Loyola Maryland’s Busch Lecture to look at workplace relationships

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Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business will present the 2023 Busch Lecture: “Why Are Positive Relationships at Work Vital for Success and Well-being?” Oct. 13 at 2 p.m., a panel discussion led by Jessica Methot, Ph.D., associate professor of human resource management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.

The discussion will take place in the 4th Floor Program Room in the Andrew White Student Center at Loyola (4501 N. Charles St.) and is free and open to the public.

Methot, also a distinguished research professor of management at the University of Exeter Business School in the United Kingdom, will lead the panel in a discussion of the benefits of building positive relationships at work. She conducts research on interpersonal workplace relationships and social network dynamics, including how formal human resources practices transform informal social networks and the functional and dysfunctional consequences of workplace relationships. Her research has been published in academic journals and featured in more than 300 popular media outlets.

Other panelists include:

• Kevin Rockman, Ph.D., professor of management at George Mason University, studies working relationships in organizations, including how relationships are generated, maintained, and dissolve. He teaches and consults in the areas of relational leadership, cultivating high quality relationships and negotiation and conflict management.
• Christopher G. Myers, Ph.D., associate professor of management and organization and founding faculty director of the Center for Innovative Leadership at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, focuses on individual learning, leadership development, and innovation. He holds joint appointments in Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health.
• Michael J. Tews, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Hospitality Management at Penn State University, teaches courses in human resource management and focuses on the application of industrial and organizational psychology to the hospitality industry. His work examines issues relating to employee recruiting and selection, training and development, and employee retention.
• John Michel, Ph.D., associate professor of management at Loyola’s Sellinger School of Business, is the Busch Faculty Scholar hosting the Busch Lecture this year.

The Busch Lecture, supported by the Anheuser-Busch Foundation, aims to feature leaders in business who have led innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives and are of interest to the academic, business, and civic communities. The Anheuser-Busch Foundation also designates a Busch Scholar, a faculty member who conducts and publishes high-quality research in a business discipline.