Bacal & Associates - Helping People Solve Conflict for Two Decades
Conflict:
If you ever have the opportunity to ask the participants of a conflict what
the issues are, chances are good that each of them has 'framed' the issue
or issues completely differently for themselves. You can learn to identify
the various conflict frame types in order to manage conflict effectively
by checking out this category. Also available are some hints that will help
you de-escalate a conflict quickly, and some advice on resolving a conflict
between two managers.
By Stewart Levine
- In 1994, 18 million cases were filed in U.S. courts at a cost of $300 billion. 20% of Fortune 500 senior executives’ time is spent
in litigation-related activities. Imagine the tally that adds up to. It’s
commonplace for legal fees to exceed the value of the amount at stake. Years ago, if a situation had more than $100,000 at stake, litigation was a viable alternative. Today the benchmark is $1 million and growing quickly. Following the old paradigm is very costly!
The cost of conflict represents a resource drain of huge proportion and a source of great unhappiness and discomfort.
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By Christine Kemp-Longmore
- Conflict is an inevitable aspect of life. If the process of conflict resolution is viewed as an opportunity for growth and change in a work environment, the potential for a positive outcome is great. On an individual level, the ability to solve problems or manage change plays an important role in one's success. In the same way, the overall ability of a company to solve problems through collaborative efforts, has a strong impact on the organization's bottom line and overall success.pop
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By Wayne Burleson
- The following is a list of common mistakes that we all make at sometime when responding to conflict. If we can just take back our responsibility and become more aware of how negative some of our actions are, then we can learn to become better peacemakers. Our war-making effort lets conflict control our lives or even ruin them.pop
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By NA
- There are two major concerns in a conflict.
The first concern is achieving your personal goals. You are in conflict because you have a goal that conflicts with another personís goal. You goal may be highly important to you, or it may be of little importance.
The second concern is keeping a good working relationship with the other person. You may need to work effectively with the person in the future.
How important your personal goals are to you and how important the relationship is to you affects how you act in a conflict. Given these two concerns, five styles of managing conflicts can be identified. Includes quick questionnaire
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By George H. Tompson
- Various disciplines have offered prescriptions indicating that intragroup conflict is useful for enhancing group decision-making effectiveness. This paper will deconstruct the notion that intragroup conflict facilitates decision-making by exposing four assumptions that form the basis for the prescriptions that have been offered in the literature
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By NA
- Conflict assessment is the process of systematic collection of information about the dynamics of a conflict. The guides stress open-ended, participant-based data as the path to specifying conflict processes. Such approaches are particularly useful for third parties such as intervention agents and students wishing to study a particular conflict. As a party to the conflict, one can use the guides to collect information from himself or herself and the other party about the conflict. In either case, one needs to use primary information from the parties -for they are the ones who created and maintain the conflict.
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