Resolving Conflicts at Work: Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job

ISBN-13: 9780470922248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str.

Kenneth Cloke

Opis

The classic text on resolving workplace conflicts, fully revised and updated Resolving Conflicts at Work is a guide for preventing and resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work, including dozens of techniques for revealing how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the workplace are actually opportunities for greater creativity, productivity, enhanced morale, and personal growth. In the third edition of this text, all chapters are completely infused with additional content, updated examples, and new case studies. Like its predecessors, it identifies core strategies for preventing and resolving both intermittent and chronic conflicts in the workplace. In addition, the book

• Includes a new foreword by Warren Bennis, which represents his most recent thinking about judgment calls and candid communications in the workplace
• Presents new chapters on leadership and transformational conflict coaching, and organizational systems design

This definitive and comprehensive work provides a handy guide for managers, employees, union representatives, human resource experts, and consultants seeking to maintain stable and productive workplaces.

Spis treści

Foreword: Conflict: An Opportunity for Leadership (Warren Bennis).

Acknowledgments.

Introduction. Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job.

Strategy One. Understand the Culture and Dynamics of Conflict.

Strategy Two. Listen Empathetically and Responsively.

Strategy Three. Search Beneath the Surface for Hidden Meaning.

Strategy Four. Acknowledge and Reframe Emotions.

Strategy Five. Separate What Matters from What Gets in the Way.

Strategy Six. Solve Problems Paradoxically and Creatively.

Strategy Seven. Learn from Difficult Behaviors.

Strategy Eight. Lead and Coach for Transformation.

Strategy Nine. Explore Resistance and Negotiate Collaboratively.

Strategy Ten. Mediate and Design Systems for Prevention.

The Authors.

Index.

O autorze

Kenneth Cloke is director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, consultant, and trainer.Joan Goldsmith is an organizational consultant and educator specializing in leadership development and organizational change.Cloke and Goldsmith draw on more than thirty years of practical experience in organizational consulting with hundreds of organizations in the United States and internationally, from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, schools, and nonprofits. They are coauthors of four previous books, including Resolving Conflicts at Work (Jossey-Bass, 2000).