Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

In this module, you have the opportunity to assess your own personal conflict style. You also will consider the situations in which the style might be helpful, and when it might be less than optimal—or even dysfunctional. Begin by logging on to the Leadership Center website and completing the Conflict-Management Style Survey. Be sure to read the accompanying material that follows the survey.
The Leadership Center at Washington State University. (n.d.) Conflict-Management Style. https://www.afc-ispi.org/Repository/Conflict-Management%20survey.pdf
(Note that you need to have Acrobat Reader to be able to “read” this document. Acrobat Reader is available for free download from www.Adobe.com.)

Remember to follow Trident’s guidelines for master’s-level writing, The Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper.

Assignment

Compose a 2- to 3-page essay that addresses the following questions:

What is your primary conflict management style? Explain. In what types of conflict is your primary style likely to be appropriate? In what types of conflict situations is it likely to be dysfunctional?
What is your least preferred style? What types of conflict situations are best handled by your least preferred style?
What steps can you take to increase your use of your least preferred style in situations where it would be most beneficial, and decrease the use of the preferred style when it is likely to be dysfunctional?
Based on your results, explain how you could improve your conflict management behaviors and under what conditions.
Based on your results, explain how improving your conflict management behaviors might translate into actual behaviors at the workplace, and what might be the results of such an improvement.
Include the actual Conflict-Management Style Survey results in an Appendix section of your paper.