January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
130h 6m
English
2 Outline the conflict process.
The conflict process has five stages: potential opposition or incompatibility, cognition and personalization, intentions, behavior, and outcomes (see Exhibit 14-2).
The first stage of conflict is the appearance of conditions—causes or sources—that create opportunities for it to arise. These conditions need not lead directly to conflict, but one of them is necessary if it is to surface. We group the conditions into three general categories: communication, structure, and personal variables.
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