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b'Someone makes an inappropriate comment, maybe a racist or sexist joke.\\xa0 You feel uncomfortable and hope that someone else will speak up.\\xa0 Everyone hopes that someone else will speak up.\\xa0 Uncomfortable silence falls.\\xa0 What does it take for active bystanders to speak up?\\xa0 When they do so, they can often avert brewing conflict. Learn more about how people can become active bystanders through awareness and practice.\\n\\nFor Further Reading:\\xa0\\xa0Bystander Training and Bystander Awareness\\n\\n\\n\\nMaureen Scully is a Professor of Management and is currently the Interim Dean at the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston.\\xa0 She coined the term "tempered radicals," with Debra Meyerson, to study how change agents inside the workplace take actions that push boundaries and make a difference.\\xa0 She conducts training workshops on how to be an active bystander \\u2013 in universities, businesses, non-profits, and everyday life.\\xa0 Maureen is a coauthor of a textbook widely used in MBA programs, Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes, now in its 3rd edition, and a coeditor of a volume on gendered approaches to work and change, Reader in Gender, Work and Organization.\\n\\nFor more information:\\xa0 Dr. Maureen A. Scully'