Making Conflict Management a Strategic Advantage

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Статья по управлению конфликтами. 9 стр. На английском языке.Kenneth W. Thomas, Ph.D. Psychometrics Canada Ltd.This paper explored five key elements of a strategy for making conflict management a core competency in an organization: developing conflict literacy, measuring conflict styles, building conflict management skills, involving top management, and using conflict-focused team building and intervention.These elements can be applied in a flexible manner, so that they can be adapted to the specialconditions and needs of a given organization. Organizations can focus these elements on issuesthat have a special priority for them, such as innovation, retention, and productivity. They can introduce them in ways that fit their culture and overall strategy. They can also combine them with other training and team-building initiatives that are already under way. However they are introduced, these elements provide powerful concepts, skills, data, personal and group insights, and constructive norms that can make conflict management a strategic advantage for an organization—with resulting improvements in productivity, decision making, and retention.IntroductionDeveloping conflict literacymeasuring conflict stylesbuilding conflict management skillsinvolving top managementusing the modes in team building and interventionsummary