Question

Describe your preferred conflict-management style (collaborative, competitive, accommodating, avoidance, or compromising) and discuss how it complements your personal leadership theory. What types of situations would prompt you to use an alternative conflict management style and why?

Answer 1

My preferred management style has to be compromising and there are a number of reasons for this. Compromising management style means that each part that is involved in the process of the conflict has to give up something in order to meet the other party halfway. This not only allows the interests of both the parties to be kept on the table it also provides a reasonable amount of a sense of collaboration or cooperation which is essentially what resolves the conflict itself the next time around. The leadership theory that I prefer is democratic and being able to accommodate the interests of both the parties together allows the benefit of being true to one style of leadership and saves a lot of doubts in the mind of the workforce.

The only case I would not choose this style of management is when the other party is making such unreasonable demands or if the situation calls for a solution that would inevitably be the cause of disruption to one of the party. Hard decisions need to be taken into consideration for the purpose of coming up with a viable solution and may require the use of another style of management.