scholarly journals Power Asymmetry, Negotiations and Conflict Management in Organizations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyriaki Fousiani
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Power Asymmetry ◽  
Resolution Power ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Negotiation Literature ◽  
Asymmetric Relationships ◽  
The Way

Relationships are seldom equal. In fact, social interactions involve most of the times power asymmetric relationships. Especially in organizations people are daily faced with situations where they are either in a powerful or in a powerless position compared to others. Power stems from various sources and takes several forms. For instance, people are powerful when they can administer punishments or rewards, when they are in a hierarchically higher position than others, when they have knowledge and expertise, when they are admired and respected, and when they have alternative options which enable them to make choices. Importantly, power determines the way people interact with each other and subsequently, the way they engage in conflicts and conflict resolution. Power-holders are best able to asymmetrically enforce their will and therefore, they have the capability to determine the process and the outcome of a conflict. In this chapter, I present the major sources of power and the main differences between them. Consequently, I elaborate on the impact of power on conflict management based on the negotiation literature. I conclude by touching on the necessity to distinguish between two contradictory faces of power: power as opportunity and power as responsibility.

The problem of entanglement: Biases and fallacies in police conflict management

2021 ◽  
pp. 146135572110640
Author(s):  
Mario S Staller ◽  
Benjamin Zaiser ◽  
Swen Koerner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
External Influences ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Excessive Use Of Force ◽  
Systemic Understanding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Cognitive biases have been identified as drivers of the excessive use of force, which has determined current affairs across the globe. In this article, we argue that the police are facing serious challenges in combating these biases. These challenges stem from the nature of cognitive biases, their sources and the fallacies that mislead police professionals in the way they think about them. Based on a framework of expert decision-making fallacies and biases, we argue that these fallacies limit the impact of efforts to mitigate cognitive biases in police conflict management. In order to achieve a systemic understanding of cognitive biases and their detrimental effects, the article concludes that implementing reflexive structures within the police is a crucial prerequisite to effectively reflect on external influences and to limit bias and fallacies from further unfolding in a self-referential loop.

scholarly journals The effect of Bosnian and Herzegovinian national culture on conflict resolution styles in foreign-owned companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-94
Author(s):  
Dijana Husaković ◽  
Anida Šabanović
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Conflict Resolution Styles ◽  
The Impact

Conflicts are an integral part of doing business and companies cannot avoid them. In a globalized and dynamic environment, there is a need to manage conflicts that occur within the company, in a productive and effective way. Conflict management styles are influenced by a number of factors, including the national culture of employees, who will have certain preferences in resolving conflicts in accordance with their culture. When it comes to multicultural environment, the knowledge of the national culture of the country in which the business is being done, as well as the company's home country, national culture is extremely important for conflict management and creation of positive atmosphere in the company. Doing business in a foreign market additionally complicates the process of the creation of interpersonal conflicts. Thus, top management coming from the home country has a big task of understanding the values and customs which are the part of personality of each employee from another country, and at the same time, the understanding of the national culture of the country in which the business was internationalized. The aim of the research is to, based on theoretical and empirical research, examine the impact of Bosnian and Herzegovinian national culture on conflict resolution styles used in foreign companies doing business in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Research results show that the national culture is a significant factor in conflict management in a company, but also in conflicts in general. The level of harmonization of chosen styles and ways of managing them with the national culture of the employees will affect their business performance, positive atmosphere and communication, and more efficiency for achieving the company's business goals.

scholarly journals To Manage, Resolve or Transform? The Way Forward for the EU in the Middle East Peace Process

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Persson
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Just Peace ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

This article argues that 40 years of EU peacebuilding in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have produced few significant results with a possible exception to this being the parameters provided by the EU for a just peace in the conflict. In any case, it is difficult to characterise these past four decades of EU involvement as anything other than a failure. Consequently, the main argument of this article is that a new strategy for the EU’s peacebuilding in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is urgently needed. As both the approaches of conflict management and conflict resolution have been tried and have failed, this article argues that the EU has far better potential in transforming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than in managing or resolving it. An EU strategy more clearly based on the principles of conflict transformation is therefore the best way forward for the EU in the Middle East peace process.

New technologies and terminological pressure in lesser-used languages

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Neal Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Virtual Resources ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Taking the impact of the Wikipedia on the Breton language as a case in point, whilst highlighting the huge potential benefits that new technologies have to offer to economically less viable languages as a whole, this article discusses the way internet-based systems can have an impact on the terminological pressure exerted on such languages in many specialised areas. The article goes on to analyse possible conflict resolution mechanisms for competing terminological strategies and the relative merits and shortcomings of each. While centred on the specific case of a European “minority” or “lesser used” language, the article shows the extent to which the discussion and findings can also be relevant to the way other equally economically challenged languages around the globe can evolve and develop unfettered, thanks to the use of free-access virtual resources such as Wikipedia.

scholarly journals Oorvloedige liefde en konflikhantering: basisteoretiese perspektiewe uit Filippense

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Pretorius ◽  
B.J. De Klerk
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Abundant love and conflict management: Basis-theoretical perspectives from Philippians The management of conflict in the process of building the Lord’s church remains an issue in need of basis-theoretical guidelines based upon Scripture. The rhetorical analyses of Philippians during the past decade have brought about a better understanding of the structure and theme of the letter, but have failed to point out the performative effect of the paradigm “behind” the compilation of the letter. This paradigm (here referred to as “the abundant love of Christ”) is not only mentioned in the letter itself, but the method of discourse analysis used in this article also reveals the impact of this love illustrated by the way that Pauls deals with various kinds of conflict. A more detailed analysis of the introduction of the letter (1:3- 11, esp. v. 9-11) clearly underscores the existence and importance of Christ’s love in Paul’s writings and for the Philippians. Although the members of the Philippian congregation were partners in the furthering of the gospel, they missed Paul’s mindset of love to a great extent. Through excellent rhetorical techniques this letter inspires the reader of today to use Paul’s mindset in contemporary conflict management. The existence of such a mindset can be evaluated by means of empirical questions for the purposes of practical theology.

scholarly journals CURRENT ASPECTS OF STRATEGIC CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN THE SYSTEM OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Ivan Sliusarev Ivan Sliusarev
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Management Algorithm ◽  
Constructive Conflict ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Objective Description ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Strategic Conflict

The article examines the current components of strategic conflict management at the local government level. The importance of constructive conflicts that can prevent stagnation and stimulate further development of systems is emphasized. It is established that conflict management is aimed at choosing a method that will minimize the impact of negative emotions, give an objective description of the situation, determine further constructive actions of the parties to the conflict. It is emphasized that management without conflicts is impossible and the main strategies of conflict management in the system of local government are presented. It is noted that constructive conflict resolution provides certain options. Methods of conflict resolution, as well as their positive and negative sides, are described. The author's vision of an effective conflict management algorithm in the system of local government is presented and the need for proper assessment of the risk of conflicts to increase the effectiveness of this process is emphasized. Keywords: conflict management, local government, risk management, strategic conflict management, conflict resolution.

scholarly journals MANAJEMEN KONFLIK KELUARGA POLIGAMI DAN MONOGAMI

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Rini Tri Utami ◽  
Marty Mawarpury
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Probability Sampling ◽  
The Impact

Family conflict is a natural and common thing whether in polygamous or monogamous families. How to manage conflict can determine the impact of the conflict. The purpose of this study was tofind out the differences in conflict management between polygamous and monogamous families.This study used a quantitative approach with a non-probability sampling method using purposivesampling technique with 60 respondents (30 respondents from polygamous families and 30respondents from monogamous families). data was collected using conflict management scale, thatdeveloped by the researcher based on the theory of family conflict resolution. The result of ManWhitney Test showed that a significant value 0.358, which mean that there were no differencesbetween polygamous and monogamous families in managing conflict.

scholarly journals Culture Communication: Is an Effective Support for Conflict Resolution and Peace Process in Myanmar?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsu Thiri Zaw
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Approach ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Impact

Culture is a system of shared belief and customs in the society. In other way, culture is the symbol of the life of people. Myanmar and its citizen has suffered the trauma of ethnic conflicts throughout the history since 1948. The governments of Myanmar throughout the times have also been finding the solution for conflict resolution and peace process based on the political approach. Now, it is the time for considering about an alternative approach to conflict resolution and peace process based on the culture which is the symbol of the people. The study aims to provide the new interpretation in completing conflict resolution by Myanmar government and a kind of support that can reveal the hidden and being forgotten cultures and identities of ethnic minority groups in Myanmar based on cultural communication. The researcher made two group discussions with ethnic people in two ethnic regions of Myanmar and had in-depth conversation for detailed facts and information. The research mainly presents the impact of culture communication as a better tool for conflict resolution and peace process based on the real voices of ethnic people.

Narrative, Intertext and Allusion in the Qur'anic Presentation of Job

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Johns
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Key Words And Phrases ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Job (Ayyūb) is a byword for patience in the Islamic tradition, notwithstanding only six Qur'anic verses are devoted to him, four in Ṣād (vv.41-4), and two in al-Anbiyā' (vv.83-4), and he is mentioned on only two other occasions, in al-Ancām (v.84) and al-Nisā' (v.163). In relation to the space devoted to him, he could be accounted a ‘lesser’ prophet, nevertheless his significance in the Qur'an is unambiguous. The impact he makes is achieved in a number of ways. One is through the elaborate intertext transmitted from the Companions and Followers, and recorded in the exegetic tradition. Another is the way in which his role and charisma are highlighted by the prophets in whose company he is presented, and the shifting emphases of each of the sūras in which he appears. Yet another is the wider context created by these sūras in which key words and phrases actualize a complex network of echoes and resonances that elicit internal and transsūra associations focusing attention on him from various perspectives. The effectiveness of this presentation of him derives from the linguistic genius of the Qur'an which by this means triggers a vivid encounter with aspects of the rhythm of divine revelation no less direct than that of visual iconography in the Western Tradition.

Invention of Judaism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Judaism is often understood as the way of life defined by the Torah of Moses, but it was not always so. This book identifies key moments in the rise of the Torah, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy, advancing through the reform of Ezra, the impact of the suppression of the Torah by Antiochus Epiphanes and the consequent Maccabean revolt, and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. It also discusses variant forms of Judaism, some of which are not Torah-centered and others which construe the Torah through the lenses of Hellenistic culture or through higher, apocalyptic, revelation. It concludes with the critique of the Torah in the writings of Paul.

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