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A 5 page paper discussing minimizing the potential destructiveness of conflict through awareness of conflict styles as delineated in Hall's Conflict Management Survey. Conflict truly can be found in any situation involving more than one person and one set of ideas. An awareness of Hall's conflict styles can aid in resolving that conflict more quickly, whether it be in a manner of compromise or competition and whether it be in the board room or in the back yard, allowing the participants to return more quickly to the issues at hand. There are strengths in each style of conflict advantageous to each setting, and it is up to those involved to make honest assessment of which style would best suit their purposes and the current issues before them. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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a relationship, a business process or a marketing plan-if there is no "crisis point" to initiate evaluation of conditions as they exist. In short, the stimulus of something being
broken often provides the impetus to fix it. There have been a variety of interpretation of conflict management styles over the years, with
some of the most popular and useful ones being relatively old, at least in terms of research age. Halls (1969) Conflict Management Survey is one of the leading models;
others include Blake and Moutons (1964) model; the Thomas- Kilmann (1974) Conflict MODE Instrument; and Rahims (1983) Organizational Conflict Inventory (Volkema and Bergmann 5). Each has its own variations
from the other models, but they all share the common characteristic of being two-dimensional interpreted in five style descriptions. Those five conflict styles are: "(a) collaborating (high
assertiveness, high cooperativeness), (b) competing (high assertiveness, low cooperativeness), (c) accommodating (low assertiveness, high cooperativeness), (d) avoiding (low assertiveness, low cooperativeness), and (e) compromising (medium assertiveness, medium cooperativeness)" (Volkema and
Bergmann 5). The styles of conflict as outlined in Halls Conflict Management Survey are useful in a variety of situations and can
be of nearly universal application for assessing intrapersonal conflict in settings ranging from home life to the board room. Because of this adaptability to application in nearly all situations,
Halls survey is used extensively in "American academic research, training seminars, and organizational intervention and development" (Volkema and Bergmann 5). It also has
contributed to the debate whether, in fact, conflict is a good thing. One school holds that conflict is always detrimental and should be avoided in all arenas and at
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