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What is Conflict?
Intergroup conflict
Interorganizational conflict
Constructive and Destructive Conflict
Constructive Conflict
It offers the people involved a chance to
identify otherwise neglected problems and
opportunities, creativity and performance as
a results
Destructive Conflict
decrease work productivity and job
satisfaction and contribute to absenteeism
and job turnover
Conflict Situations
Vertical Conflict: commonly involves supervisor-
subordinate disagreements over resources, goals, deadlines
or performance results
Antecedent
Condition
Perceived
Felt Conflict
Conflict
Manifest Conflict
Conflict resolution
Conflict aftermath
Conflict Management Approach
Attitudes:
each party must trust the other party
each party must be willing to share information
each party must be willing to ask concrete questions of the other
party
behaviors
the ability to separate the people from the problem
the ability to focus on interests rather than positions
the ability to avoid making premature judgment
the ability to judge possible agreements on an objective criteria
Common Pitfalls in Negotiation