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Personal Courage and Conflict Resolution at Work - Why People Avoid Conflict Resolution: Practicing personal courage is necessary if a person wants to really resolve conflicts at work. It is much easier and much safer to ignore the necessary conflict and play ostrich. Unfortunately, unresolved conflict tends to escalate. It never really disappears because it simmers just below the surface. Think of water...; Tags: Communication skills, conflict resolution; White papers
Effective Conflict Resolution: Conflicts can decrease productivity and cause unwarranted utilization of time and energy. Organizations must have effective methods for resolving conflicts that may arise either on a horizontal axis, that is, between individual managers or between workers or on a vertical axis, between workers and managers. Conflicts can exist between people...; Tags: Communication skills, conflict resolution, worker; White papers
Conflict Resolution in Ecological Negotiations: This paper investigates the functions of multilateral negotiations contributing to the resolution of ecological conflicts. The case study is global climate change. A conflict resolution systems framework organises the political preferences of a high power country and a low power regional alliance in United Nations (UN) environment and development negotiations....; Tags: Conflict Resolution, Analysis, Case Study, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution Systems Framework, Communication Skills, Free Trade, Career, Finance; White papers
Cooperation, Conflict Resolution, and School Violence: A Systems Approach: It is a mistake to assume that causes of school violence reside only or primarily in the school. Child abuse and neglect, a culture of violence, economic and social injustice, and the easy availability of weapons, for example, contribute to the occurrence of violence but are largely not under school...; Tags: violence, conflict resolution; White papers
A Verification-Based Conflict Resolution Strategy for Knowledge Management Systems: Knowledge Management Systems may store knowledge in many diverse forms such as people, intellectual assets, documents, databases, directories, and expert systems. When knowledge is integrated from a wide variety of sources, it is inevitable that conflicts between knowledge will occur. Many knowledge sources inherently constrain the stored knowledge for criteria...; Tags: Communication skills, Strategy, Knowledge management, Gale Group, knowledge management system, conflict resolution, knowledge, asset, database; White papers

Conflict Resolution Tip Sheet: Can't We All Just Get Along?: If one has to deal with and/or manage other people, one will, sooner or later, have to deal with conflict. Conflict is not inherently bad. In fact, conflict simply stems from differing viewpoints. Since no two people view the world exactly the same way, disagreement is quite normal. The reason...; Tags: Communication skills, conflict resolution; White papers
Conflict Resolution: Resolving Conflict Rationally and Effectively: In many cases, conflict in the workplace just seems to be a fact of life. Everyone has seen situations where different people with different goals and needs have come into conflict. And everyone has seen the often-intense personal animosity that can result. The fact that conflict exists, however, is not...; Tags: Communication skills, conflict resolution, workplace; White papers
Aikido and Conflict Resolution: Over a period of ten years, the author has been involved in countless conflict resolution programs, helping people to deal with their dysfunctional problem-solving ways. In all of these programs, Aikido has provided a base that helps people to examine and change their ways of dealing with stress and conflict....; Tags: Communication skills, conflict resolution, training; White papers
Time Management Skills, Communication Skills And Conflict Resolution - Which Approach Saves You Time: Finding time is a challenge even in the best situations. What happens when your coworkers approach time completely differently than you do? Punctuality, planning and procrastination conflicts can undermine projects if they are not addressed. However, you can learn how to utilize this to everyone's mutual benefit. Approaching conflicting outlooks...; Tags: Communication skills, Leadership, conflict resolution, communication skill, time management, benefit; White papers 2008-03-26
Conflict Resolution for Men: The person who can get through life without conflict has yet to be born. Conflicts in communication can result from off-hand remarks, deliberate attacks or genuine misunderstandings. The result can be misery, stress, depression, loss of sleep, etc, all of which may serve to escalate already tense and often unnecessary...; Tags: Communication skills, conflict resolution, strategy; White papers 2006-09-13
Conflict Resolution at Home and Work: Look for the Learning Opportunities: Effective conflict resolution is a combination of self-reflection outside the "Hot moments" of a dispute, regular practice of a few key basic skill sets, commitment to long-term improvement in the way an individual engages conflict, and most importantly, a learning frame of mind during a dispute. Engaging in conflict as...; Tags: Communication skills, conflict resolution; White papers 2006-09-11
Qualitative Voting In Conflict Resolution Situations: Qualitative Voting is an alternative to the Majority Rule that endows agents with a certain number of votes that can be freely distributed between a set of issues that have to be approved or dismissed. In Conflict Resolution situations where two parties with opposed preferences need to decide over their...; Tags: Communication skills, Real estate, conflict resolution, agent, theory; White papers 2006-09-01
Top 10 Conflict Resolution and Communication Skills: Conventional wisdom (and research) says that good communication can improve relationships, increasing intimacy, trust and support. The converse is also true: poor communication can weaken bonds, creating mistrust and even contempt! This paper provides some examples of negative and even destructive attitudes and communication patterns that can exacerbate conflict in...; Tags: Leadership, communication skill, bond; White papers 2006-09-01
Creating Conflict Resolution In The Emergency Department: Conflict. Few single words more aptly describe the average emergency department. Merriam-Webster defines conflict as "...Struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or opposing external or internal demands". Those that work in an Emergency Department (ED) realize that every shift is filled with the intermeshed issues of id...; Tags: Communication skills, University of Florida, conflict resolution, ethics; White papers 2006-08-04
Adaptive Management Planning Projects As Conflict Resolution Processes: Adaptive management planning projects use multiparty, multidisciplinary workshops and simulation modeling to facilitate dialogue, negotiation, and planning. However, they have been criticized as a poor medium for conflict resolution. Alternative processes from the conflict resolution tradition, e.g., principled negotiation and sequenced negotiation, address uncertainty and biophysical constraints much less skillfully...; Tags: Communication skills, Macquarie University, conflict resolution, negotiation; White papers 2006-06-27
Hybrid Agreement as a Conflict Resolution Strategy: Situations in which conflicting constraints clash can potentially provide linguists with insights into the architecture of grammar. This paper deals with such a case. When predicative modifiers of morphologically rich languages head relative clauses, they are involved in two agreement relationships. As modifiers, they are subject to agreement constraints between...; Tags: agreement, conflict resolution; White papers 2006-06-20
Conflict Resolution Skills Can Be Learned: People are anxious when they recall past quarrels and disagreements that resulted in personal injury, either physical or emotional. People remember feeling frightened, defeated and powerless. To avoid repeating the experience, one can become passive, agreeable or accepting. One may withdraw from the situation, believing the problem will be solved...; Tags: Communication skills, EzineArticles.com, conflict resolution; White papers 2006-06-01
Conflict Resolution And A Framework For Collaborative Interactive Evolution: Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) has proven useful in a variety of applications by combining the subjective evaluation of a user with the massive parallel search power of the Genetic Algorithm (GA). Here, we articulate a framework for an extension of IEC into collaborative interactive evolution, in which multiple users guide...; Tags: Communication skills, conflict resolution, tool; White papers 2006-04-30
A Preventive Conversion Mechanism For Conflict Resolution: In this paper we present an algorithm, called the Wavelength before Time with Preventive Conversion (WTPC) algorithm that aims at reducing the loss rate in an optical burst switched network. The algorithm resolves contention in both the time and wavelength domain and uses a preventive conversion mechanism for some optical...; Tags: Engineering, algorithm, conflict resolution; White papers 2006-05-05
Secrets to Successful Conflict Resolution: Going to court is becoming increasingly costly and often futile. Parties and individuals in conflict are therefore turning to alternative methods of dispute resolution - mediation and arbitration being two options. One must negotiate their way from confrontation to cooperation. In this paper the author explains some secrets to successful...; Tags: Communication skills, EzineArticles.com, conflict resolution, arbitration; White papers 2006-04-22