Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
Review Chapter 5: Negotiation Skills and Resolving Conflicts With Others
Review Chapter 6: Dealing With Anger, Aggression, and Bullying
Read Chapter 8: Apologies, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
In your study on conflict management and conflict resolution, the literature has revealed three behaviors that could be helpful in managing a business or organizational-based conflict and three behaviors that could prove detrimental to a business-based conflict. In the short run, each behavior could lead to at least a win-lose situation for participants to the conflict. In the long run, some of the behaviors could produce a lasting win-win situation, while other behaviors could produce either a winner and a loser or even a lose-lose outcome where both parties could be declared losers.
In your paper,
Describe a drug-related scandal involving an athlete that occurred either at one of the Winter Olympics or one that occurred at one of the summer Olympics.
Supporting documentation is required.
Describe how conflict management using win-win negotiation could be useful in the situation
(as described in the “Win-Win Negotiation” section of Chapter 5).
Describe how conflict management using distributive strategies could be useful in the situation
(as described in the section “Negotiation Strategies” of Chapter 5).
Describe how conflict management using integrative strategies could be useful in the situation
(as described in the section “Negotiation Strategies” of Chapter 5).
Argue whether the parties should use win-win, distributive, or integrative strategies to produce the best available outcome if the athlete is believed to be guilty
(as listed in Chapter 5).
Examine which strategies or tactics should and should not be used by the athletes, the coaches of the athletes, the national governments of the athletes, and the International Olympic Committee.
Argue which behaviors should and should not be used by the athletes, the coaches of the athletes, the national governments of the athletes and the International Olympic Committee in order to gain the upper hand in the conflict
(as listed in Chapter 6 [anger, aggression or bullying]
Determine whether the approaches that you selected also maintain the integrity of the Olympic games.
The Destructive and Restorative Conflict Behaviors paper
must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA Style
must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
must use, in addition to the required course textbook, at least three credible sources, including at least two Forbes.com articles. This means that the paper must include a minimum of four credible sources.
must document any information used from sources in APA Style
must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style
REQUIRED COURSE TEXT –
Jandt, F. E. (2021). Conflict and communication (2nd ed.). Cognella.
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, Review Chapter 5: Negotiation Skills
April 23, 2024