Appendix 1 My SWOT After this course, I am able to address my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of resolving a conflict in a different situations. Now, to analyze all of those different elements, I would first address my judgement styles. My judgment style My judgment style is the Directing Style. I like to find the positive outcome to any conflicts. The concept of Directing Style is: ‘I win and you lose’. The strategies of Directing Styles are: “Assert, control, compete, persuade…
Workplace conflicts are usually disputes that take place in the workplace and sometimes escalate outside of the workplace. This type of conflict can be caused due to many different types of reasons such as lack of communication, difference in personalities, bullying, harassment, difference in opinions, unfair treatment, unclear job roles, poor work environment, lack of equal opportunities, unresolved problems from the past, and an increase in workload just to name a few. According to Baack…
After reading module three, I determined that understanding conflict negotiation styles was the most valuable to me. It was brought to my attention that my negotiation style is more of an accommodator than anything else. I totally agree with this accusation. I understand that being an accommodator can lead to me losing my own goals in the process. I was also identified as a compromiser and collaborator which could be strengths. None of these styles are bad until I tend to fall back on…
major sources of conflict in society is the discrimination of lower status groups by the dominant groups. Differences are clearly observed between the rich and the poor, he physically attractive and the undesirable, and the dominant and the submissive. Inequality is especially prominent amount races and ethnicities (Byrne & Wong, 1962; Katz & Braly, 1935), gender (Gittell, 2011; Hoeber, 2007), and social class (Blader & Chen, 2012; Heaven, Greene, Stones, & Caputi, 2000). Conflicts arise when…
Conflict theory alludes to a gathering of social speculations, a large portion of which have roots in progress of Karl Marx. Struggle hypothesis places a model of society whereby distinctive gatherings seek after their hobbies freely or against the hobbies of different gatherings. These gatherings go after assets and power, and after some time, a few gatherings come to command others. The social request built up by these overwhelming gatherings then comes to quell minority bunches. One way…
Analysis of My Personal Conflict Style The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, which is an assessment used globally in conflict handling, specifies five strategies used to address conflict (Evans, 2013). They are as follows: Accommodating, Collaborating, Avoiding, Competing, and Compromising (Evans, 2013). Understanding your conflict style is compared to understanding your morals. To know, is to be prepared for any type of conflict. I will review my personal conflict style, discuss pros…
There are many different types of conflict, you can have man versus man, man versus self, man versus society, and man versus machine. Man versus man can be found in Things Fall Apart. Man versus self can be found in Harry Potter. An example of man versus society is found in Divergent, and man versus machine can be found in IRobot. In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe includes conflicts of man versus man. Okonkwo gets into conflicts with his son Nwoye until he almost kills Nwoye. Okonkwo is…
presented in the textbook that are measured by the ‘Conflict Style Questionnaire’. The five conflict styles are: avoidance, competition, accommodation, compromise, and collaboration (Northouse, p. 244). Avoidance is an “unassertive and uncooperative conflict style” in which the people who engage in this style prefer to ignore conflict situations (Northouse, p. 245 & 246). Basically, the avoidance style consists of disregarding conflict. When conflict is avoided because of this style, nothing is…
The forms of conflict styles that I will be covering in the movie Office Space include accommodating,avoiding and last but not least collaborating. Conflict is something can that arise at any time, but it is up to us to be able to utilize conflict resolution strategies. There any many different ways to respond to conflict. Some conflict styles involve a considerate or cooperative approach while sometimes others involve either a competitive or passive approach. Giving in is described as…
Conflict tends to appear whenever the theme of superiority is introduced. When one person believes to be superior in a relationship, and expects the other person to be submissive, conflicting ideals and tension is brought about. The same is true for those who have a reputation of superiority; no one wants to feel inferior to another person, so if someone develops a reputation of being superior to others, a conflict arises. Zora Neale Hurston addresses this theme of superiority and its causes and…