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OB- Chapter 10
Organizational Behavior Exam Review- Chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Task conflict? | Parties focus on the issue, respect people with other points of view, try to understand logic/assumptions of each position |
| What is Relationship conflict? | Focus on personal characteristics as the source of conflict, try to undermine each other's worth/competence, accompanied by strong negative emotions |
| What are three conditions that minimize relationship conflict during task conflict? | EI/Emotional stability, cohesive team, and supportive team norms |
| Describe incompatible goals | One party's goals perceived to interfere with other's goals |
| Describe differentiation | Different values/beliefs, explains cross-cultural, generational, merger conflict |
| Describe interdependence | Conflict increases with interdependence, parties more likely to interfere with each other |
| Describe scarce resources | Motivates competition for the resource |
| Describe ambiguous rules | Creates uncertainty, threatens goals, encourages political behavior |
| Describe communication problems | Stereotyping when few chances to communicate, conflict reduces motivation to communicate, poor communication skills escalate conflict |
| What are the 6 conflict handling contingencies? | Problem solving, forcing, avoiding, yielding, compromising, problem |