A Model of Conflict-Management Styles
In 1974, Kenneth W.
Thomas and Ralph H.
Kilmann introduced a questionnaire, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, designed to measure people’s conflict styles.
Based on people’s responses to pairs of statements, the instrument categorizes respondents into five different conflict styles:.
1) Competing.When adopting a competing style, people vi.
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Conflict-Management Styles: Lessons from Marriage Research
Can people with different conflict-management styles get along.
In his book Why Marriages Succeed or Fail . . . and How You Can Make Yours Last (Simon & Schuster, 1995), psychologist John Gottman writes that healthy marriages tend to settle into three different styles of problem solving: validating (compromising often and working out problems to mu.
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Is direct conflict management a good way to manage conflict?
An aggressive management style can set you up for repeated failure.
Direct conflict management approaches can be overly combative and counter-productive.
Experienced negotiators know that compromise seldom s쳮ds.
Win/lose is really lose/lose.
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When Conflict-Management Styles Are Complementary
By contrast, in the realm of negotiation, the results of a 2015 study published in the journal Negotiation and Conflict Management Research by Scott Wiltermuth, Larissa Z.
Tiedens, and Margaret Neale found benefits when pairs of participants used one of two differentnegotiating styles.
They assigned study participants to engage in a negotiation sim.
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