Barbara Bunker

Institution University at Buffalo Current Position Professor Emerita of Psychology Highest Degree Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Columbia University, 1970 Research Interests Applied Social Psychology Conflict Resolution Culture/Ethnicity Gender Group Processes Interpersonal Processes Organizational Behavior Courses Taught Cross-Cultural Psychology Organization Change and Development Psychology of Work Small Group Process   Barbara Bunker Department of Psychology University at Buffalo, Park Hall Buffalo, New York 14260-4110 United States Home Page Phone: (716) 881-2166 Fax: (716) 881-4222 My scholarly contributions are in three major areas. First, as an organizational/social psychologist, I have focused on planned change processes in groups and organizations. My most recent work has been in mapping a new field of intervention practice, Large Group Interventions, which are ways for the whole organization to come together and participate in decisions. I began this work with a special issue of The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, in 1992. I published Large Group Interventions: Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change (with Billie Alban)in 1997 that describes all the methods currently available and compares them. In March 2005, we published another special issue of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science on current uses of Large Group Methods. In Spring 2006, we published the Handbook of Large Group Methods. Closely aligned with investigations of organizational change is my interest in the changing role of women in work organizations. In 1998, I .studied a new generation of senior executive women in Japan (parallel to work I did in Japan in the 1980s). I have also studied women and competition and commuting couples. I have also been conceptualizing and doing research on trust in organizations, a requirement for collaborative change efforts. In several book chapters (with Roy Lewicki), we have developed a staged model of trust development and types of trust. In 2007, I did field research on a faculty and staff diversity initiative at Purdue University which involved the whole university and led to significant changes. I expect that study to be published by the Purdue Press in Fall 2008 Books: Bunker, B. B. (in press). The Purdue Faculty and Staff Diversity Initiative. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Press. Bunker, B. B., & Alban, B. T. (2006). The handbook of large group methods: Creating systemic change in organizations and communities. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Bunker, B. B., & Alban, B. T. (1997). Large group interventions: Engaging the whole system for rapid change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Bunker, B. B., & Rubin, J. Z. (Eds.). (1995). Conflict, cooperation, and justice: Essays in honor of Morton Deutsch. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Journal Articles: Bunker, B. B., & Alban, B. (Eds.). (1992). Large group interventions. Special issue of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 28, 4. Bunker, B. B., Zubek, J. M., Vanderslice, V. J., & Rice, R. W. (1992). Quality of life in dual-career families: Commuting versus single-residence couples. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 54, 399-407. Other Publications: Lewicki, R. J., & Bunker, B. B. (2005). Developing and maintaining trust in working relationships. In R. M. Kramer & T. Tyler (Eds.), Trust in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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