Working Paper # 03-115 Rev. 09/04 Conflicts of Interest and the Case of Auditor Independence: Moral Seduction and Strategic Issue Cycling Don A. Moore Carnegie Mellon University Philip E. Tetlock Haas School of Business Lloyd Tanlu Harvard Business School Max H. Bazerman Harvard Business School This paper has benefited from the feedback of Art Brief‚ George Loewenstein‚ and three anonymous reviewers of an earlier version of the paper. This paper was supported by a grant from
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“Functional Conflict vs Dysfunctional Conflict Functional conflict Conflict is constructive when it improves the quality of decisions‚ stimulates creativity‚ innovation and encourages interest and curiosity among group members. Conflict challenges the status quo that resulted in the creation of new ideas‚ promotes reassessment of group goals and activities‚ and increases the probability that the group will respond to change. It supports the goals of the group and improve performance
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CONFLICT OR COOPERATION? THREE VISIONS REVISITED by Richard K. Betts FOREIGN AFFAIRS‚ Nov/Dec 2010 “Practical men‚ who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence‚ are usually the slave of some defunct economist‚" John Maynard Keynes once wrote. Politicians and pundits view the world through instincts and assumptions rooted in some philosopher’s Big Idea. Some ideas are old and taken for granted throughout society. For most Americans‚ it is the ideas of the liberal tradition
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“Peace is not absence of conflict‚ it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means‚” this quote by Ronald Regan shows that conflict is an inevitable part of society. Conflict is a fundamental part of life and is always present for every individual throughout their everyday life. Encountering conflict means to face or handle conflict and the ways in which we go about trying to resolve it. Different types of conflict can be local‚ national‚ religious‚ political‚ economic or cultural. There are
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Executive Summary Conflicts are inescapable in an organization. However‚ conflicts can be used as motivators for healthy change. In today’s environment‚ several factors create competition; they may be differing departmental objectives‚ individual objectives‚ and competition for use of resources or differing viewpoints. These have to be integrated and exploited efficiently to achieve organizational objectives. A manager should be able to see emerging conflicts and take appropriate pre-emptive
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The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution A Practioner’s Guide Bernard S. Mayer Chapter One The Nature of Conflict We all are of two minds about conflict. We say that conflict is natural‚ inevitable‚ necessary‚ and normal‚ and that the problem is not the existence of conflict but how we handle it. But we are also loath to admit that we are in the midst of conflict. Parents assure their children that the ferocious argument the parents are having is not a conflict‚ just a "discussion." Organizations
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Conflict in Literature Summary: Conflict in literature‚ whether it is internal or external or is physical or psychological‚ provides a way to enrich any piece of fiction or nonfiction writing. As authors as diverse as Mitch Albom‚ William Shakespeare‚ and Arthur Hugh Clough reveal through their works‚ literature and history would not have such an impact on our lives today without the presence of conflict. Types of Conflict in Literature By: Rachel Mork There are five main types of conflict
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Character vs. Character One of the simplest forms of conflict comes when one character is in opposition to another. Sometimes writers show this type of conflict between a villain and a hero‚ other times the conflict may take place between two sympathetic characters with opposing points of view. Character vs. Self Moral dilemmas are a commonly used source of conflict. businesman thinking image by forca from Fotolia.com Sometimes the conflict in literature does not come from external forces‚
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TITLE OF THE STUDY "Impact of effective conflict management on employee’s performance and productivity”. INTRODUCTION This research work will be centering on effective conflict management‚ its impact on employee’s performance‚ productivity as well as resolution‚ linking to the management and employees of the organizations. Conflict can be regarded as disagreement regarding interests or ideas (Esquivel and Kleiner‚ 1997). Managing the conflict appears when the objectives‚ goals or interests
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Conflict management in organization of communication Conflict management has developed into an important sub-field of organizational behaviour within a short time period. This trend underlines the greater acceptance of conflict as an organizational phenomenon and as a result‚ concern over its management. Reforming Romania’s public administration introduced many structural and methodical changes inside Romanian public organizations. Due to these changes and to public servants’ resistance
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