Read this scenario and answer the following question.

Management at Work

You are the HR manager at FoodFaire, a local grocery store. Your clerks belong to the United Food and Commercial Workers International

Union, which has threatened a strike in $11$ days unless their demands are met. They are asking for a $12\%$ raise, and you can offer them

only $4\%.$ You can almost feel the hours ticking by$-$this is a critically important negotiation, and neither party really wants the strike.

The$\_\_\_\_\_\_$ conflict$-$handling technique is most appropriate in this situation. $($Possible answers for last question $,$ a$.$ compromising, b$.$ accomodating, c$.$ collaborating, d$.$ avoiding, e$.$ forcing$)$