Conflict Research and Academic Papers: Understanding Conflict Research and Academic Papers

The enactment and management of conflict
By Izabella I. Waszkielewicz and Jennifer Mandelbaum - This study compares the initiation, development, escalation of, and resistance to conflict in two diverse settings: A family's Thanksgiving Dinner, and a conversation between physician reviewers reviewing surgeon's proposals for surgery. Using conversation analysis, the study finds that conflict is covert in the professional setting, where the problem focus in clear, yet overt in the family setting. The difference stems from the ways in which recipients of provocative comments choose to respond to them, and shows that conflict, despite involving disagreement, requires the cooperation of conflicting parties. (Added: 19-Dec-2005 Hits: 1133 )

Workplace Conflict: Facts and Figures
By John Ford - It is estimated that 30% of a managers time is spent dealing with conflict, and that Fortune 500 company executives are involved in litigation related activity 20% of their time. Increasingly companies are turning to mediation and other ADR techniques to resolve workplace conflict. (Added: 12-Aug-2005 Hits: 2179 )

Conflict Management In Community Organizations, L-701
By Ohio State University - High quality and extensive discussion of conflict management in community organizations. Covers types of conflict, dimensions of conflict, situations where conflict is likely to occur and more. (Added: 12-Jul-2004 Hits: 1566 )

Gender, Culture, Organizational Role and Styles of Conflict Resolution: A Meta-Analysis
By Holt & DeVore - Research paper undertakes a meta-analysis of conflict resolution research using the Blake and Mouton dual concerns theory, and related instruments. (Added: 12-Jul-2004 Hits: 1358 )

Conflict management style: accounting for cross-national differences
By Morris, Michael W.; Williams, Katherine Y. Leung, Kwok - Extensive research study looking at conflict across countries and cultures. Examines values, styles, as contributors to conflict and much more. (Added: 12-Jul-2004 Hits: 981 )

Journal of Social Issues: Three Models of Conflict Resolution: Effects on Intergroup Expectancies and Attitudes
By Susan Cross - Research study investigating the effectiveness of three different methods and models for conflict resolution - distributive bargaining, integrative bargaining, and interactive problem solving models of conflict resolution. (Added: 12-Jul-2004 Hits: 1490 )

Generational Conflict: A New Paradigm for Teams of the 21st Century
By H.B. Karp, Ph.D. and Danilo Sirias, Ph.D. - From Gestalt Review, this research examines the effects of different generations on conflict within teams. Compares baby boomers and generation x on orientation to teamwork. Surprising results. (Added: 12-Jul-2004 Hits: 1400 )

The Legacy of Parents' Marital Discord: Consequences for Children's Marital Quality
By APA - Research study examining how discord between parents in marriage affects the ability of their children to have positive marriages themselves. (Added: 7-Jul-2004 Hits: 568 )

Conflict is inevitable - Different Approaches for Conflict Management
By Bradley Stott - This research paper presents theories, techniques, programs and research related to conflict management/resolution in schooling focused on the areas of cooperative learning, program implementation, controversy, and peer mediation (Added: 6-Jul-2004 Hits: 964 )

Journal of Social Issues: Three Models of Conflict Resolution: Effects on Intergroup Expectancies and Attitudes.
By Susan Cross - Gordon Allport (1960) once noted that there are many different approaches to conflict resolution, but that few empirical studies have been conducted to examine their effectiveness. This experiment was designed to evaluate the distributive bargaining, integrative bargaining, and interactive problem solving models of conflict resolution, using intergroup expectancies and attitudes as dependent measures. Jewish and Arab students were paired into mixed-ethnicity dyads to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian dispute about Jerusalem according to one of the three models. (Added: 15-Jan-2004 Hits: 532 )

Issues in the Definition and Conceptualization of Politeness
By Evalina Dimitrova-Galaczi - Excellent discussion (in pdf format) of the concept of politeness (and face) and the challenges in defining what is and isn't polite. (Added: 15-Jan-2004 Hits: 611 )

Conflict Talk: A Discourse Analytical Perspective
By Santoi Leung - This paper surveys research in the area of conflict talk, focusing on discourse analytical studies of actual, naturally occurring conflict talk. The paper begins with a brief discussion on how conflict talk has been conceptualized. Then the scope of the paper is defined as focusing on discourse analytical studies that examine actual instances of conflict talk within a framework of argument as a situated, local interactional accomplishment. Next, some of the mechanisms and important factors by which conflict talk can be initiated, maintained or escalated, and terminated are reviewed. (Added: 15-Jan-2004 Hits: 1256 )

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