Thursday, March 7, 2013

CONFLICT HANDLING STYLE



 
In the early 1920s:
·         Domination
·         Compromise
·         Integration
·         Avoidance
·         Suppression
1964s:
·         Forcing
·         Withdrawing
·         Smoothing
·         Compromising
·         Problem solving

1983 – 2002:
 
·         Integrating (high concern for self and others) style
·         Integrating (high concern for self and others) style
o   describes parties who employ cooperative behaviours intended to pursue mutually favourable solutions
o   focusing on shared points and goals rather than personal interests
o   involves working through the conflict with creativity, flexibility, and open communication
o   information exchange in order to achieve the best (or at least acceptable) solution for all concerned parties
 
·         Obliging (low concern for self and high concern for others) style
o   Characterized by an incomplete evaluation of alternatives and a one-sided process of giving-in which decrease the decision-making quality
o   neglects own concern to satisfy the concern of the other party
o   going along with others, agreeing without critical evaluation
o   giving in to others’ positions
 
·         Dominating (high concern for self and low concern for others) style
o   win-lose orientation or with forcing behaviour to win one’s own position
o   confrontative approach that results in one side conceding to other
o   directive communication about the issue
o   persistent argument for one’s own position
o   an attempt to take control of the interaction
 
·         Avoiding (low concern for self and others) style
o   describes behaviour that serves to minimize addressing the conflict explicitly, either ignoring it or quickly shifting conversation to a different issue
o   associated with withdrawal, buck-passing, or sidestepping situations
 
·         Compromising style
o   the middle of the dimension across concern for self and concern for the other
o   modest interest to pursue a mutually acceptable outcome but without making a concerted effort to reach it
o   both parties may have some gains and some losses by allowing give-and-take whereby both parties give up some important needs or goals because they found that some suboptimal outcome must be accepted
o   use this style when
§  willingness to solve the problem is not sufficiently high or
§  when pressures involving time limitations or high costs present themselves
o   involves such tactics as
§  appealing to fairness
§  suggestion of a trade-off
§  maximizing wins and minimizing losses, and
§  offering a quick, short-term solution
 
Shared from:
Carlos Montes, Dámaso Rodríguez, Gonzalo Serrano, (2012),”Affective choice of conflict management styles”, International Journal of Conflict Management, Vol. 23 Iss: 1 pp. 6 – 18

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