Stuck in the middle of a disagreement between colleagues or caught in another conflict at work? Here’s how leaders can resolve conflicts in the workplace.
Learn how blending Eastern and Western philosophies creates best approaches to paradox management. Paper introduces polarity map and duality map tools emphasizing why, what, and how to achieve paradox management while retaining a paradoxical lens.
Explore how thought-provoking images facilitate reflective conversation during change. Research demonstrates mediated dialogue using visual objects to make difficult conversations less challenging and more valuable, changing how we discuss organizational transformation.
Understand how gender and national culture influence leadership responses to gender-based tension conflicts from 218 US and South African employees. Study reveals that women believe respect and equality responses are more helpful than men, with gender-culture interaction effects.
Learn how soial identity contributes to conflict in diverse organizations. Research identifies situations activating identity-based tensions, examining how leaders recognize and respond to conflicts rooted in demographic and cultural group memberships.
Learn about managing conflict while facing new challenges in a changing world. Research addresses evolving conflict dynamics in diverse, globalized organizations, providing strategies for constructive conflict resolution and stakeholder engagement.
Examine collision courses when social identity leads to conflict in diverse organizational settings. Research explores how group memberships activate tensions, examining identity-based conflict dynamics and resolution strategies.
Examine improving the effectiveness of conflict within nurse teams in healthcare settings. Research explores constructive conflict management strategies to enable nursing teams to leverage disagreements for enhanced decision-making, innovation, and patient care quality.
Examine perspective-taking strategies to managing team conflict and emotional dynamics. Research demonstrates how encouraging team members to consider others’ viewpoints reduces tensions, improves communication, and enhances collaboration in diverse work groups.
Learn whether conflict can improve team effectiveness through constructive engagement. Research examines conditions under which disagreements enhance rather than damage team performance, identifying facilitation strategies and supportive contexts.