{"id":489,"date":"2019-06-11T09:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/?p=489"},"modified":"2019-06-11T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:23:30","slug":"leveraging-diverse-teams-meet-your-instructors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/2019\/06\/11\/leveraging-diverse-teams-meet-your-instructors\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging Diverse Teams: Meet Your Instructors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>&#8220;Dear Class of 2021 &#8211; Greetings from Marlys and Jia Lin, the instructors for the course Leveraging Diverse Teams (LDT). We are excited to meet you during Kick-Off when we launch a new and exciting course. You&#8217;ll have an opportunity to connect with your new colleagues, raise self-awareness of\u00a0your own social and personal work-style, and maximize your ability to collaborate and succeed in teams.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>You&#8217;ll receive more information about the LDT course in mid-July, so please keep an on eye on the Pre-Program Portal. In the meantime, we are very much looking forward to working with you in your teams this upcoming August!&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><em>-Marlys Christianson and Jia Lin Xie, LDT Instructors<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/files\/2018\/06\/Christianson-M.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-491 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/files\/2018\/06\/Christianson-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/files\/2018\/06\/Christianson-M.jpg 200w, https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/files\/2018\/06\/Christianson-M-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotman.utoronto.ca\/FacultyAndResearch\/Faculty\/FacultyBios\/Christianson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marlys Christianson<\/a>\u00a0is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Rotman. She received a PhD in Management &amp; Organizations from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the coordination of complex and interdependent work, sensemaking in high-risk environments, and resilient organizing, particularly as it relates to error detection and correction. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets, including <em>Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Management Inquiry<\/em>, <em>Journal of Organizational Behavior<\/em>, <em>Organizational Research Methods, <\/em>and <em>Organization Science<\/em>.<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/files\/2018\/06\/Xie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/files\/2018\/06\/Xie.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/files\/2018\/06\/Xie.jpg 200w, https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/files\/2018\/06\/Xie-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotman.utoronto.ca\/FacultyAndResearch\/Faculty\/FacultyBios\/Xie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jia Lin Xie<\/a> is&nbsp;Magna Professor in Management and Professor of Organizational Behaviour and HR Management at Rotman. Her research focuses on the fit between employees and their work environment (P-E fit) and the effects of such fit and misfit on employee well-being. Another area of her research expertise is cross-cultural management, with a focus on Chinese organizational behavior. Jia Lin has served at editorial boards for <em>Journal of Organizational Behavior<\/em> (2006-2011) and <em>Management and Organization Review<\/em> (2003 and onward), and currently serves as the President for International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dear Class of 2021 &#8211; Greetings from Marlys and Jia Lin, the instructors for the course Leveraging Diverse Teams (LDT). We are excited to meet you during Kick-Off when we launch a new and exciting course. You&#8217;ll have an opportunity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/2019\/06\/11\/leveraging-diverse-teams-meet-your-instructors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.rotman.utoronto.ca\/news4pre-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}