Responsive Response To Conflict: Avoidance, Accommodation

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Of the five responses to conflict which include, Avoidance, Accommodation, Aggression, Compromise, and Collaboration my default response is aggression. I do not attempt to avoid conflict, but rather face the conflict to work towards a solution. After the reading assignment I thought about how I have used the aggression response to conflict in the past, and that response was more focused on results rather than for people. Sometimes the aggression response was successful at both, a positive result and beneficial for the person. The latest example was when a patrol officer accused another officer of not taking a burglary report near the end of shift. The accusing officer voiced his complaint in a chief advisory council meeting. The chief of police

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