- Title
- Analysis of strategies used by an organisation to manage conflict
- Creator
- Lourens, Ann Sharon
- Subject
- Conflict management
- Subject
- Negotiation in business
- Subject
- Mediation
- Date Issued
- 2000
- Date
- 2000
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MTech
- Identifier
- vital:10828
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/18
- Identifier
- Conflict management
- Identifier
- Negotiation in business
- Identifier
- Mediation
- Description
- This research study addresses the problem of determining the strategies that can be used to manage conflict effectively. To achieve this objective a comprehensive literature study was performed to determine the views on conflict and various models of conflict. The study also included the reasons for and sources of conflict and the effects of conflict on an organisation. The next step was to identify the conflict management strategies that were revealed by the literature study. The appropriate conflict handling styles, how to improve organisational practices and special rules and structures were discussed as well as various suggestions from different authors on how to resolve a conflict situation. Based on the information obtained from the literature study a model was developed to serve as a guide to organisations to manage conflict effectively. Managers from a specific organisation were requested to complete questionnaires in order to determine the strategies used by their organisation to manage conflict. The questionnaire was developed in accordance with the findings from the research. The answers of the respondents were analysed and compared to the findings of the literature study. The information obtained from the literature study and from the respondents resulted in various recommendations and conclusions. The previously mentioned model that was developed was applied to the organisation, specifically addressing the pertinent issues as indicated by the respondents.
- Format
- xiii, 125 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Port Elizabeth Technikon
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management, Business Administration
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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