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Conflict Flashcards

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What are conflicts?

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  • Disagreements or friction, disruption of routines in the group
  • Hard to avoid
  • Normal and not always dramatic
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What are the roots for conflicts?

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  • There are alot of reasons for conflicts
  • Humans are selfish
  • We treat others if we like them
  • Gender stereotypes
  • High stakes places (competition vs cooperation)
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Cooperation

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  • The success of one member is the succession for the group, or increase it
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Competitive

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  • Success depends on performing better than others
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Competition vs Cooperation

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  • Competition can be positive, athletes
  • Cooperation + Teamwork leads to competition
    Rivalry, Outperform, Greediness, Fear
  • Trigger different motivational systems
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What are mixed motive situations?

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  • Situations that involve both cooperation and competetivenes
  • The Prisoners Dilemma
  • Norms of reciprocity, negative stronger than positive, especially when deliberate
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Behavioural assimilation

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The eventual matching of the behaviours displayed by cooperating or competing in groups

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What is the social value orientation?

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The dispositional tendency to respond to conflict settings in a prosocial or proself way
- 4 distinct orientations
Individualists
- Proself
- Dont interfere nor help others
- Harsh style but can adapt
Cooperators
- Prosocial and proself
- Win-win situation
- Cooperate if others do
Competitiors
- Harsh style
- Win-Loose situations
- Unconcerned with criticism or maintaining relations
- Harsh style
Altruists
- Prosocial
- Help those in need

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Social dilemma

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Choosing between maximizing my outcome or others

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The tragedies of the commons

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  • I use too much of my resources, collapsing the society
  • Second chance increase cooperation
  • Normative standards in the group
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Public goods dilemma

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Members are expected to contribute but doesnt, cant get excluded though
- Free loaders
- Too high standard can cause conflicts too

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Fairness dilemmas

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  • How far a decision is based on my perception
  • Common distributive norms
    Equity - the more you do the more you get
    Power - the one in power gets more
    Equality - everyone gets equal
    Need - those in need gets more
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Responsibility Norms

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  • Who to blame or credit once the work is done
  • More aware of our contributions
  • Self-serving attributes results in conflict and loss of cohesion
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Egocentrism

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Giving yourself more credit than is warranted, a bias

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Conflict over power

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  • Power struggles in groups
  • Business and corporate settings
  • Manipulation and disagreements
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Task conflict

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  • Relevant to goals and procedures (ideas or opinions)
  • Happens often
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Process Conflicts

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  • The methods used to complete the tasks
  • How roles got allocated
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Relationship conflict

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  • Interpersonal discord that occurs when group members dislike one another
  • Intragroup vs intergroup conflicts
  • 40 % of the conflicts
  • We dont like to be critiqued
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Uncertainty to Commitment

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  • Gets more committed to your opinion as the conflict escalates
  • Belief perseverance
  • Conformation bias
  • Reactance
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Perception to Misperception

Misperception to Understanding

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  • Individuals perception of the situation and the people in it
  • Attitudes, views, actions, opinions etc
  • Fundamental attributions error
  • Loss of trust in each other
  • Assumptions instead of asking
  • Leads to competition
  • Takes critic personally

Actively communicating ones goals and opinions through discussions

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Soft tactics to Hard tactics

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  • Tactics are the ways people influence each other to go for their opinions
  • Softer tactics in the beginning, shifts to harsher one as it escalates
  • Hard tactics trigger reactance, resilience and negative emotions
  • People got different capacities to use harder tactics
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Reciprocity to Retaliation

Retaliation to Forgiveness

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  • Sustained by norms of reciprocity
  • Rough reciprocity; overmatching and undermatching
  • Justified for oneself
  • Tit for tat, reciprocal process
  • Begins with cooperation
  • Forgiveness, revenge is risky
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Irritation to Anger

Anger to Composure

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  • Emotions take over as conflicts escalates
  • Negative emotions ignites conflicts
  • Anger have some benefits but usually not the case
  • Encourage to regain control
  • Norms in the group
  • Apologies
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Few to Many

Many to Few

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  • Persuade others to join my side
  • The get the most power
  • A coalition, us vs them
  • Use of mediator
  • Increase communication
  • Lets both sides express their sides
  • Clarify ambiguities
  • Offer guidance
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Conflict resolution

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  • Conflicts subside with time
    Subgroups, solutions or leaving the group
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Commitment to Negotioation

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  • Important for conflict de-escalation and resolution
  • A reciprocal communication process to reach an agreement
  • Takes time
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Distributive negotiations

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A process involving mutual compromise
- Small steps towards an agreement
- Haggling and bartering
- Maximizing your outcome

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Integrative negotiations

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A process involving a collaborative resolution method
- Benefit both parties

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Different negotiation styles

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Soft Bargainers
- Gentle style
- Avoid conflicts
- Makes offer
Hard Bargainers
- Hard styles
- Extreme positions and demands
- Hostile
Principle Negotiators
- Integrative solutions
- Focus on the problem than personal needs and motives
- Positional bargaining is dangerous - locks themselves, gets more committed to the position

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Dual Concern Model

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  • Two fundamental themes on how one deal with conflict
  • Tactics
  • Prosocial or proself
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5 core conflict resolution modes

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  • How you deal with conflicts
  • We use one or mix these approaches during conflict
  • Personal conflicts may get worse with cooperative style
  • Focus on the task instead of conflict
    Avoidance - Negative
  • Ignores the fight, built up a tolerance against conflicts
  • Change the topic
  • Wait and see
    Fighting - negative
  • Forcing your way
  • Win-loose situation
    Yielding - positive
  • Passive prosocial approach
  • Give in for the sake of the group
  • They could be wrong
    Cooperation - positive
  • Active prosocial and proself approach
  • Identify underlying issues and work together
  • Win-win situation
  • Task-oriented conflicts
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Is conflict good or evil?

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  • Its a natural process
  • Conflicts are not inherently bad, it can be used to spark up discussions
  • Poor management of making decisions strategies gives conflicts
  • Increase unity, understanding of your role
  • Work proactively decreases conflicts
  • Are no conflicts that much better?
  • Performance increased if managed successfully

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