Provide a brief response to eachof the following questions.

1. How can team conflict affect performance? Is conflict always bad?

2. How can managerial or third-party interventions reduce conflict?

3. How does managing conflict differ across cultures? Do public and private sectors count as distinct cultures in this regard?

4. Why isbargaining important in the context of conflict negotiation? How does this relate to other public-sector oriented readings inthis course?