This document summarizes interpersonal conflict and negotiation skills. It discusses various types of conflict including interpersonal, intergroup, and organizational conflict. It describes sources of interpersonal conflict such as personal differences and role incompatibility. Strategies for resolving interpersonal conflict include collaborating, compromising, accommodating, avoiding, and forcing. Effective negotiation involves both distributive and integrative approaches and developing strong negotiation skills. The document provides an overview of concepts relating to conflict management and resolution.
2. Introduction
Conflict
A process that begins when party perceives that
another party has negatively or about to affect
something that the first party cares about.
5. Overt
covert
A Model of Frustration
NEED DRIVE GOAL
(deficiency) ( deficiency BARRIER
with direction)
FRUSTRATION
Defense mechanisms
Aggression
Withdrawal
Fixation
Compromise
Overt
Covert
6. Goal Conflict
Three type of goal conflict are –
Approach - approach conflict
Approach – avoidance conflict
Avoidance –avoidance conflict
7. Role Conflict and
Ambiguity:
Role of
expectation
Perception
of focal
person’s
behaviours
Evaluation
Perceptio
ns of
messages
and
pressures
Role
conflict
Role
ambiguity
ROLE SENDER FOCAL PERSON
Role
messages
Role
pressures
Role
messages
Role
pressures
8. Interpersonal Conflict
Two individuals get into
conflict over an issue, such
conflict is called interpersonal
conflict.
Such conflicts may arise
because of incompatibility
between individuals or when
an individual perceives that
his image is under threat
because of the actions of
another individual .
10. Analysis of interpersonal
conflict
Collaborating –A situation in which the parties
to a conflict each desire to satisfy fully the
concerns of all parties.
Compromising-Compromising is also described
as a "give and take" style. Conflicting parties
bargain to reach a mutually acceptable solution.
Both parties give up something in order to reach a
decision and leave with some degree of
satisfaction.
11. Accommodating-The willingness of one party
in a conflict to place the opponent’s interests
above his or her own.
Avoiding-The desire to withdraw from or
suppress a conflict.
Forcing-Forcing is also known as competing,
controlling, or dominating style. Forcing occurs
when one party goes all out to win it's position
while ignoring the needs and concerns of the
other party.
13. WIN-LOSE APPROACH
People learn the behaviors of destructive
conflict early in life –
competition,dominance,aggression and defense
permeate many of our social.
It involves secret strategies,threat.
LOSE –LOSE STRATEGY
Is exemplified by smoothing over conflict or by
reaching the simplest of compromises in neither
case in the creative potential of productive
conflict resolution realize or explored.
14. WIN-WIN APPROACH
Attempt to maximize the goals of both parties
through collaboration problem solving.
Emphasis on the quality of the long term
relationship between the parties rather than
short term accommodation.
15. Intergroup Behavior
Behavior toward another person or group based on
their group identification.
“GROUP” includes many types of things that can
be used to categorize people, as race, sex,
nationality, social class, profession, age, sexual
identity, religion, etc.,
16. Intergroup Conflict
Intergroup conflict involves opposition and
clashes between groups .
It often occurs in union-management relation
such conflicts may be highly intense drawn out,
and costly to the groups involved
17. Why Intergroup Conflict
Occurs ?
Work Interdependence
It occur when two or more organizational groups
depend on one another to complete their task
Barriers to communication
Differences in goals
Differences in Perceptions
19. Vertical Conflict
Clashes between employees at different levels in
an organization
Horizontal conflict
Clashes between groups employees at the same
hierarchical level in an organization
Line-staff Conflict
Clashes over authority relationships often involve
line –staff conflict
Diversity –based conflict
It appear to be related to issue
of race, gender, ethnicity and religion
20. • Conflict within the
group is high
• There are negative
interactions between
groups (or between
members of those
groups)
• Influential third-party
gossip about other group
is negative
• Work to eliminate specific negative
interactions between groups (and
members).
• Conduct team building to reduce
intergroup conflict and prepare
employees for cross-functional teamwork.
• Encourage personal friendships and
good working relationships across
groups and departments.
• Foster positive attitudes toward
members of other groups (empathy,
compassion, sympathy).
• Avoid or neutralize negative gossip
across groups or departments.
Recommended actions:
Level of perceived
Inter-group conflict tends
to increase when:
Minimizing Inter-group Conflict:
An Updated Contact Model
21. Organizational Conflict
. Organizational conflict is opposition or
disagreement, as an open discussion between
two or more groups in an organization
Conflict may involve a difference of opinion
regarding business goals or lack of resources
in a company.
22. Reasons of Conflict
The factors that generate conflicts are scarcity,
obstruction and incompatible interests or goals etc.
Resource scarcity, either monetary, job, prestige or
power, encourages the obstruction of behaviour
and conflict arises. Conflict can also be broken out
when one party avoids the goal achievement of the
other one.
23. Consequences of Conflict
Consequences of conflict
can be positive or
negative:
Positive Consequences of
Conflict:
Increased involvement
* Increased innovation and
creativity
* Personal growth and
change
* Clarification of key issues
Negative consequences
of conflict
* Unresolved anger
* Wastage of resources
* Negative climate
* Less self esteem
* Inefficiency
24. Conditions which influence an
organization towards conflict
situations
Ambiguous jurisdictions
Communication barriers
Dependence on one party
Differentiation in organization
Association of the parties
Unresolved prior conflicts
25. Organization Conflict
Theories
MATURITY-IMMATURITY THEORY
According to Maslow, Rogers, and other writers of
the growth schools, there is a basic tendency in
the development of the human personality
toward self-fulfillment, or self-actualization. This
implies that as an individual matures, he wants
to be given more responsibility, broader
horizons, and the opportunity to develop his
personal potential. This process is interrupted
whenever a person's environment fails to
encourage and nurture these desires.
26. Distributive negotiation: Single issue; fixed-pie; win-lose.
Integrative negotiation: More than one issue; win-win.
Negotiation: “A give-and-take decision-making process
involving interdependent parties with different preferences.”
Negotiation
27. 17-27
Integrative Negotiation
Integrative Negotiation
Parties perceive that they might be able to increase the
resource pie by trying to come up with a creative solution
to the conflict
View the conflict as a win-win situation in which both
parties can gain
Handled through collaboration or compromise
28. 17-28
Distributive Negotiation
Distributive negotiation
Parties perceive that they have a “fixed pie” of resources
that they need to divide
Take a competitive adversarial stance
See no need to interact in the future
Do not care if their interpersonal relationship is damaged
by their competitive negotiation
29. Negotiation Skills
Act assertively to achieve objectives
Reduce resistance & minimise conflict
Know how & when to accept the opinions,
values & will of others
Work to achieve a WIN-WIN situation
Negotiation is also a process that is of benefit to
all parties
30. • Emphasises the relationship
between the two parties
• Encourages the spirit of any
agreement reached
Traditional Approach
Has two sides
Has opposing objectives approach
Is a form of warfare
Has a short sighted
Formal Negotiation Informal Negotiation
Favours the party with the strongest
power base
Limits the likelihood of
informal talks
Emphasises the letter of agreement