Download or read book Executive Guide to Managing Disputes written by Gary L. Kaplan and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Executive Guide to Managing Disputes not only explains why litigation is so costly, but also how to manage disputes sensibly to avoid unnecessary litigation, reduce costs, and improve results. The book shows how ADR (i.e., Alternative Dispute Resolution) can short-cut disputes, and how to use often inexpensive dispute management programs to contain costs and achieve favorable outcomes.

Download or read book Conflict Management Leader s Guide written by Paul Gerhardt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the best book on conflict management available! Based upon the latest research, this is perhaps the greatest tool ever developed to help leaders and employees of all-levels develop the best conflict management skills. Scholars agree that managing conflict can be a healthy way of illuminated new ideas and helping team members work better together to bring more efficiency creativity and effectiveness to the workplace. Just like leadership, conflict management is a skill anybody can acquire through both training program and experiences. Training program has the advantage of being able to address specific needs or circumstances in accordance to recognized potential problems in organizational life. This workbook breaks down key concepts in plain easy-to-read and easy-to-follow lessons to help you grow your leadership skills. Read the short lessons, reflect, and then build your skills by doing the short writing assignments at your own convenience.

Download or read book The Complete Guide to Conflict Resolution in the Workplace written by Marick Francis Masters and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People thrive on conflict in most areas of their lives - football games, political debates, legal disputes - yet steer clear from workplace conflicts. But conflict is actually a healthy way to challenge the existing order and essential to change in the workplace. The real problem is not conflict per se, but managing conflict. This authoritative manual explains step by step how to design a complete conflict resolution system and develop the skills to implement it. Packed with exercises, case studies, and checklists, the book also supplies: * an overview of workplace conflict * diagnostic tools for measuring it * techniques for resolving conflict, such as negotiation, labor/management partnerships, third-party dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration, more." "

Download or read book Conflict Management for Managers written by Susan S. Raines and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Raines masterfully blends the latest empirical research on workplace conflict with practical knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively manage and prevent a wide range of conflict episodes. This is a highly applicable ‘top shelf book’ that will assist anyone from the aspiring manager to top level management and leadership in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. It will also be a fast favorite of professors, trainers, and students of business and conflict management.” - Brian Polkinghorn, Distinguished Professor, Center for Conflict Resolution, Salisbury University. “With her broad dispute resolution, teaching, and editing experience, Susan Raines is uniquely qualified to organize what is known about conflict management in the workplace. She has succeeded in providing private, public, and nonprofit managers with accessible concepts and tools to deal effectively with the internal and external conflicts they must confront every day. Essential reading for all managers!” - Alan E. Gross, senior director, training coordinator, New York Peace Institute “After reading an advance copy of Raine’s impressive book, I can’t wait to begin to use it as a seminal text in my classes in organizational conflict. I am amazed at her ability to cover so well such disparate subjects as systems design, public policy disputes, small and large group processes, customer conflicts, conflicts in a unionized environment, and conflicts within regulatory contexts. Her user-friendly writing style is enhanced by her salient examples of exemplary and mistake-laden practices within public and private sector organizations. A ‘must-read’ for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in organizational conflict.” - Neil H. Katz, professor, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nova-Southeastern University “Conflict management skills are essential to a manager’s success. Raines, a leading scholar and practitioner, provides a comprehensive and strategic new guide to these critical skills and how to use them in any organization.” - Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Download or read book Managing Conflict written by David Liddle and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's a disagreement between colleagues, a dispute with management or large-scale industrial action, conflict at work is a perennial problem for organizations, their people and profits. The second edition of Managing Conflict shows HR professionals how to tackle these problems by not only resolving current issues, but also preventing future instances of conflict. It includes the latest research and case studies showing how conflict management has been impacted by hybrid working models and digitalization. There are also updates to reflect how resolution is a driver of trust in organizations, enabling people to disagree more constructively in a safe environment. This book covers the causes and costs of conflict, the impact of the psychological contract and the legal framework for managing workplace disputes both in the UK and internationally. It shows how to design a conflict management strategy, develop a formal resolution process and engage stakeholders and training managers in resolution and mediation skills. Packed with best practice examples from organizations such as Tesco, Burberry and Nationwide Building Society as well as conflict resolution resources and toolkits, this book is essential reading for all HR professionals looking to resolve conflict in the workplace.

Download or read book Managing Conflict A Practical Guide to Resolution in the Workplace getAbstract Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most companies default to outdated and process-heavy approaches to conflict management. Learn how to unlock the benefits of conflict in this audio-only review of David Liddle's book. Liddle says conflict is inevitable and can affect your whole workforce, so leaders should prepare by instituting more effective resolution policies. He offers a comprehensive overview for managing institutional conflict. Though he deals primarily with British firms, he's added enough detail from other countries to serve a broader audience. This audio-only review from getAbstract pulls the most relevant insights from this heavily researched book. This audiobook summary was created by getAbstract, the world's largest provider of 476536564 book summaries. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Download or read book Managing Public Disputes written by Susan L. Carpenter and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade, Managing Public Disputes has beenthe first choice, hands-on guide for managers, offering usefulinstructions for handling a wide range of large and small publiccontroversies from the national to the community level. Itincludes: * Ten proven principles for managing conflict * A comprehensive framework with step-by-step procedures forcreating productive outcomes * Seven illustrative case examples * Detailed advice on effective methods for collectinginformation, conducting interviews, and analyzing a conflictsituation * Suggestions for handling special problems such as reluctantparticipants, keeping people at the negotiation table, and handlingsituations where emotions are running high * Eight tasks targeted for designing an overall strategy formanaging public disputes

Download or read book Managing Conflicts of Interest written by Sarah Elizabeth Paul and published by Boardsource. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conflict and Dispute Resolution written by Mieke Brandon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: onflict and Dispute Resolution is a practical guide to understanding dispute resolution theory in the context of organisational, psychological and social work themes. It covers the spectrum of interventions; from the prevention of conflict, ignoring it, managing it through feedback, difficult conversations, self mediation, conflict coaching to facilitative processes such as dispute facilitation, mediation, concilliation and managing groups and multi party disputes. The book encourages diverse thinking about how conflict impacts not only on the individual, but also on relationships in their broadest sense, at home, at work, locally and globally. The authors show how to apply the theoretical aspects of mediation to skill building for conflict management, negotiation and mediation, and include discussion of assessment methods. Conflict Resolution and Mediation is comprehensive in its coverage of all the skills and processes needed by students, coaches, mentors and practitioners to help deal with dilemmas and become reflective practitioners. It is complete with case studies, clear examples and dialogue extracts to assist in becoming more aware and more effective at beign able to provide an appropriate process for parties to achieve their outcome.

Download or read book Designing Conflict Management Systems written by Cathy A. Costantino and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As social stresses escalate and organizations experience more turbulence and uncertainty, conflict in the workplace is on the rise. This book presents a clear, step-by-step approach for developing and evaluating conflict management systems within any organization.

Download or read book Conflict 101 written by Susan H. SHEAROUSE and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mild disagreements to major personnel blowouts, conflict in the workplace is unavoidable. Drawing lightheartedly from stories of her own slipups and disagreements as well as examples from her twenty years of experience as a conflict resolution professional, author Susan Shearouse reveals how conflict is created, how to respond to it, and how to manage it more effectively so that your team can get back to doing what it does best: producing top results for your organization. Conflict 101 employs research, humor, and oh-so-relatable anecdotes to help readers more deeply understand what it takes to build trust, harness negative emotions, encourage apologies and forgiveness, use a solution-seeking approach, and say what needs to be said in the workplace to move past conflicts. Whether it’s a fight over resources, a disagreement about how to get things done, or an argument stemming from perceived differences in identities or values, the manager’s role is to navigate relationships, build compromises, and encourage better collaboration. In doing so, you’ll not only become a stronger manager--you’ll build a much stronger team.

Download or read book When Goliaths Clash Managing Executive Conflict to Build a More Dynamic Organization written by Howard M. Guttman and published by Guttman Development. This book was released on 2008 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing Public Disputes written by Susan L. Carpenter and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1988-04-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for decision makers who deal with public disputes. It outlines step by step how to analyze a dispute, determine the best approach for managing it, and set up specific procedures for negotiating and carrying out agreements.

Download or read book Conflict Management written by Peter Condliffe and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a number of essential conflict management approaches, strategies, tactics and techniques, and reinforces understanding of these with excercises, questions, role plays and simulations. The book takes a positive approach to conflict as a potentially creative and dynamic stimulus to interpersonal and group relations.

Download or read book Conflict Management for Managers written by Susan S. Raines and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Raines masterfully blends the latest empirical research on workplace conflict with practical knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively manage and prevent a wide range of conflict episodes. This is a highly applicable ‘top shelf book’ that will assist anyone from the aspiring manager to top level management and leadership in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. It will also be a fast favorite of professors, trainers, and students of business and conflict management.” - Brian Polkinghorn, Distinguished Professor, Center for Conflict Resolution, Salisbury University. “With her broad dispute resolution, teaching, and editing experience, Susan Raines is uniquely qualified to organize what is known about conflict management in the workplace. She has succeeded in providing private, public, and nonprofit managers with accessible concepts and tools to deal effectively with the internal and external conflicts they must confront every day. Essential reading for all managers!” - Alan E. Gross, senior director, training coordinator, New York Peace Institute “After reading an advance copy of Raine’s impressive book, I can’t wait to begin to use it as a seminal text in my classes in organizational conflict. I am amazed at her ability to cover so well such disparate subjects as systems design, public policy disputes, small and large group processes, customer conflicts, conflicts in a unionized environment, and conflicts within regulatory contexts. Her user-friendly writing style is enhanced by her salient examples of exemplary and mistake-laden practices within public and private sector organizations. A ‘must-read’ for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in organizational conflict.” - Neil H. Katz, professor, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nova-Southeastern University “Conflict management skills are essential to a manager’s success. Raines, a leading scholar and practitioner, provides a comprehensive and strategic new guide to these critical skills and how to use them in any organization.” - Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Download or read book The Manager s Guide to Mediating Conflict written by Alison Love and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a manager who wants to develop their conflict management skills and gain a greater understanding on how meditation offers a clear framework for effective conflict resolution, this book is for you.

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