Competition and Cooperation in the Workplace

Competition is inherent in organizational life and, in light of advancing technology, it is infiltrating the modern workplace more than ever before. Whether it is competition between firms, groups, or employees, people care a great deal about how they stack up to others. Through integrating scholarly research and reflecting on organizational examples and case studies, the goal of this webinar is to advance your understanding of how hierarchies and status shape individuals’ experiences and behaviors within organizations.

In this webinar, we will:

• Unpack the positive and negative outcomes that predictably emerge within hierarchical and contested environments
• Detail some of the factors that may aid organizational efforts to maximize the beneficial, and minimize the dysfunctional, outcomes associated with these hierarchical environments.
• Discuss how we can look ahead as COVID-19 continues to impact the way we communicate 

Sarah Doyle is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations who joined the Eller College of Management in 2017 after earning her PhD in Management and Human Resources from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on status, social hierarchy, interpersonal and intergroup relations, cooperation and competition and interpersonal helping. She has been published in Management Science, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and elsewhere. She is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM), the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) and the International Association for Conflict Management. Her research has won awards from AOM and INGRoup.