Chapter 6 Flashcards
- DISAGREEMENT OF IDEAS/ BELIEFS
conflict
- Psychological and behavioral reaction to a perception that another person is either keeping you from reaching a goal, taking away your right to behave in a particular way, or violating experiences of a relationship.
conflict
- Behavior by a person/group intended to inhibit the attainment of goals by another person/group (Riggio).
conflict
t or f
CONFLICTING PARTIES HAVE COMPATIBLE GOALS.
F - INCOMPATIBLE
T OR F
Conflict will always result to negative outcomes.
F
TYPES OF conflict
- Interpersonal Conflict
examples: Friends, family members, classmates, etc. - Individual-group Conflict
- Group-group Conflict
Type of Conflict
examples: Friends, family members, classmates, etc.
- Interpersonal Conflict
Levels of conflict within organization
- Intraindividual Conflict
- Interindividual Conflict
- Intragroup Conflict
- Intergroup Conflict
- incompatible goals associated with roles.
- example: The university wants its teaching employees to publish instead of focusing in teaching.
- Intraindividual Conflict
- conflict between two individuals.
- examples: between employees, or between employee and customer.
- Interindividual Conflict
- conflict between one person or fraction within a group and other group members.
- Intragroup Conflict
- conflict between departments/ units.
- example: conflict because of scarce resources such as budget and privileges.
- Intergroup Conflict
What are the causes/sources of conflicts?
- Competition for Resources
- Task Interdependence
- Jurisdictional Ambiguity
- Communication Barriers
- Beliefs
- Personality
- Scare resources: money (budget), space, personnel equipment
- Competition for Resources
- when the performance of some group members depends on the performance of other group members.
- Task Interdependence
- when 2 groups which rely on each other have conflicting goals.
- Task Interdependence
- The lines of authority are unclear.
- Jurisdictional Ambiguity
- Supervisors could feel incompetent when another supervisors deal with his/her work.
- Jurisdictional Ambiguity
- Physical, Cultural, and Psychological
- Communication Barriers
- conflicts in belief systems of individuals or group
- Beliefs
- incompatible personalities who must work together.
- Personality
WHO & YEAR
Characteristics of difficult people
BRAMSON 1981
Characteristics of difficult people
- High Needs for Perfection
Whiner - Constantly complains about the situation but never tries to change it.
No person - Believes nothing will ever work thus disagrees with every suggestion.
Nothing person - Responds to difficult situation by doing and saying nothing.
- High Need for Control
* obsessed with completing a task and take great pride in getting a job done quickly.
Tank - Get things done quickly by giving orders, being bushy, yelling, being aggressive.
Sniper - Controls people by using sarcasm, embarrassment, humiliations.
Know-it-all - Controls others by dominating conversations, not listening to the ideas of others.
- High need for Approval
* obsessed with being liked.
Yes person - agrees to do everything.
Maybe person - Avoids conflict by never making a stand on any issues; delays making decisions, seldom offers opinions, and seldom commits to any course of action.
- High Needs for Attention
* obsessed with being appreciated; behave in a manner that will get them noticed.
Grenade - throws a tantrum, yells, swears, rants.
Friendly Sniper - Gets attention by poking fun at others.
Think-they-know-it-all - Exaggerates lies, gives unwanted advice to gain attention.
UNDER WHAT CATERGORY OF DIFF PEOPLE AND WHAT IS IT
Constantly complains about the situation but never tries to change it.
- High Needs for Perfection
Whiner
UNDER WHAT CATERGORY OF DIFF PEOPLE AND WHAT IS IT
Believes nothing will ever work thus disagrees with every suggestion.
- High Needs for Perfection
No person
UNDER WHAT CATERGORY OF DIFF PEOPLE AND WHAT IS IT
Responds to difficult situation by doing and saying nothing.
- High Needs for Perfection
Nothing person
- obsessed with completing a task and take great pride in getting a job done quickly.
- High Need for Control
UNDER WHAT CATERGORY OF DIFF PEOPLE AND WHAT IS IT
Get things done quickly by giving orders, being bushy, yelling, being aggressive.
- High Need for Control
- Tank
UNDER WHAT CATERGORY OF DIFF PEOPLE AND WHAT IS IT
Controls people by using sarcasm, embarrassment, humiliations.
- High Need for Control
- Sniper
UNDER WHAT CATERGORY OF DIFF PEOPLE AND WHAT IS IT
Controls others by dominating conversations, not listening to the ideas of others.
- High Need for Control
- Know-it-all