five of the field's leaders are invited to share their ideas about organizational justice and of its founders to offer commentary. Russell Cropanzano will outline a conceptualization that links justice to behavioral responses through the mechanics of discrete emotions. Robert Folger describes his research showing that people react emotionally to injustices that have no impact on themselves.