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Frans de Waal’s The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society is a lesson for humans, culled from studies on primate behavior. The fascinating lessons push the boundaries between man and animal. The book is also a plea for the use in human society of the concept of ‘living together.’ Frans de Waal, a multi-awarded primatologist and [...]

There are some conflict resolution strategies that work for individual teams. There is one common strategy that runs through all these, though, and that is dialogue. A cooperative problem-solving style also enables people to work together. This cooperation not only finishes the work but also bolsters camaraderie and team spirit. Some employ the strategy [...]

Conflict resolution, a resultant and logical step to address the inescapable reality of conflict, is a must to move the team forward. Conflict resolution is a dynamic and pro-active endeavor that serves to find a commonality among the diversity in team membership. If there is no resolution to conflicts, the uniqueness of the individual cannot have [...]

Successful victims of conflict fight back even with negative response most of the time. Some responded by being absent often from team activities. The insight is clear. Those who fight back and try to resolve the conflict are members who recognize and confront the conflict issues squarely. In the process, they employ all means possible in terms of [...]

Conflict is a logical result of a situation when an individual or sub-group within a larger group feels adversely affected by another individual or sub-group (Wall & Callister, 1995). In groups and organizations, conflict arises over differences in and competition over power levels, scarce resources, the desire to be different rather than converge, [...]

A successful team is the one that manages conflict through conflict resolution strategies that take into consideration the diversity in the membership composition of the team. According to Gountanis (2008), “successful team members can effectively manage conflict.” The most basic definition of a team is a group that has two or more people who need [...]

Time pressure is an important variable when defining a conflict management situation. There always seems to be the element of time pressure when dealing with conflict resolution, making the strategy of collaboration difficult to implement, no matter how attractive it is. There are other key variables in conflict management aside from the consideration [...]

Conflict is a given reality in any organization. So long as there is an organization of human beings, there will always be conflict. This is because any organization has a diversity of individuals. There are Conflict Management Strategies that can be used when in conflict situations. Some managers use ‘Forcing.’ This seems to augur well with the [...]

In ‘Managing through the kaleidoscope: Diverse perspectives on conflict and decision making in organizations’ in the Journal of Business and Management 2000, Michael A. Gross speaks of the notion that managers and decision-makers face a multitude of complex organizational and managerial challenges. If we look at this special issue as a contribution [...]