Conflict Management for Managers: Resolving Workplace, Client, and Policy Disputes - Softcover

Raines, Susan S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1538119935 ISBN 13: 9781538119938

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

Synopsis

Conflict Management for Managers: Resolving Workplace, Client, and Policy Disputes provides current and future organizational leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent and manage every common source of conflict faced at work. Great managers and leaders understand they must communicate effectively, lead diverse teams, provide effective feedback, meet customer expectations, attend to organizational culture, and proactively manage relationships with vendors and regulators. This text provides skill-building exercises to help you lead effective meetings, build strong teams, conduct performance appraisals that motivate team members, coach employees and other managers through difficult times, and craft a positive brand image for both your organization and your own career. The text is divided into three sections: Conflict Management & Collaboration basics, including assessments designed to rate your current skills and set goals for growth; Strategies for preventing conflicts inside your work teams and organizations, including tips for giving feedback, motivating team members, and creating positive organizational cultures; and Processes and skills for enhancing relationships with external stakeholders such as customers, vendors, and regulators. Thoroughly updated, this new edition incorporates a greater number of skill-building exercises, discussion questions, and goal-setting suggestions to allow for the active transition of these skills from the printed page into your daily work life.

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Review

Dr. Raines' chapter on Intercultural Communication really changed my perspective on managing conflict in a highly diverse workplace. The chapter taught me to look at decisions being made in the organization more objectively. Once you understand how certain countries discuss and perceive information, you can truly see their perspective more clearly and become more productive.--Ashley Harris, Culture Change Agent, Volkswagen

There is always that small chance when writing a follow up to a wildly successful book that it won't live up to the reception the first edition received. In this case, Raines took a well calculated risk and managed to far exceed the highest of expectations. This second edition stands on its own as a major contribution to the field. Raines continues to provide one of the clearest and practical presentations of conflict management methods, models, tools, frameworks and practical intervention advice. All three sections have been reworked to include new timely material as well as more information on areas of practical applications that will resonate with managers, practitioners, professors and trainers.--Brian Polkinghorn, Distinguished Professor, Bosserman Center for Conflict Resolution, Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution, Salisbury University

About the Author

Dr. Susan S. Raines is Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Raines is the Editor-in-Chief of Conflict Resolution Quarterly, the author of more than 45 peer reviewed articles and two books, and a Graduate Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. She has mediated more than 15,000 cases inside and outside of the court system and served as a conflict management consultant to organizations across the globe. Her work focuses on ways in which organizations can reduce internal conflict (e.g. with employees) and external conflict (with customers, vendors and regulators) while maximizing mission achievement through the design of appropriate corporate cultures and systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1538119935
• ISBN 13: 9781538119938
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432