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MGT Test 1
Midterm
Question | Answer |
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Conflict resoultion is? | The act of resolving a, controversy, disagrement, fight, war, misunderstanding, love spat, etc. |
Conflict is the result of? | Differing needs, perceptions, assumptions, and/or values. |
Name the five types of forms of conflict resoulution? | Conquest approach, Avoidance approach, Bargining approach, Bandaide approach, Role Player approach. |
Conquest Approach | A battle to win, Gain advantage, Attain dominance in the relationship. |
The Avoidance Approach | Lack the confidence to deal with conflict, believe and hope that conflicts will go away, Assumes that time heal all wounds. |
The Bargining Approach | Demands and intrests are traded, Needs, values, and personal feelings are compromised away,Spin-off conflicts can often occur. |
The Bandaide Approach | Moving employees into diffrent shifts, Relocating desk or reassinging to diffrent groups, Failure to adress the underlying problem. |
The Role player Approach | People act only from their roles, "because I said so",Continued inequality can lead to future damaging conflict. |
The Ingredients of Conflict are | Diversity and Differences |
Needs | These are essential to our well being |
Perceptions | Diffrences of interpretation of reality |
Power | Use of preceived or real influence |
Value | Individual beliefs or pricples that are impotant to us |
Feelings and emotions | These can influence and individual's reaction to conflict |
Internal Conflicts | Unsure of one's values, feelings, and wants |
Dr. weeks survey of words most associated with conflict | Fight; Pain; War; Hate; Avoid; Loss; Fear; Bad; Anger; Fear; Wrongdoing; Destruction; etc.. |
Benefits of successful conflict resoulution | Better working relationships, Improved productivity |
What four elemants must be meet in order to be a workplace conflict | Jobs Interdependent, Anger among one of the parties, Perception of other being a fault, It causes a business problem |
What is the most easiest conflict to resolve? | An conflict between two people. |
Six part of conflict structure are | Interdependency, Intrested Parties, Constituent Representation, Negotiator Authority, Critical Urgency, Communication Channels. |
Interdependency | How much parties need each other, If high cost of resolving is high |
Number of Intrested Parties | As number increses, more diffucult to resolve |
Constituent representation | Do parties represent others? |
Negotiator Authority | Does representative have authority to make concessions on behalf of others. |
Communication Channels | Same time same place dialogue produces far better. |
Name some of the costs of conflicts? | Wasted time, Bad decisions, Loss of good employess, Lost work time, Health Costs |
Hints to avoid conflicts | Discipline not apllied until parties are given a chance, Be senetive to relationship amoung employees, Encourage employees to talk. |
The three ways to resolve conflict | Power Contest, Right Contest, Interest recognciliation. |
Power Contest | Diputants physical strength, threats, loud voice to coerce opponents |
Right Contest | Diputants appeal to a source of authority to determine that their right are more legitimate ex Parents, Boss, Court of Law |
Interest recognciliation | Disputants work in a collaborative manner to come up with a solution, trust, generosity |
Natural Tendencies | Fight or Flight |
Essential Process of Mediaion | Directly between disputents, No wal-away, No Power play, Discussion of the issue to be resolved, Sustain dialuge long enough to find soulution |
To resoleve conflict... | there mmust be dialogue; dialogue meus be iven time; and dialogue must be facilitated by someone. |
Managerial Mediation Steps | Identify the Conflict, decide to Mediate, hold Preliminary meetings, plan the context, hold a thee-way meeting,folloe up. |
Wrong reasons to mediate | To establish innocence or guilt, to punish, to decide right or wrong |
Definition of Negotiation | Negotiation is the means by which people deal with their diffrences |
The five elements common to negotiation situations. | Two or more parties; interdependece; common goals; flexibility; decision-making ability. |
Five Bargaining Styles | Avoiding, Accommodative, Collaborative, Competing, Compromising |
Without Interdepedecy... | Their is no reson to negotiate, no motivation to reach an aggreement. |
Common goals of negotiations | Context, Realtionship |
Context | the substance or specfics in the agreement |
Relationship | how the parties want to be viewed by each other |
BATNA | Best Alternative to Negotiation agreement |
Four Stages of Negotiation | Preperation, Opening Session, Bargaining, Settlement. |
RV=Walk away Price | True |
Batna=Walk away Price | False |
What is posturing | Blow off stem, show degust |
Why is saving face important | Avoid emmbarrisment, Payback |
Ditributive Bargaining Definition common terms | Win-lose, fixed Pie |
What are the three components of distributive bargaining | Parties view each oter as adversary, Objective to maximize personal self interest, expectation of no future relationship |
ZOPA | Zones of possible agreement |
Opening or Intial offers (anchoring) | Force you to get closer to that price |
What happens at settlement | two sides agree upon a deal |
Intergrative Bargaining definition | A negotiating process in which parties strive to intergrate their intrest as effectively as possible |
The difrence between ditributive bargaining and intergative bargaining. | Distributive try to maximize self intrest win-lose, while intergrative bargining intergrate both parties intrest win-win |
Thompson's Pyramid Model Level 1 | Agreement- Exceeds both parties reservation points |
Thompson's Pyramid Model Level 2 | Superior Agreement- Create additional value for both parties |
Thompson's Pyramid Model Level 3 | Parteo Optimal-Maximum value for both parties |
Successful Intergrative Bargaining requires | Willing paticipation; Relationship; Collaborative Atmosphere; Packaging. |
The Categoriztion Model of Intergrative Bargaining | Identify all issues, classify each issue compatible, exchange, distributive; agree on all compatible issues; trade or exchange issues; use distributive bargaining. |
What is Power in a negotiation | the ability to induce the other party to settle for less |
What is Leverage in a negottiation | The power to achieve goals. |
BATNA is the most... | essential bargaining power; should keep concealed |
Creating Persuasive Arguments three keys | Passion, Logic, Character |
Passion | focus on emotions appealing to fairness |
Logic | Focus on information presenting mathematical estimates |
Character | Focus on the person citing thier reputation for honesty |
Comunication... | verbal and nonverbal |
Definition of Ethics | is the study of morality |
Ethical beliefs... | Is bases for ones values |
Values reflect beliefs... | About ends and means of achieving goals |
Behavorial rules... | are the accepted customs, standards, or models for ethical actions. |
Three priciple theories of ethics | Ethics of purpose; ethics of priciple; ethics of consequence |
Appropriate tatics of negotiation | High opening demand |
Inappropriate tactis during negotiations | lying, bribery, threaten |
Trust is.... | essential to negotiations |
Negotiations... | enable cooperative behavior |
Five bases of trust | Deterrence-based trust; self-intrest trust; Relational trust; Identity-based trust; Institutional-based trust |
Deterrance-based truset | imposed penalties, contruction contract |
Self Intrest trust | mutually advnatageous |
Relational trust | reliability in past performance |
Identity based trust | similar to relational trust but itensity creates an us culture |
Institutional-based trust- | imposed by the situation |