Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution Depending on the situation, whether it be in our personal or professional lives, we all use one of the five conflict management styles, accommodation, avoidance, competition, compromise, and collaboration to resolve conflict. We may use one style more than the other four more regularly, but all five are used. Let us define the five conflict management styles first. The accommodation style smoothes over the conflict. Accommodation "involves playing down differences among the conflicting …

…the five conflict management styles, accommodation, avoidance, competition, compromise, and collaboration to resolve conflict regularly, but we also can also use the other four. Conflict resolution can be a subtle or conscious process, whichever of the five conflict management styles are used. We run into conflict every day, therefore the conflict will be resolved by a conflict management style. Work Cited Schermerhorn, John R. Jr., et al. Organizational Behavior. 7th ed.USA: University of Phoenix, 2002.