Conflicts at the office, whether they're interpersonal or purely business, are an unavoidable fact of work life. But a disagreement doesn't have to end with two peeved people. According to Sinaia Nathanson, Ph.D., a senior lecturer at Tufts University, employing smart psychology can help you handle conflict wisely and...
Project managers deal with conflict. If you are a project manager, and you have not yet experienced conflict in your project, don't be overly concerned - you will soon enough. At some point in your career, you will be called upon to resolve some type of conflict. At times this...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The three coups in Fiji are symptomatic of the unresolved conflicts within its society, especially between the two major ethnic groups (indigenous Fijians, and those of Indian descent). This is the product of a cadre of leadership that, over the years, seemed to lose the plot in preparing their communities...
A person will find himself at odds with one of his colleagues at work and he will want to make the best of a difficult situation. What should the person do? The author asks the person to look deep within himself and ask the following question: "What is the worst...
While there are some couples that just naturally see things the same way, most people have a really hard time seeing things through the other person's eyes. What often happens when they "Communicate" is that each person tries to get the other person to see things his or her way....
Conflict is part of life. It is only when each individual as family members don't have the skills to move through conflict that it becomes a problem. The author's book, When You're About To Go Off The Deep End, Don't Take Your Kids With You contains dozens of easy-to-use tips...
If a person's child is in daycare, it's likely that the person will eventually disagree with something the childcare provider does or says. Recognizing when to say something, and how to approach the subject with the provider, will help maintain a positive relationship between the person and the childcare provider...
The key to proper resolution of inevitable conflicts is having a set of rules and practices to tip the momentum of conflicts toward a mutually beneficial resolution. The place to start when implementing meaningful conflict resolution is with the individual. Each individual is always first responsible for the way they...
It goes by many names - conflict prevention, conflict resolution, conflict management, the names go on. These terms were all created to combat a similar problem. For the most part, people who deal with these issues all agree with the same principle: Conflict resolution at an early stage is less...
Conflict abounds in human relations. It can be intense, and it is usually unpleasant. In a time of conflict people often do not know how to help themselves or, if they know, are so caught up in it that they find themselves to be ineffective. What can a person do...
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