Chapter 21 Flashcards
Exam 4 (Final)
What is Conflict?
A disagreement or struggle resulting from opposing needs, values, or interests.
Conflict:
How can it occur?
It can occur internally or externally
Conflict:
What does it result from?
Discord that result from differences in ideas, feeling or values
Conflict:
Who does it occur betwee?
Between two individuals or amount many others
Conflict:
When is it also created?
Conflict is also created when there are differences in economic and professional values and when there is competition among professionals.
Types of conflict
Include:
Interpersonal conflict
Intrapersonal conflict
Organizational conflict
Types of conflict
Interpersonal Conflict
Between individuals (e.g., nurse-to-nurse).
Types of conflict
Intrapersonal Conflict
Within oneself (e.g., ethical dilemmas).
Types of conflict
Organizational Conflict:
Between groups or departments (e.g., nursing vs. administration
Is conflict good or bad ?
Relationship Between Organizational Conflict and Effectiveness:
*Some level of conflict in an organization appears desirable, although the optimum level for a specific person or unit at a given time is difficult to determine.
BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGE OF CONFLICT
Benefits:
Encourages Growth
Promotes Innovation
Clarifies Issues
Strengthens Relationships
Increases Engagement
BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGE OF CONFLICT
DISADVANTAGE:
Disruption
Emotional Strain
Polarization
Ineffective communication
Focus of the negative
BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGE OF CONFLICT
Relationship Between Organizational Conflict and Effectiveness:
Currently, how is conflict viewed?
*Currently, conflict is viewed as neither good nor bad because it can produce growth or be destructive, depending on how it is managed.
BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGE OF CONFLICT
Relationship Between Organizational Conflict and Effectiveness:
How to determine the optimal level of conflict for a specific person or unit?
The optimal level for a specific person or unit at a given time is difficult to determine.
Common sources OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT
SCARCE RESOURCES
RESTRUCTURING
POORLY DEFINED ROLE EXPECTATIONS
INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR
COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
Leadership role in conflict resolution
What is the leader’s level of awareness?
Is self-aware and conscientiously works to resolve intrapersonal conflict
Leadership role in conflict resolution
When does a leader address conflict?
Addresses conflict as soon as it is perceived and before it becomes felt or manifest
Leadership role in conflict resolution
When does a leader intervenes?
Immediately confronts and intervenes when incivility, bullying, and mobbing occur
Leadership role in conflict resolution
What does a leader seek?
Seeks a win–win solution to conflict whenever feasible
Leadership role in conflict resolution
What do they lessen?
Lessens the perceptual differences that exist between conflicting parties and broadens the parties’ understanding about the problems
Leadership role in conflict resolution
What do leaders assist with?
Assists subordinates in identifying alternative conflict resolutions
Leadership role in conflict resolution
What do leaders recognize?
Recognizes and accepts individual differences in team members
Leadership role in conflict resolution
What do leaders use? Why?
Uses assertive communication skills to increase persuasiveness and foster open communication
Leadership role in conflict resolution
What do leaders role model?
Role models honest and collaborative negotiation efforts
Leadership role in conflict resolution
What do leaders encourage?
Encourages consensus building when group support is needed to resolve conflicts
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What kind of environment does management create?
Creates a work environment that minimizes the antecedent conditions for conflict
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What does management do when an unpopular decision needs to be made?
Uses appropriately legitimate authority in a competing approach when a quick or unpopular decision needs to be made
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What does management facilitate?`
Facilitates conflict resolution among team members when appropriate
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What does management accept responsibility for?
Accepts mutual responsibility for reaching predetermined supraordinate goals
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What kind of workplace culture does management establish?
Establishes a workplace culture that has zero tolerance for incivility, bullying, mobbing, and workplace violence
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What does management obtain?
Obtains needed unit resources through effective negotiation strategies
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
When does management compromise unit needs?
Compromises unit needs only when the need is not critical to unit functioning and when higher management gives up something of equal value
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What should management be adequately prepared to do?
Is adequately prepared to negotiate for unit resources, including the advance determination of a bottom line and possible trade-offs
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What does management address?
Addresses the need for closure and follow-up to negotiation
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
When conflicts can’t be resolved, what is done?
Pursues alternative dispute resolution when conflicts cannot be resolved using traditional conflict management strategies
MANAGEMENT Functions IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
What can management no longer afford to do?
Managers can no longer afford to respond to conflict traditionally (i.e., to avoid or suppress conflict) because this is nonproductive.
STAGES OF CONFLICT
LATENT CONFLICT
PERCEIVED CONFLICT
FELT CONFLICT
MANIFEST CONFLICT
CONFLICT AFTERMATH
STAGES OF CONFLICT
Latent Conflict:
conditions are ripe for conflict, although no conflict has actually yet occurred
STAGES OF CONFLICT
Felt (Affective) Conflict:
occurs when the conflict becomes emotionalized.
Felt emotions include hostility, fear, mistrust, and anger.
STAGES OF CONFLICT
Perceived Conflict:
The person recognizes it logically and impersonally as occurring but does not feel emotionally involved in it.
STAGES OF CONFLICT
Manifest conflict (overt conflict):
action is taken. The action may be to withdraw, compete, debate, or seek conflict resolution.
STAGES OF CONFLICT
Conflict aftermath-
Conflict aftermath- the aftermath of a conflict may be more significant than the original conflict if the conflict has not been handled constructively
STAGES OF CONFLICT
What is the first stage? What does it imply? How are conditions in this stage?
**The first stage in the conflict process, latent conflict, implies the existence of antecedent conditions such as inequities in staffing.
In this stage, conditions are ripe for conflict, although no conflict has actually yet occurred.
Response to conflict:
How does an individual typically react to conflict?
Learned responses to manifest conflict are the ways individuals typically react when a conflict becomes openly expressed.
Response to conflict:
Learned responses to manifest conflict are the ways individuals typically react when a conflict becomes openly expressed.
What can these responses be influenced by?
These responses can be influenced by past experiences, cultural background, personality, and the context of the conflict
Common conflict resolution strategies
Compromising
Competing
Accommodating/Cooperating
Avoiding
Smoothing
Collaborating
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
include
Win–Win—optimal goal in conflict resolution
Win–Lose
Lose–Lose
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
Compromising:
Both parties agree to give up something to reach a resolution.
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
Compromising: What is the impact?
Impact: Can be effective in reaching a quick resolution but may not fully satisfy either party’s needs.
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
What =s Compromising?
Give + Take =compromise
Each party gives up something it wants
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
Competing:
An assertive approach where one party seeks to win the conflict at the expense of others.
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
Competing: What is the impact?
Can lead to a quick resolution but may damage relationships and foster a hostile environment.
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
Competing: Can lead to a quick resolution but may damage relationships and foster a hostile environment. Why?
One party pursues what they want regardless of the cost to others
You are a nurse on a medical-surgical unit. Two members of your healthcare team are in conflict over the best approach to manage a patient’s pain. One nurse believes in utilizing pharmacological interventions, while the other prefers a holistic approach, including relaxation techniques. The disagreement is affecting teamwork and patient care.
As the charge nurse, how would you approach resolving this conflict?
A. Ignore the conflict and let the nurses handle it themselves.
B. Arrange a meeting with both nurses to discuss their viewpoints and facilitate a compromise that integrates both approaches.
C. Decide on one approach and instruct both nurses to follow it.
D. Consult with the nursing supervisor and ask them to intervene
B. Arrange a meeting with both nurses to discuss their viewpoints and facilitate a compromise that integrates both approaches.
Rationale:
Facilitating open communication and discussion encourages teamwork and may lead to a collaborative solution that considers both perspectives, ultimately benefiting patient care. Ignoring the conflict or imposing a decision can lead to resentment and further discord, while simply seeking external intervention may not address the root of the issue.
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
Accommodating/cooperating
Description: One party prioritizes the other’s needs over their own, often to maintain harmony.
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
Accommodating/cooperating: What is the impact?
Impact: May resolve the conflict temporarily but can lead to resentment if one party consistently sacrifices their own needs.
Conflict Resolution Outcomes:
Accommodating/cooperating: Impact: May resolve the conflict temporarily but can lead to resentment if one party consistently sacrifices their own needs.
What does this result in?
One party sacrifices their belief and wants to allow other party to win