Management Professor Seeks Answers to Benefit Both the Workplace and Classroom If Dr. Beth Polin, associate professor of management at EKU, asks a question that hasn’t yet been answered, she sets out to find the answer. Her curiosity and love for learning drives her motivation for research and seeking answers. And as a professor, she’s able to share her findings with students in the classroom, giving them tools they need to go into the workplace and make a positive impact.
answers to give employees techniques they can use right away to maintain those positive working relationships. “Most of the time we don’t mean to break trust, but we’re human and it happens,” said Polin. “We have to aim for efficiency and effectiveness, and to get back on track, we have to repair the broken trust.” The easiest way to repair trust is through an apology –– a concept fueling Polin’s extensive research on effective apologies.
Polin’s research focuses mostly on conflict management and trust repair, because “it can have an immediate positive impact on Polin and co-authors published research on the already difficult situations.” She components of an apology a few years believes positive working ago. The research gained considerable relationships drive workplace national attention, earning mentions THE RESEARCH success, and therefore, seeks on The Today Show, Psychology GAINED CONSIDERABLE
NATIONAL ATTENTION, EARNING MENTIONS ON THE TODAY SHOW, PSYCHOLOGY TODAY, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, CBS NEWS, AND TEEN VOGUE, AMONG OTHERS.
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