Required readings
- Read Textbook Chapter 12 Managing Workplace Conflict
- Read Textbook Chapter 13 Managing Social Conflict
Answer each question individually, making connections and references to the textbook chapters.
1. Describe diversity-based conflict.
2. Please write as though writing a letter to a friend. Explain your worldview and how you believe your friend’s worldview to be. Identify some of the issues that you are likely to be in disagreement about. How can you and your friend create a space for disagreement within the friendship without simply walking around the topics all the time?
3. Please write an as though writing a letter to a friend. Explain an intractable issue you have experienced or observed and the steps that you took to try to resolve it. Demonstrate your understanding of the concepts in this chapter by advising your friend on how she/he might approachher/his own conflicts.
4. Describe work-life conflict.