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Mitch Gordon Conflict and Negotiation Class WSU Final Presentation With All Citations
Mitch Gordon Conflict and Negotiation Class WSU Final Presentation With All Citations
FROM - I have to serve customers when they are From – I am forced to be on the contractor’s schedule.
ready TO – Is there flexibility? Can we find balance TO – Both the contractor and my waitstaff are important
between schedule and personal attention
Job Assignments
Job Assignments
FROM – It’s my company, I’ll hire who I want. TO
FROM – I must be assigned; I deserve it. TO – It would There are certain criteria to cover for each job and I
want to work with waitstaff so we can mutually
help if there was a way to understand how/why I am
understand that for each assignment.
assigned.
Scheduling/cancelling
Scheduling/cancelling
FROM – If you want to work here, show loyalty and
FROM – I must have at least a week’s notice either come when I tell you. TO – It would be easier to
way. TO – The more notice the better, I want to work schedule with more notice when waitstaff also consider
here, and it helps when my family situation is the impact of their last-minute cancellations.
considered.
Conflict Resolution Dialogue and Active Listening
Roger Fisher, et al suggest as a consultant:
• Separate the people from the problem,
• Engage listening,
Face the
• Be nonjudgmental, Problem
• Find and see the best in the other, and develop curiosity in
difficult situations, “Don’t hear attack”
NOTE: Results for the studies demonstrate for best results to eliminate question 7 from the scale
Miriam Benitez, et al, MDPI, Journal Article
Resources - Bibliography
Blogposts
Katie Shonk, March 9, 2023, When Dealing with Difficult People, Try a Complementary Approach,
Harvard Program on Negotiation (PON),
https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/dealing-with-difficult-people-daily/when-dealing-with-difficult-p
eople-try-a-complementary-approach/
Interview with Professor of Business at Harvard Business School about writing a fiction book using
negotiation skills in it.
https://www.pon.harvard.edu/free-videos/the-peacemakers-code/
Images
Unsplash, Free downloadable images, royalty free, https://unsplash.com/
Continued Articles/Publications
Peer Review / Journal Articles
Miriam Benitez, Jose M. Leon-Perez, Alejandro Orgambidez, Francisco J. Medina, July 31, 2021, MDPI, Interpersonal Conflicts in the
Unit Impact the Service Quality Rated by Customers: The Mediating Role of Work-Unit Well-Being,
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/15/8137
Christine Porath, November 9, 2022, Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2022/11/frontline-work-when-everyone-is-angry
Marissa Orlowski, Kevin S. Murphy & Denver Severt, Pages 218-237 | Published online: July 29, 2016
Commitment and conflict in the restaurant industry: Perceptions from the Generation Y viewpoint
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15378020.2016.1206772
Bill Ryan, Emily Ma, Aaron Hsiao, Minyen Ku, March 2015, Vol. 22, pgs 10-18, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, The
work-family conflict of university foodservice managers: An exploratory study of its antecedents and consequences,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1447677014000242
Valeriya Shapoval, Kevin S. Murphy & Denver Severt, Pages 591-609 | Published online: Sep 27, 2018, Does service quality really matter at Green
restaurants for Millennial consumers? The moderating effects of gender between loyalty and satisfaction
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15378020.2018.1483698?src=recsys
Robert R. Wright, Brigham Young University–Idaho; Ashley E. Nixon, Willamette University; Zachary B. Peterson, Brigham Young University–
Idaho; Sharon V. Thompson and Ryan Olson, Oregon Health & Science University; Scott Martin and Devon Marrott, Brigham Young University–
Idaho, PSI CHI Journal of Psychological Research, The Workplace Interpersonal Conflict Scale: An Alternative in Conflict Assessment,
ResearchGate, Jan 2017, file:///C:/Users/Mitch%20Gordon/Downloads/Wrightetal.2017.pdf
Continued
Book resources (both from class and other)
Chris Argyris, Dec. 2007, Knowledge for Action: A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change
BCcampus, Working in the Food Service Industry by The BC Cook Articulation Committee is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted ,
https://opentextbc.ca/workinginfoodserviceindustry/chapter/conflict-resolution/ (book/campus book Chapter 21, this is a peer
reviewed book) 2015
Dana Casperson, Jan 27, 2015, Changing the Conversation: 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution
Roger Fisher and Dr. Daniel Shapiro, Sept 26, 2006, Beyond Reason, Using Emotions as You Negotiate
Roger Fisher and William Ury, April 30, 1992, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In
Doug Stone, Sheila Heen, William Ury, March 2000, Difficult Conversations
William Ury, March 2007, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
Joshua Weiss and William Ury, August 25, 2020, The Book of Real-World Negotiations: Successful Strategies from Business,
Government, and Daily Life