Cja 444 Week 4 Conflict Management Styles
Conflict Management Styles
Kristin Thornton
CJA/444
January 27, 2014
William McCauley
Conflict Management Styles
Conflict occurs when someone has or is about to negatively affect something that another individual cares about. It is how individuals respond to and resolve conflict in the workplace that can limit or enable his or her success. If an individual understands conflict and the conflict patterns he or she may exhibit can empower him or her to make better decisions when he or she is facing a particular conflict. Conflict can occur through various sources, such as personality traits.
Conflict styles Individuals also have different conflict styles. For instance, an individual style of thinking or communicating may …show more content…
This can come at the cost of the other coworkers. The competing approach is only appropriate for emergencies, decisive action, or is every coworker is aware of the approach and supports it.
Compromising
Compromise is a “lose-lose” approach. It is when everyone gives something up that they value (Wright State University, u.d.). The compromise approach requires individuals to cooperate with one another, but it is an easy way out if each individual has an equally important goal, when collaborating could have been a better solution for the group of individuals.
Workplace
“I” am a Geospatial Engineer, who works with the 177th Topographical Engineering Unit and the conflict management style the unit uses would best be described as avoiding, which is not the best approach for conflict. Avoiding conflict could cause chaos within the workplace and never helps when it is an important situation. “My” preference would be to follow the collaborating approach. If the unit would collaborate with every individual in the unit to make sure everyone is following the chain of command and is given the same information it could help set the unit up for
Kristin Thornton
CJA/444
January 27, 2014
William McCauley
Conflict Management Styles
Conflict occurs when someone has or is about to negatively affect something that another individual cares about. It is how individuals respond to and resolve conflict in the workplace that can limit or enable his or her success. If an individual understands conflict and the conflict patterns he or she may exhibit can empower him or her to make better decisions when he or she is facing a particular conflict. Conflict can occur through various sources, such as personality traits.
Conflict styles Individuals also have different conflict styles. For instance, an individual style of thinking or communicating may …show more content…
This can come at the cost of the other coworkers. The competing approach is only appropriate for emergencies, decisive action, or is every coworker is aware of the approach and supports it.
Compromising
Compromise is a “lose-lose” approach. It is when everyone gives something up that they value (Wright State University, u.d.). The compromise approach requires individuals to cooperate with one another, but it is an easy way out if each individual has an equally important goal, when collaborating could have been a better solution for the group of individuals.
Workplace
“I” am a Geospatial Engineer, who works with the 177th Topographical Engineering Unit and the conflict management style the unit uses would best be described as avoiding, which is not the best approach for conflict. Avoiding conflict could cause chaos within the workplace and never helps when it is an important situation. “My” preference would be to follow the collaborating approach. If the unit would collaborate with every individual in the unit to make sure everyone is following the chain of command and is given the same information it could help set the unit up for