3.(Chapter 1) What are the main conflicts to be resolved in this problem?

The main conflicts that need to be resolved in this regard are arbitrary cuts
from the finance department and management ignoring actions that hurt the research
and development department of the engineering team.

1.(Chapter 2) Analyze the interests, rights, and power of each parties?

The parties prefer to negotiate and search for agreement rather than to fight
openly, have one side dominate and the other capitulate, permanently break off
contact, or take their dispute to a higher authority to resolve it. Negotiation occurs
when the parties prefer to invent their own solution for resolving the conflict, when
there is no fixed or established set of rules or procedures for how to resolve the
conflict, or when they choose to bypass those rules.