conflict

Examples of conflict in the following topics:

• Conflict Theory

  • Provide an overview of conflict theory, including its most prominent theorists.

• Role Conflict

  • Role conflict describes the conflict between or among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses held by one individual.
  • Role conflict describes a conflict between or among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses fulfilled by one individual.
  • The most obvious example of role conflict is work/family conflict, or the conflict one feels when pulled between familial and professional obligations.
  • In other words, they experience role conflict.
  • Individual personality characteristic conflicts can arise when "aspects of an individual's personality are in conflict with other aspects of that same individual's personality. "

• Styles of Interpersonal Conflict

  • Team conflict is a state of discord between individuals that work together.
  • Conflict is a feature common to social life.
  • Substantive conflicts deal with aspects of a team's work.
  • Other substantive conflicts involve how team members work together.
  • Explain the distinction between substantive and affective conflicts and between intra- and inter-organizational conflict

• Conflict in the Atlantic

• Constructive Team Conflict

  • Teams may use conflict as a strategy for continuous improvement and learning.
  • Conflict can uncover barriers to collaboration that changes in behavior can remove.
  • Team members and others can follow a few guidelines for encouraging constructive conflict.
  • This helps people view conflict as acceptable and can thus free them to speak up.
  • Explain how conflict can be used as a strategy for improving team performance

• Intergenerational Conflict

  • Intergenerational conflict refers to the conflict between older and younger generations as they compete for jobs and resources.
  • Intergenerational conflict plays a key role in the conflict perspective of aging.
  • The conflict perspective of aging is a strand of general sociological conflict theory, which is the theory that sees conflict as a normal aspect of social life rather than as an abnormal occurrence.
  • The conflict perspective of aging thus emphasizes competition between generations.
  • The conflict perspective of aging is not solely about resource acquisition.

• Team Conflict Resolution and Management

  • Some ways of dealing with conflict seek resolution; others aim to minimize negative effects on the team.
  • The way a team deals with conflicts that arise among members can influence whether and how those conflicts are resolved and, as a result, the team's subsequent performance.
  • The primary aim of conflict management is to promote the positive effects and reduce the negative effects that disputes can have on team performance without necessarily fully resolving the conflict itself.
  • Teams use one of three main tactics to manage conflict: smoothing, yielding, and avoiding.
  • Because conflict management seeks to contain such disruptions and threats to team performance, conflicts do not disappear so much as exist alongside the teamwork.

• Conflict

  • War is the quintessential example of conflict.
  • Social conflict is the struggle for agency or power within a society.
  • Conflict theory emphasizes interests deployed in conflict, rather than the norms and values.
  • This perspective argues that the pursuit of interests is what motivates conflict.
  • The three tenets of conflict theory are as follows:

• The Conflict Perspective

  • The conflict perspective, or conflict theory, derives from the ideas of Karl Marx, who believed society is a dynamic entity constantly undergoing change driven by class conflict.
  • Wright Mills is known as the founder of modern conflict theory.
  • While functionalism emphasizes stability, conflict theory emphasizes change.
  • According to the conflict perspective, society is constantly in conflict over resources, and that conflict drives social change.
  • In the conflict perspective, change comes about through conflict between competing interests, not consensus or adaptation.

• Sudan and the Conflict in Dafur