The Essential Guide to Workplace Mediation and Conflict Resolution
by Nora Doherty, Marcelas Guyler
Why and how should managers respond to conflict?
Successful conflict management in the workplace depends initially on the attitude, understanding and skills of first-line managers and their willingness to respond to conflict. This is clearly not an easy task; as we have seen the pace of modern business and organizational change, market and customer demands and the growing complexity of work roles and tasks mean that managers have to keep many balls in the air and need to be equipped with a large range of process and people skills.
Traditionally managers have been trained and equipped primarily to deliver results around systems of ‘performance management’, and hence many managers feel some trepidation when they encounter employees with issues ...
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