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Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Research Seminar

Area Administration Defensiveness is a pervasive challenge in organizational life. It emerges when leaders resist feedback, when teams deflect accountability, and when organizations develop routines that insulate them from change. While management research treats defensiveness as a negative response, psychological research reveals a more complex picture, one in which defensiveness serves protective and adaptive roles for individuals. This paper integrates insights from both disciplines to offer a more dynamic perspective on the mechanisms of defensiveness in organizations. Based on an integrative review of 323 peer-reviewed articles, we address four primary questions: What is defensiveness? What triggers defensiveness? How does defensiveness unfold in organizations? What are effective ways to manage defensiveness? Our research uncovers a core paradox: defensiveness may offer short-term relief to individuals, but it creates dysfunction in the systems it aims to protect. Understanding this paradox is key to breaking the cycle. Subtitle: Behind The Wall: An Integrative Review of Defensiveness at Work. Speaker Details: Associate Professor Jeffrey Yip Simon Fraser University Jeffrey Yip is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Studies at Simon Fraser University. His research addresses managerial challenges in work relationships and leadership. He teaches leadership in the Executive MBA and executive programs on Digital Transformation and AI-Empowered Leadership. A Fulbright scholar, he received his Ph.D. in Management from Boston University and a Master’s in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard… Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Organisational Behaviour. Audience: Academic Community. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM. Lee Kong Chian School of Business Level 5, Meeting Room 5.4 50 Stamford Road Singapore 178899.

Finance Research Seminar

Area Administration This research explores how human-defined goals influence the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) through purpose-conditioned cognition. Using financial prediction tasks, we show that revealing the downstream use (e.g. predicting stock returns or earnings) of LLM outputs leads the LLM to generate biased sentiment and competition measures, even though these measures are intended to be downstream task–independent. Goal-aware prompting shifts intermediate measures toward the disclosed downstream objective. This purpose leakage improves performance before the LLM’s knowledge cutoff, but with no advantage post-cutoff. AI bias due to “seeing the goal” is not an algorithmic flaw, but stems from human accountability in research design to ensure the statistical validity and reliability of AI-generated measurements. Subtitle: Seeing the Goal, Missing the Truth: Human Accountability for AI Bias. Speaker Details: Associate Professor Sean Cao University of Maryland Please click here to view profile. Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Academic Community. Monday, February 23, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM. Lee Kong Chian School of Business Level 1, Seminar Room 1.1 50 Stamford Road Singapore 178899.

SMU LKCSB Coffee Sessions (Osaka, Japan)

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: Monday, 23 February 2026 12pm - 4pm (JST) (half-hourly sessions) 6pm - 8pm (JST) (half-hourly sessions). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-034f/t/page/fm/2. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to discover how our programmes, with a strong focus on leadership and management can support your personal and professional aspirations. Our Admissions Advisor will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly n… Contact: lkcsbpg.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Public. Prospective Student. Monday, February 23, 2026, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Starbucks Coffee ー LINKS UMEDA 2F Ofukacho, 1−1 ヨドバシ梅田タワ Osaka, Kita Ward, 〒530-0011, Japan.

SMU LKCSB Coffee Sessions (Tokyo, Japan)

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: Wednesday, 25 February 2026 12pm - 4pm (JST) (half-hourly sessions) 6pm - 8pm (JST) (half-hourly sessions). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-034f/t/page/fm/2. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to discover how our programmes, with a strong focus on leadership and management can support your personal and professional aspirations. Our Admissions Advisor will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly n… Contact: lkcsbpg.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Public. Prospective Student. Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Excelsior Caffé Kyobashi, 1 Chome−3−5 三井ガーデンホテル１Ｆ Chuo City, Tokyo, 〒104-0031, Japan.

MEI virtual coffee session (Singapore)

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: 5PM - 8PM SGT (half-hourly sessions). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-0382/t/page/fm/3. Event Details: We welcome you to discover how our postgraduate programmes, with emphasis on leadership and management training, can help boost your career. Admissions Advisors will speak with you directly to address your concerns and discuss how our suite of Master programmes can fulfil your academic and career aspirations. To do a pre-application assessment of your profile, please send us a copy of your resume. Virtual This session will be held virtually. To improve security, Zoom sign… Contact: mei.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Prospective Student. Public. Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM.

SMU MAF/MQF Hybrid Coffee session

MAF Infosessions Hourly Sessions: Thursday, 26 February 2026 Virtual: 10am - 6pm (SGT) (hourly sessions) Physical: 6pm-8pm (SGT) (hourly sessions). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-037a/t/page/fm/2. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to discover how our programmes, with a strong focus on leadership and management can support your personal and professional aspirations. Our Admissions Advisor will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly n… Contact: lkcsbpg.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Public. Prospective Student. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM. Singapore Management University Lee Kong Chian School of Business Level 4, Postgraduate Office 50 Stamford Road Singapore 178899 We will be sending the zoom link 2 hours before the start of the event. You are required to download the Zoom app & sign.

SMU MIM Virtual Masterclass: AI and Future Jobs

Infosession Hourly Sessions: 6PM - 7:15PM (Singapore Time). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-0387/t/page/fm/3. Event Details: SMU MIM Virtual Masterclass: AI and Future Jobs, Speaker: Prof. Geng Xue Song Synopsis: How is AI reshaping work—and how should you prepare? This talk distills recent evidence on occupational trends in the AI era. Roles built on routine, standardized analysis and predictable workflows face the greatest pressure, while value rises for capabilities machines don’t possess: framing problems, exercising judgment, navigating ethics, and collaborating across teams. Ask yourself: if AI can generate your typical… Contact: mim.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Prospective Student. Public. Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM.

SMU Professional Doctorates Hybrid Information Session & Current Student Sharing

Infosessions Hourly Sessions: 7-8.30 PM (Singapore time). RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://postgraduate.smu.edu.sg/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/11522/p/p-039a/t/page/fm/2. Event Details: We welcome you to find out more about the Professional Doctorate programmes we have here in SMU’s Lee Kong Chian School of Business. We offer two Professional Doctorate programmes that can be completed in 3-5 years while working: PhD in Business (General Management) , Doctor of Business Administration, The session will be hosted on Zoom and a physical session happening concurrently. Hence, this would be a hybrid session. * Participants that are registering for the session via the Zoom platform, please… Contact: lkcsbpd.admissions@smu.edu.sg. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Business. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Prospective Student. Public. Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM. Meeting Room 5-4 (Level 5) SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business 50 Stamford Road, Singapore 178899 Singapore.