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This 4 page paper discusses various scenarios in which conflict has developed, and the strategies needed to resolve them. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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considers three scenarios in which creative problems have to be solved, and the mechanisms that might be used in each case. Discussion In the first case, a product development team
worked on an electronic game for a year, but is now stuck for a name, which they need in one week. Theyre deadlocked and getting nowhere. Primary causes of the
conflict and barriers to creativity here may lie in the fact that each person who worked on the game probably identifies strongly with the idea that it really is his,
not a team effort. Lets say that one person wrote the script, one developed the weaponry or tools or both (most games involve some sort of manipulation of objects, whether
theyre wrenches, magic wands, swords or guns), one did the animation, one worked on the software, one worked on the hardware and so on. Each probably feels that his or
her contribution is the one specific one that makes this game unique; in other words, they feel that without their work, the game will fail. What, they say, would happen
if the story didnt make sense or the animation was crude? So they each feel a strong responsibility for a part of the project but no one has a feeling
of ownership of the whole. This is reflected in the fact that after an entire year, the thing still doesnt have a name. The Personality Development Workbook suggests that
there are five conflict management styles: "competing, accommodating, avoiding, collaborating, compromising" (Moosad). Paraphrasing this source seems to indicate that there is only one that works well here. A competing style
means taking a position and refusing to move from it; those who try avoiding conflict are pretending it doesnt exist; accommodating others means one person gives up their viewpoint entirely;
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