Using Conflict in Organizations - Softcover

Carsten De Dreu; Evert Van De Vliert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761950915 ISBN 13: 9780761950912

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Challenging the common belief that conflict in groups and organizations should be prevented or resolved to maintain or enhance performance, Using Conflict in Organizations offers an alternative perspective by presenting the increasing knowledge on how conflict can enhance individual achievement, the quality of group decision-making and productivity in organizations.

Part One provides a general framework which links conflict management to performance and shows how this relationship can be understood. The second and third parts develop and illustrate this framework in a series of thematic chapters. Part Two focuses on performance following intragroup conflict, covering topical areas such as dissent, groupthink and strategic decision-making. Part Three deals with the performance-enhancing effect of intergroup conflict and competition, and addresses contemporary issues such as intergroup competition, collective negotiation and diversity management. The final section focuses on applications and intervention strategies that can stimulate conflict in ways that improve performance in groups and organizations.

About this title

About the Author

Carsten K W de Dreu is Associate Professor of Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. He has published various articles in international journals on the subject of minority influence, negotiation, and conflict escalaton.

Evert van de Vliert is Professor of Organizational and Applied Social Psychology at the University of Groningen, Research Director of the Kurt Lewin Institute in Amsterdam and President of the International Association for Conflict Management. He has published numerous articles and several books on the subject of conflict, including Role Transitions: Exploration and Explanations (1984) and has a title forthcoming Theoretical Frontiers of Complex Interpersonal Conflict Behaviour.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Gary A. Bornstein, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Nanne K. de Vries University of Amsterdam

Ido Erev Technion -Haifa

Martin C Euwema, University of Utrecht

Onne Janssen University of Groningen

Aukje Nauta University of Groningen

Dean Tjosvold Lingham College Hong Kong

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761950915
• ISBN 13: 9780761950912
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240