Question

List and describe five potential strategies for conflict resolution in teams. Which methods have been found to be most effective in teams? Which method is likely to be most successful if your management likes to be involved in every decision? Give any personal examples you can share.

Answer 1

The five potential strategies for conflict resolution in teams are as follows -

• Avoiding - By ignoring a coflict or by sidesteping from getting involved, one can expect the conflict to get to resolve on it's own without further escalation
• Accommodating - This step is taken by those who are ready to meet the demands of the other party keeping their own demand on hold (kind of sacrifise)
• Compromising - Trying to get a common resolution or agreement that is accepted by both the parties but without fullfiling the whole demand of any of the party.
• Competing - This is just the opposite of accommodating where one party just want to fulfill their demand on the expence of other and are not willing to bend at all.
• Collaborating - Decisions are taken to meet the demands of both the parties.

I think compromising strategy for conflict resolution is most effective in teams since both the parties get compensation and none of the parties feels left out. Though, the most ideal strategy for conflict resolution is collaborating but without proper leadership and understanding between parties, it is a bit difficult to achieve.

If my management likes are being involved in every decision I think collaborating strategy can be the most successful one where all the demands of both the parties can be meat with proper listening and appropriate decision making.

I was heading this group project in high school where two of the group members got involved into a conflict where both of them wanted to individually present the project before the jury members. On was heading the content writing for the documentation while the other one was monitoring the other aspects of the project. Input from both of them were equally important for the project and no one could be neglected. So at last they both presented the project before the jury in coordination with each other. (They had proper rehearsal of presenting it together prior the jury)