Category: Conflict
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The Peculiarities of Conflict Resolution
Speaking from experience, a conflict has been part of my daily diet. I have been in the corporate field for 4 years, and I have encountered various and numerous conflicts with my manager and subordinates. Not just petty ones but conflicts that can lead to potential business losses. I have been resolving these using plain…
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Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace
After the practical, I realized I could look at conflict from a different point of view – a game of strategy and something to rise above instead of something to just fear. I learnt about ‘The Drama Triangle’ which involves the persecutor, rescuer and victim. The persecutor is someone who only acts in their own…
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Conflict Sensitivity and Creative Conflict Transformation: Appropriate Dispute Resolution
We’ve all been in situations where we suddenly find ourselves flying in a fit of rage, fueled by uncontrollable emotions and frustration. Things start to escalate, and before you know it, you end up uttering hurtful words and doing things that will leave a permanent scar on what once were healthy relationships. To make things…
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Solving Conflict in the Workplace with Team Building Activities
Lance Best is the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel and after speaking with his company’s general counsel, Nina Kelk, he has decided that he has a problem. His CFO, Damon Ewen, and his Head of Sales, Ahmed Lund, have been at odds for quite a while. However, the tip of the iceberg was the 360…
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Conflict, Influence, and Power Solving
In marriages, conflict naturally occurs during a long period of time as both partners have lost similar interest or challenges individual face in their life together. Conflict is the opposition of incompatible need. In a companionate marriage, it the interdependence that a great expectation will be achieved by both partners needs. In the Conflict theory…
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Underlying Causes of Conflict Using the Pillar Method
The conflict transformation entails moving relations that sustain violence, whereas conflict management approaches endeavors to control and contain conflict, and therefore, conflict resolution models are steered towards shifting resolution towards affirmative results. The implications to unveil the main causes of conflict is to envision the flow of social conflict, building affirmative change procedures and mitigating…
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The Aspects of Group Conflict
Sheriff’s experiment and study of inter-conflict formed the major base for the study of intergroup conflict. This experiment which he conducted made him to be the founder and father of social judgments theory which has been researched by any sociologist and psychologist to comprehend on the finding which he made. In this article the profound…
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The Effect of Conflict on Access to Education
Education has been an integral factor contributing to the development of humankind since the outset. For ages, the drive to learn more about the surroundings and our curiosity has prodded us to seek education. Today, schooling has become an intrinsic part of a man’s life and education is being known as a basic right in…
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The Minimum Wage Conflict
The minimum wage has been the topic of many recent conversations. This conflict has gained notoriety, and become a key issue in today’s political world. This has been an issue for years as low wage workers have had difficulty providing for themselves and their families on their current minimum wage income. The demand for higher…
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Is Conflict in an Organization a Negative or Positive Force?
Conflict can be defined when individuals or group members incompatibility leads to clashes due to different thought process, attitude, understanding, interests, requirements and perceptions. Each person has different ways on how they perceive and reacts to different situations. Peoples divergences can be explained in terms of ideas, believes, behaviour, needs, roles, religion, politics, relationships, emotions…