Is Conflict Unhealthy?
So is conflict healthy or unhealthy? “If I had a formula for by-passing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates capacity to handle it. … But I do say meet it as…
Conflict Management
Myths About Teamwork
Wright (2013), in his seminal work on The Myths and Realities of Teamwork, advances the six myths about teamwork below. Myth 1 Teams are Harmonious People who Compromise their Needs for the Sake of Teams.…
Applying Conflict Resolution
Conflict resolution is the process of eliminating the underlying reasons for conflict. Conflict resolution falls into two broad approaches viz competitive and cooperative approaches. They are also referred to as integrative and distributive approaches. Within…
The Conflict Process
Workplace conflict is almost a fact of organizational life. It manifests as interpersonal, intergroup, and role conflicts. (Feigenbaum, n.d.), task conflict, relationship conflict and process conflict. (Robbins & Judge, 2013). Theorists do not agree on…
Conflict Resolution
Stangor (2011) describes conflict resolution in terms of the human motives of “self-concern” and “others concern”. The Dual Model of Cooperation and Competition incorporates these two concepts into a conflict model that explains the behavior…