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Chapter 9: Conflict and Negotiation Flashcards

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Conflict Types (3)

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Task, Relational, Process

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Task Conflict

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related to the content and goals of the work.

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Task Conflict:
1. Conflict among top management teams associated with?
2. Conflict among low-level employees is associated with?

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  1. higher performance
  2. Lower performance
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What is best intensity level for conflict and what is worse

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Moderate best and worse is low or high

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Relationship Conflict:

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focuses on relationships and often takes the form of personality clashes as well as interpersonal disagreements

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Tips to handle relationship conflict (3)

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  • Communicate directly with the other person to resolve perceived conflict
  • Avoid dragging other co-workers into the conflict
  • seek help from direct supervisors or human resource specialists
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If not involved in relationship conflict then (3)

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  • Do not take sides
  • Suggest parties work things out themselves
  • Refer the problem to upper management or supervisors
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Process Conflict and what conflict can it sometimes turn into

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Delegation and role conflicts. Highly personalized and transform into relationship conflict

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Sources of conflict with communication (2)

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  • Semantic difficulties, noise in communication channels
  • too little or too much communication
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Sources of Conflict - Structure:
Groups and level of conflict and tasks
Age and level of turnover

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Larger groups = highly specialized tasks,
younger members = high turnover

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Sources of Conflict - Ambiguity Responsibility and conflict

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Higher ambiguity leads to greater potential for conflict

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Sources of Conflict - Leadership Style

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Manager exert tight control, leave employees w/ little discretion

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Sources of Conflict - Zero-sum reward systems:

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employees need to compete and sometimes unethically

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Sources of Conflict - Diversity of goals

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various goals, and objectives to meet this year, must order

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Personal and conflict variables (3)

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Personality, emotion and value

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Conflict resolution bound - Cooperativeness

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one party attempts to satisfy other party’s concerns

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Conflict resolution bound - Assertiveness

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one party attempts to satisfy their concerns over others

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Avoiding: and resolution bound

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Issue is trivial and symptom, no chance you will win, other in better position to resolve, need more time

low assertive and low cooperativeness

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Yielding and resolution bound

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Other’s needs or group goals more important than yours, build-bank, harmony

low assertive and high cooperativeness

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Compromising and resolution bound

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issue moderate importance, halfway point, equal power, speed is vital

mid assertive and mid cooperativeness

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Forcing and resolution bound

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Issue & speed of high importance, future relationship unimportant, high power

high assertive and low cooperativeness

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Problem Solving and resolution bound

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Issue is high importance, common enemy/concerns, trust is high to allow for exchange sharing, so time pressure, integration/collaboration

high assertive and high cooperativeness

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Conflict Resolution: Structural approach - Expansion of Resources

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Conflict due to limited resources then expansion is win-win solution

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Conflict Resolution: Structural approach - Authoritative Control

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Management use formal authority to resolve conflict

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Conflict Resolution: Structural approach - Altering Human Control

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Conflicts caused by attitudes and behaviours human relations training can be a solution

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Conflict Resolution: Structural approach - conflict and solution

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Conflicts caused by organizational structure, conflicts may be solved by job redesign or transfers

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Third Party Conflict Resolution - Mediator

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neutral third party who facilitates a negotiated solution by using reasoning, persuasion and suggestions for alternatives

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Third Party Conflict Resolution - Arbitrator

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Appointed by parties, have authority to dictate an agreement for the conflict, voluntary or assigned

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Third Party Conflict Resolution - Conciliator

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provide an informal communication link between the parties involved, get parties to talk

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Third Party Conflict Resolution - Consultant

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Skilled and impartial, attempt to facilitate problem-solving through communication and analysis, aided by knowledge of conflict management. Parties improve relationship and focus

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Negotiation

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A process in which two or more parties exchange goods or services and attempt to agree upon the exchange rate for them

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5 Steps to negotiate

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  1. Developing a Strategy
  2. Definition of ground rules
  3. Clarification and justification
  4. Bargaining and problem solving
  5. Closure and implementation – Distributive bargaining
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Negotiation - 1. Developing a Strategy - Issued

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item specifically placed on bargaining table for discussion

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Negotiation - 1. Developing a Strategy - Position

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individual stand on issue

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Negotiation - 1. Developing a Strategy - Interest

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concern or affect by negotiation result

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Negotiation - 1. Developing a Strategy - Aspiration or Bargaining range (2 points)

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Target and Resistance point

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Target Point

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ideal and realistic outcome

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Resistance Point

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when you walk away

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BATNA and what is

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Best alternative to a negotiated agreement - backup or counter offer

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Negotiation - 2. Defining Ground Rules

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Reach agreement with the other party regarding the details about the negotiation

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Negotiation - 3. Clarification and Justifications

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Opportunity for both parties to explain, amplify, clarify, bolster and justify demands

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Negotiation - Persuasion Process

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Convince other party about why your demands are legitimate and important to fulfill

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Negotiation: 4. Bargaining and Problem Solving

relationship between compete and collaborate to compromise and accomodate

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Competing and collaborating strategies in negotiations tend to result in better outcomes than compromising and accommodating strategies

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Negotiation: 5. Closure and Implementation of the deal

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Finalizing negotiation involving laying out specifics in a contract or handshake

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Types of negotiation: Distributive Bargaining and example

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Negotiations that seek to divide up a fixed amount of resources,

etc when two employees need to decide how they split a $10,000 bonus

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Distributive Bargaining: How to succeed (2)

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  1. reasonable first offer -> shows power and triggers anchoring bias (people fixate on information presented to them)
  2. Reveal a deadline -> speed the process, apply pressure
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Types of negotiation: Integrative Bargaining and example

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Negotiation strategy in which parties collaborate to find “win-win” solution to their disputes

example: wanting to maintain long-term relationship with party

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Integrative Bargaining and how to succeed (2-4)

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  • Negotiate in teams achieves more integrative agreements
  • Put more issues on table (ideas generated)
  • Focus on interests of each party
  • Avoid compromise, you want Win-WIN

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