Post8-Course-Organizational Theory- Topic Is- Confrontation and Decision Making

Task1-

Question: Module 8Discussion Forum

Discuss confrontation and negotiation.

Follow below rules to complete the assignment.

Within each module, there is a list of key terms. Each student will select one of the key terms and conduct a search of Campbellsville University’s online Library resources to find 1 recent peer reviewed article (within the past 3 years) that closely relate to the concept. Your submission must include the following information in the following format: 

DEFINITION: a brief definition of the key term followed by the APA reference for the term; this does not count in the word requirement. 

SUMMARY: Summarize the article in your own words- this should be in the 150-200-word range. Be sure to note the article's author, note their credentials and why we should put any weight behind his/her opinions, research or findings regarding the key term.

DISCUSSION: Using 300-350 words, write a brief discussion, in your own words of how the article relates to the selected chapter Key Term. A discussion is not rehashing what was already stated in the article, but the opportunity for you to add value by sharing your experiences, thoughts and opinions. This is the most important part of the assignment. 

REFERENCES: All references must be listed at the bottom of the submission--in APA format. (continued) Be sure to use the headers in your submission to ensure that all aspects of the assignment are completed as required. 

Any form of plagiarism, including cutting and pasting, will result in zero points for the entire assignment.

Material:

Supplemental Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHn_kKI7OgA&feature=emb_logo

Reading Assignment

· Read MODELS OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING

· Read Intergroup conflict and intergroup effectiveness in organizations: Theory and scale development

· Read The Advantages of Horizontal Organizational Structure

Task2:

Please provide comments/replies for below two discussions. Each comment/reply should be 150 words.

Classmate disc1:

by Sasikanth Ratakonda - Thursday, 23 April 2020, 7:30 AM

 

Confrontation: A Confrontation can incorporate veritable brutality, or just a contention of words. A showdown normally alludes to a military ordeal including limiting military. This importance ended up popular after the Cuban rocket emergencies in 1963. Preceding that, showdown was used to connote passing on two confining gatherings up close and personal and it is gotten from the Latin word "confrontationem". 

Negotiation: Negotiation is the path toward talking about something with someone in order to accomplish a concurrence with them, or the dialogs themselves. 

All we have had so far is showdown. It is the possibility of encounter that, as because of a gladiatorial fight, it radiates an impression of being feeble of objectives just by the last triumph of one side, identifying with the last thrashing of the other. It has the kind of an impasse, one in which any expansion on one side is a mishap on the other, any incident on one side an expansion on the other. In itself, it shows up not to be vulnerable of any settlement that, since it benefits the opposite sides, is satisfactory to both. 

In any case if and when exchange seeks after encounter, it must be founded on finding shared conviction. What does not turn out clearly, in the present period of encounter, is that the mutual assessment is possibly monstrous, that the United States and the Soviet Union have, with the straggling leftovers of the world, a run of the mill eagerness for the settlement of their incongruities that very transcends their limited points of interest. It is in the powerful thought of this normal interest that all expectation lies. 

The fundamental essential interest is in the avoidance of an atomic war- - for we ought to expect that such a war would spell an extraordinary obliteration for the opposite sides, to make certain for advancement itself. Second just to this, there is the essential excitement for reducing the great and money related load of the unfathomable weapons on the opposite sides, a weight helpless of ludicrous abatement if understanding could be come to on the base necessities of the regular debilitation fundamental to the upkeep of the equality of force. 

Showdown, passed on unreasonably far by either side, would bargain these ordinary interests. In case one side should drive the other past center of beyond what many would consider possible, it might thusly detonate the war in which it would itself be eaten up. To take an uncommon model, if Moscow should develop a position of solidarity over Central America, and should then move to mount a nuclear weapon there, the natural reaction of the American nation might be with the ultimate objective that it would lose its prudence, the result being the nuclear obliteration of the Soviet Union. 

Correspondingly, if the United States should win by interruption in secluding the Ukraine from the Soviet Union, this "accomplishment" may, by making Moscow tense, lead to the nuclear incineration of the United States. Along these lines, paying little heed to whether the Soviet Union had the strategies for mounting a nuclear battle equipment in Central America, or if the United States could subvert the Ukraine, its own one of a kind favorable position would be against doing in that capacity. 

The circumstance being what it is, a conclusive focus of game plan on either side must be confined. There is an old standard of system, that one must be watchful with pushing one's opponent against a shut passage. 

Finally, it is simply founded on such a clearly confined procedure, that the United States can hold the dedication of its accomplices.

References :

Cornell, P., & Fahlander, F. (2007). Encounters, Materialities, Confrontations : Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from http://0search.ebscohost.com.library.acaweb.org/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,cpid,url&custid=s4338230&db=nlebk&AN=553312

Mackillop, A. (2011). Confrontation, Negotiation and Accommodation: Garrisoning theBurghs in Post-Union Scotland. Journal of Early Modern History, 15(1/2), 159–183. https://doi.org/10.1163/157006511X552877

Classmate disc2:

 

by Ulplaksh Vashisht - Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 2:48 PM

 

Confrontation:

All the individuals in the organization take a quick analysis of their health to set an activity plan in a short time for the improvement of the organization is called a confrontation meeting. The purpose of making confrontation meeting in any organization is to improve the communication between the employees, it also promotes good work culture in the organization, all the problems in the organization can be dealt easily, the relationship between team members is also improved. The six elements on which the confrontation depends on is

a.       Climate setting

b.      Information collection

c.       Information sharing

d.      Priority setting and planning among groups

e.       Immediate action by teams in the organization

f.       Make a review report on organizational progress

In the climate setting, all the employees in the organization and the top executive will discuss the problems they are facing. Teams are formed to collect the information that is required to deal with the problem. The information collected by each individual will be shared among all the teams. Depending on the type of problem, data they have collected the team members are given the list of solutions. After providing the required solutions they must follow the plan immediately and results should be submitted to the management group in a few days. For every regular interval of time, the top management in the organization should review the progress. (Mangrove. (2017))

Negotiation:

To deal with organizational conflicts most companies choose negotiation. Negotiation is an open discussion that helps different parties to find a solution for the conflict. In this process, two or more different parties agree to exchange their goals and services. If you consider negotiation in an organization we can find negotiation behavior is seen between the two teams or two people. To solve problems in the negotiation and find a solution a neutral third party analyzes both the arguments and finally comes out with one solution. It is necessary that you need to make motivational approaches in the organization to aspire to the goals of the negotiators. (Jerry. (2018))

There are two types of approaches to negotiation strategies. They are namely the distributive approach and integrative approach. The distributive approach is also called a fixed pie approach because in this approach the solution is considered as a pie and distributed between two different parties. This approach is not effective in making a creative solution. An integrative approach is also called a win-win approach because in this approach both parties concentrate on the goals of each party and try to integrate. It will give very creative solutions.

 

References

Jerry. (2018, August 12). Organizational Behaviour and Design: conflict and negotiation. Retrieved from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-organizationalbehavior/chapter/negotiation/

Mangrove. (2017, August 23). Team Building, Organization Confrontation Meeting. Retrieved from https://theintactone.com/2018/05/03/od-u3-topic-2-team-building-organization-confrontation-meeting/