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CONFLICT PROCESS &
CONFLICT HANDLING
WHAT IS CONFLICT?
Conflict is a disagreement through
which the parties involved perceive a
threat to their needs, interests or
concerns.
Substantive Conflict
Emotional Conflict
IMPORTANT FACTORS IN
CONFLICT
Disagreement
Parties involved
Perceived Threat
Needs, interests, concern
CONFLICT MUST BE PERCEIVED TO EXIST!
Objective Condition
Perceived
Conflict
Conflict
No Conflict
Conflict
Open Conflict
False Conflict
No Conflict
Latent Conflict
No Conflict
PERCEPTUAL FILTERS
Culture, race & ethnicity
Gender&Sexuality
Knowledge (General &
Situational)
Impression of the messenger
Previous experiences
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF
CONFLICT
Traditional View
Human Relations View
Interactionist View
Functional Conflict
Dysfunctional Conflict
DYSFUNCTIONAL CONFLICT
Task Conflict; relates to the content and
goals of the work
Relationship Conflict; focuses on interpersonal
relationship.
Process Conflict ; relates to how the
work gets done.
CONFLICT&UNIT PERFORMANCE
FORMS OF CONFLICT
INTERNAL: The conflict a
person has with themselves.
PERSONAL: This is between
the person and his closest
people. .
SOCIAL: Social Conflict is
between the doctor and his
patient.
Sources of Conflict
• Economic conflict involves competing
motives to attain scarce resources.
• Value conflict involves incompatibility in
ways of life, ideologies – the preferences.
• Power conflict occurs when each party
wishes to maintain or maximize the amount
of influence.
FORMS OF CONFLICT IN THE
ORGANİZATION
Individual Conflict
Interpersonal Conflict
Intergroup Organisational Conflicts
Sources of Interpersonal
Conflict
Personality
Clashes
• Not everyone feels, thinks or acts alike.
Threats to
status:
• Status or the social rank of a person in
a group, is very important to many
individuals.
Lack of trust:
• Every continuing relationship requires
some degree of trust—the capacity to
depend on each other’s word and
actions.
Sources of Intergroup
Conflict
Interdependencies
and shared
resources
Departments who are in competition
for these scarce resources may
come into conflict
Ambiguity
Conflict can also arise where there is
ambiguity regarding
Intergroup
differences
Within an organisation there are set
resources that departments must
compete for to initiate
more
Levels of Conflict
LEVEL1:
LEVEL2:
LEVEL3:
LEVEL4:
LEVEL5:
Problem to Solve
Disagreement
Contest
Fight / Flight
Intractable
The Conflict Process
The Conflict Process
• Stage 1
– Potential Opposition
• Factors are present that can lead to conflict
– Communication
– Structure
– Personal variables
The Conflict Process
• Stage 2
– Cognition and Personalization
• Awareness of conditions in stage 1
• The conditions cause some sort of
frustration
STAGE III: INTENTIONS
Assertive
Competing
Collaborating
Compromising
Avoiding
Accommodating
Unassertive
Uncooperative
Cooperative
STAGE IV: BEHAVIOR
Verbal,written, even physical
attacks
STAGE V: OUTCOMES
The Effects on Relationships
Within groups
Increased group cohesiveness
Emphasis on loyalty
Rise in autocratic leadership
Focus on activity
STAGE V: OUTCOMES
Between groups
“we-they” attitudes
Distorted perceptions
Decreased communication
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Stimulation
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Resolving Conflict
Develop superordinate goals
Expanding the supply of critical
resources
Clarify existing relationships
Modify existing relationships
Decoupling Mechanisms
Slack resources
Self-contained task
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Resolving Conflict
Power
Challenger disaster
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Conflict Stimulation
Bringing outside individuals into the
group
Altering the organization’s structure
Stimulating competiton
Programmed conflict
Devil’s advocacy
Prepared by:
Tuğba Demirtaş
Levent Doğancı
Duygu Özdemir
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