Assignment 1
Write a 3 pages article on interpersonal conflict. Define conflict and explain how communication behaviors and individual differences contribute to interpersonal conflict. Recommend a strategy for resolving interpersonal conflict.
Conflict is part of our daily lives. Preparing yourself with the needed skills to handle conflict enhances your interpersonal skills and relationships. To understand conflict, you must begin by knowing what it is and how it affects your life.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 2: Apply theoretical perspectives on conflict.
o Define conflict.
o Describe communication behaviors that can lead to conflict.
• Competency 3: Apply appropriate strategies to reduce or resolve conflicts.
o Recommend a strategy to resolve interpersonal conflict.
• Competency 4: Analyze the impact of conflict on relationship building in face-to-face, virtual, cyber, and group communication.
o Explain how communication behaviors affect interpersonal relationships.
o Explain how individual differences contribute to interpersonal conflict.
• Competency 6: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
o Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Suppose you have been asked to write an article on interpersonal conflict for a local organization with which you are affiliated. You may choose any type of interpersonal conflict, such as between spouses, among family members, between members of a social group, or other, but your focus must be interpersonal conflict.
Preparation
Search the Internet for scholarly, professional, or other appropriate resources that address the topic of interpersonal conflict. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is not considered an appropriate resource. You will need at least 2 resources to support your work in this assessment.
Requirements
Complete the following:
• Define the term conflict. Do not simply copy a definition from a source!
o What does conflict mean to you?
o How does that compare with how others define conflict?
• Describe communication behaviors that can lead to conflict.
• Explain how the communication behaviors affect interpersonal relationships. Be sure to consider communication behaviors in a variety of situations.
• Explain how differences in gender, age, culture, race, and so on can contribute to interpersonal conflict.
• Recommend at least one strategy that can be used to resolve interpersonal conflict.
Assignment 2
Develop a 4-page report on how conflict can affect an organization. Describe reasons for conflict and explain the role of both functional and dysfunctional conflict in institutional change. Recommend strategies for resolving both functional and dysfunctional conflict.
Conflict is inevitable. As an employee of any institution, you will encounter conflict. Despite your best efforts, conflict will occur.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 1: Identify variables within structures or institutions that can promote conflict.
o Describe reasons for conflict within an institution or organization.
• Competency 3: Apply appropriate strategies to reduce or resolve conflicts.
o Recommend a conflict resolution strategy for functional conflict.
o Recommend a conflict resolution strategy for dysfunctional conflict.
• Competency 4: Analyze the impact of conflict on relationship building in face-to-face, virtual, cyber, and group communication.
o Explain the role of functional conflict in institutional change.
o Explain the role of dysfunctional conflict in institutional change.
• Competency 6: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
o Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Suppose you work in an organization that seems to experience a great deal of conflict between individuals and between departments. The director of your department has asked you to draft a report he can use to brief his colleagues in executive leadership on institutional conflict and how it can affect an organization. Part of the report needs to offer recommendations on how to resolve conflict.
Preparation
Search the Internet for scholarly or professional articles that address institutional conflict and institutional change. You will need at least 3 articles or resources to use in this assessment.
Requirements
Complete the following:
• Describe at least three reasons for conflict within an institution or organization. How might individual differences and perceptions contribute to the conflict?
• Explain the role of functional conflict in institutional change.
• Explain the role of dysfunctional conflict in institutional change.
• Recommend one conflict resolution strategy organizational leadership could use with functional conflict.
• Recommend one conflict resolution strategy organizational leadership could use with dysfunctional conflict.
Assignment 3
Write a 4-page blog post that explains how individual perceptions of power can create conflict situations between law enforcement and members of a community. Use the relational theory of power to explain how perceptions affect the ability to resolve conflict. Then, identify a conflict resolution strategy and predict the outcome.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 1: Identify variables within structures or institutions that can promote conflict.
o Describe the factors that contribute to conflict between law enforcement and members of a community.
• Competency 2: Apply theoretical perspectives on conflict.
o Use the relational theory of power to explain how perceptions of power interfere with the ability to resolve conflict.
• Competency 3: Apply appropriate strategies to reduce or resolve conflicts.
o Identify conflict resolution strategies for law enforcement-community conflicts.
• Competency 4: Analyze the impact of conflict on relationship building in face-to-face, virtual, cyber, and group communication.
o Explain how perceptions of power contribute to conflict situations.
• Competency 5: Evaluate the outcome of proposed strategies of conflict resolution.
o Determine the outcome of a conflict resolution strategy.
• Competency 6: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
o Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Suppose you are an active member of a community blog site that focuses on current events. The administrator of the blog has contacted you and asked you to write a blog on recent national events involving law enforcement agencies. The title of the blog is to be "Conflict and Power."
Preparation
Search the Internet to locate resources that address the dynamics of power and conflict (in particular, with relation to law enforcement), the relational theory of power, perceptions of power, and how things such as gender, culture, and ethnicity can affect that perception.
Requirements
Complete the following:
• Describe the factors or conditions that contribute to conflict situations between law enforcement and citizens.
• Explain how perceptions of power may contribute to conflict situations between law enforcement and members of a community. Be sure you consider the perceptions of both the police and individual citizens.
• Use the relational theory of power to explain how perceptions of power affect the ability to resolve police-community conflict.
• Identify strategies you believe might be effective in reducing or resolving conflicts between police and communities.
• Choose one strategy and determine the likely outcome.
Assignment 4
Develop a 4-page plan to identify the causes of organizational conflict, explain how conflict affects an organization, and select a conflict resolution style to use. Explain conflict negotiation strategies and determine the likely outcomes.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 1: Identify variables within structures or institutions that can promote conflict.
o Identify the factors responsible for conflict within an organization.
• Competency 3: Apply appropriate strategies to reduce or resolve conflicts.
o Describe a conflict resolution style appropriate for a conflict situation within an organization.
o Explain conflict negotiation strategies appropriate for a conflict situation within an organization.
• Competency 4: Analyze the impact of conflict on relationship building in face-to-face, virtual, cyber, and group communication.
o Explain how conflict affects an organization.
• Competency 5: Evaluate the outcome of proposed strategies of conflict resolution.
o Determine the outcomes of conflict negotiation strategies for an organization.
• Competency 6: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
o Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
You volunteer with an organization whose executive leadership has conflicted for almost a year in deep, fairly public ways, on a variety of topics. At first, the conflict seemed to center on the types of events the organization sponsored, but, recently, some members of the leadership team have been making accusations of bias based on race, culture, social status, and religion against other leadership members, including the director. The conflict is making it difficult for anyone to continue working with the organization.
The leadership team is composed of seven members. Six of the members, including the director, are women. There are two African-American members, including the only man on the team. There is one Hispanic member. The other four members, including the director, are Caucasian.
You have successfully handled small conflicts among the volunteers and staff in the past, and now they have asked you to step in and see if you can help resolve the conflict before it destroys the organization. Leadership has already agreed to bring you in to try and help the situation, but you know you need to have a solid plan for this undertaking.
Preparation
Use the Internet to research conflict negotiation strategies and conflict resolution styles. Find at least three resources to use in this assessment to support your plan.
Requirements
Include the following in your conflict resolution plan:
• Identify the factors that may be responsible for causing the conflict.
• Explain how the conflict is affecting the rest of the organization.
• Describe the conflict resolution style you will use in this situation.
• Explain the conflict negotiation strategies you will try.
• Based on your chosen strategies, determine the likely outcome.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.