Register to read the introduction…
Collaborating as a management strategy can be defined as cooperating with the other party to understand their concerns and expressing your own concerns in an effort to find a mutually and completely satisfactory solution (win/win). This method of resolving conflict allows you to merge insights and experience to find an integrative solution. In collaborating the concerns of both parties are being pursued. One must remember that teamwork and cooperation help everyone achieve their goals while also maintaining relationships. The process of working through differences will lead to creative solutions that will satisfy both parties' concerns. There are certain times and situations when this strategy is most appropriate. When both parties' concern are very important to the individual, collaborating will generate the best solution. When using collaboration as a management strategy it must be kept in mind that the people have to be able to change their thinking as more information is found and new options are suggested. Also, when someone doesn't have full responsibility to make a particular decision, collaborating is the only way of reaching a solution to a particular conflict. There are also times, however, when collaborating, as a conflict strategy is not the best choice. The process of collaborating takes a lot of time and energy. This time must be available to both parties; otherwise there will be no
