Conflict Resolution Models to Deconstruct Conflict Situations

 

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 3: Deconstructing Conflicts in required course textbook.

In your study of conflict resolution and management, you will encounter many different models of how to resolve conflicts. Conflict resolution models help the user to deconstruct conflict and to seek strategies to resolve those conflicts. To that end, comparing conflict resolution models is a good exercise for aspiring organizational leaders to better understand how to resolve or manage conflicts. This assignment will focus, however, on the Change-Oriented Conflict Analysis (p. 58) from Chapter 3 of the course textbook but will also examine either Wehr's Conflict Map (p. 55) or the Hocker-Wilmot Conflict Assessment Guide (p. 57).

 

 

• Describe the Change-Oriented Conflict Analysis model and each of its steps.
• Describe a professional conflict situation within an organizational setting.
• Apply the Change-Oriented Conflict Analysis to that conflict.
• Select either the Wehr's Conflict Map or the Hocker-Wilmot Conflict Assessment Guide, and apply your selected conflict model to that same conflict situation.
• Compare your selected conflict resolution model with the Change-Oriented Conflict Analysis. Be sure to
  • Describe the advantages of each conflict resolution model.
  • Describe the disadvantages of each conflict resolution model.
• Explain which conflict resolution model is better suited to resolve your conflict situation.