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BUS-650
Special Topics Class
Spring 2009: Conflict Management
Meeting Dates:
Weekend 1, January
23-24; Weekend 2, February 20-21; Weekend 3, March 20-21
Meeting Times: Fridays 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.; Saturdays 8:30 a.m. -
4:30 p.m.
Effective conflict
management and relationship strategies apply to a variety of situations;
including the workplace, workgroups, organizations, families, friends, and
relationships.
This course addresses
conflict situations and provides a foundation and understanding for managing
relationships and conflict. Discussions include the motivators of conflict
and management techniques. Specific topics of study include; the nature of
conflict, the structure and balance of power, personal goals and issues,
styles and tactics used in conflict, how to assess and negotiate in
conflict, moderating conflict, and preventing destructive conflict.
Students will complete the
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument to better understand their own
personal conflict preferences. Students will also complete the Myers-Briggs
Personality Type Indicator and will apply personality type to a variety of
conflict and communications settings.
Remember, this course is definitely "hands-on." There will be open forum
discussions, critiquing, and opining.
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Instructions
Because bus-650 meets for only 3 weekends,
the first weekend must be productive in order to cover the required
materials. Please read the syllabus.
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professor if you did not receive the passwords in class.
Please review your
grades often, grade errors must be
reported within the syllabus time limit.
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Notes & Updates
Welcome to class!
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Remember:
"It is unwise to pay too
much, but it is worse to pay to little. When you pay too much, you lose
a little money--that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose
everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the
thing it was bought to do. The common law o business balance prohibits
paying a little and getting a lot--it can't be done. If you deal with
the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run. And
if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better."
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Materials
Textbook Information:
Online textbook
ordering
Textbook:
Wilmot & Hocker (2007).
Interpersonal Conflict (7 ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill Companies.
ISBN: 0-07-313554-2
Supplemental Materials Package available
from Harding Bookstore (Required for course)
Other Materials:
Bus-650 Course Syllabus
Course
Final
Project
Abridged Conflict
Assessment Guide
Student
Introduction Form
Homework Grading Guidelines
Handouts & Articles:
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