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Managers and supervisors play special roles in helping their employees and organizations deal with conflict and manage it. Leadership is part of it, but so is mediating, negotiating, etc. Here you'll find help for managers and supervisors.

 

Conflict Advice and Readings In This Section

• Ignoring Employee Conflicts Can be Dangerous

  By na - Managers often ignore conflicts between employees hoping they will disappear or resolve themselves. Clashes between co-workers often begin as work-related issues then spiral into personal and emotional conflicts. Long-term disagreements can actually damage your company's culture, employee morale and overall productivity. Unfortunately, in this tight labor market, employees who might have left for another job if a conflict arose are unable to do so. This often results in escalating emotional situations in the workplace and more employee issues for managers. (Added: 13-Mar-2012 Hits: 60 )

• Managers must understand three resolution methods - Phoenix Business Journal:

  By na - In resolving conflict, no single approach works every time. This is what makes resolution so incredibly challenging. Whenever a particular workplace conflict occurs, the method of resolution chosen usually demonstrates the manager's ability to govern the environment. If the correct method is chosen, the outcome is generally positive: increased trust, communication, productivity and other benefits that come naturally with successful conflict resolution. (Added: 21-Sep-2009 Hits: 2883 )

• Surviving a high-maintenance employee

  By Bob Rosner - Here's some advice for managers on how to deal with a high performing employee who also happens to be a pain in the butt. (Added: 2-Oct-2006 Hits: 1156 )

• Five Habits of Highly Effective Conflict Resolvers (Expert Work Conflict Advice)

  By Dina Beach Lynch - Learn and apply these five highly effective habits of really excellent conflict resolvers, following along the Steven Covey theme about highly effective people. Particularly relevant to managers, supervisors and workplace conflict. (Added: 17-Mar-2006 Hits: 2137 )

• Assessing Workplace Conflict Resolution Options

  By Kirk Blackard - Conflict in the workplace is normal and healthy. A workplace devoid of tensions is ultimateky dull and stagnant, unlikely to foster creativity and growth. However, management's inability to resolve disputes effectively or prevent serious conflicts can be counterproductive. In this article, Kirk Blackard outlines various employment ADR options and their potential benefits its also presents a practical framework for assessing a company's capacity and ened for a dispute resolution system. The key to choosing a suitable system, he says is the ability to balance potential costs against potential benefits. (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 1041 )

• Ten Tips to Encourage Meaningful Conflict: Fight for What's Right

  By Susan M. Heathfield - Effectively managed conflict has many positive results for your organization. When people can disagree with each other and lobby for different ideas, your organization is healthier. Disagreements often result in a more thorough study of options and better decisions and direction. (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 462 )

• Managing Conflict in a Female Dominated Workplace

  By Tracy Douglas - For a long time, women's greatest challenge in the workplace was trying to break through the 'glass ceiling' and be treated equal to their male counterparts. While many would argue that a glass ceiling still exists, women have made tremendous strides in the past two decades. There are more women with full-time jobs than there were 20 years ago and more women than ever hold positions of power and influence in their places of work. However, having more women in the workplace can create new challenges. (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 962 )

• Extending The Olive Branch: Conflict Resolution Training Helps

  By Kathryn Tyler - Conflict resolution programs can defuse problems before they escalate to strikes or lawsuits, as well as improve employee morale, increase productivity, decrease absenteeism and lower turnover, proponents say. (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 762 )

• Workplace Conflict Resolution: People Management Tips

  By Susan M. Heathfield - Organization leaders are responsible for creating a work environment that enables people to thrive. If turf wars, disagreements and differences of opinion escalate into interpersonal conflict, you must intervene immediately. Not intervening is not an option if you value your organization and your positive culture. (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 2108 )

• Are Difficult Workers Worth It? (California Job Journal)

  By Michael Kinsman - There's probably a Terrell Owens-type in your office or workplace. And he or she might be eating away at company morale. (Added: 18-Jan-2006 Hits: 358 )

• Brave Leadership In Organizational Conflict

  By Kenneth Bailey - Conflict within a nonprofit organization can be scary. At their best, nonprofits put into collective practice the personal passions and beliefs of their members. This may intensify a conflict or, conversely, cause it to be buried in the name of surface unity. Either way, intractable conflict can cause loss of funding or of leadership, or it may destabilize the system in any number of other ways. People within the organization know this and may react with fear, choosing sides or assigning blame. For the brave leaders of a nonprofit, what does it mean to handle conflict well? (Added: 15-Aug-2005 Hits: 469 )

• Measuring Conflict: Both The Hidden Costs and the Benefits of Conflict Management Interventions

  By John Ford - Providing the executive team with quantitative and qualitative data (as opposed to anecdotes) about the costs of conflict will build the HR manager's credibility as a business partner as there are significant hidden costs within employee conflicts, costs that an organization incurs long before a lawsuit is filed. (Added: 12-Aug-2005 Hits: 556 )

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