Assignment task: Consider the following scenario:
Your school has been asked to participate in a pilot program within your district that is dealing with facility efficiencies. Participation in the program will require your school to begin and end operations one hour later than the standard within your community. Your principal has agreed to become part of the pilot program. During the first week of school, it is clear that there are many conflict issues that are surfacing. One issue of major concern to the school is the complaints coming from parents and students regarding late bus rides and late nights completing homework. During class and in the hallways, students are overhearing complaints and reactions from the teachers about the new schedule. Your principal knows that you have been focusing on conflict management and conflict resolution in your course work and has asked you to develop a conflict resolution procedure to address this and similar problems.
Based on the scenario, discuss the following:
Q1. What would be the core elements of a conflict resolution procedure that you would develop?
Q2. As a leader, what would concern you most if this situation arose? Why?
Q3. What do you think about other solutions proposed by the class?
Q4. What would you change or improve about some of the other approaches to the situation?