The Five Types Of Conflict And Interpersonal Communication

Throughout the semester, we have been introduced to many topics related to interpersonal communication. I have come to believe that these concepts have allowed me to better understand interactions that occur in our daily lives. My knowledge of these concepts was challenged when asked to relate these notions to a movie. During the time that I was watching the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I realized myself grasping onto what was going on and being able to relate certain scenes and situations to topics I had previously learned about. Interactions in My Big Fat Greek Wedding display concepts of conflict and politeness theory, which can be pointed out in a few specific scenes.

If a conflict is avoided, things can go much smoother and there will be no arguments. For example one time, I got in trouble with my mom for staying out later than I should have. I stayed there with her for over half an hour and argued with her about why I stayed late. At the end of the whole argument, my phone was taken up and I remained grounded from going out for two weeks. If I had just avoided the conflict of arguing with her, then I probably could have gotten off easy with a conversation of not staying out late. By arguing and making conflict, I earned more trouble for myself and dug a deep hole that I couldn't climb out of.

As Eilerman (2006) explains, “a person knows there is a conflict but decides not to deal with it by ignoring, sidestepping, being non-committal or withdrawing from the issue or interaction. It puts parties in a lose/lose relationship where a choice is made not to address the feelings, views or goals of either party” (para. 1). In reality, though, the person may truly value the relationship but is simply avoiding the conflict because they might fear that engaging in an argument or dispute will end in harm to the relationship; so instead, the person simply avoids the confrontation altogether as to not risk any damage to the relationship. On the other hand, “avoidance and lack of overt conflict may indicate that the participants are unable to reach an agreement and that they will gradually drift apart” (Hocker & Wilmot, 2014, p. 150). Still, while most situations of conflict aren’t comfortable, all avoidance does it prolong the

     Avoiding or withdrawing from a conflict requires no courage or consideration for the other party. By avoiding the conflict, you essentially pretend that it never happened or doesn’t exist. Some examples of avoidance or withdrawal include pretending there is nothing wrong, stonewalling or completely shutting down.

These pages are about resolving conflict and they have a few strategies, but they list avoiding as a short term fix. The articles say “You avoid mostly as a short term strategy, recognizing that conflict will not go away.” Sometimes, people can’t understand the situation, and this is what the article says, “Avoiding is a helpful response to conflict when you are too upset to deal with the situation rationally.” Avoiding also means that you don’t particularly care, “To avoid is to decide that the relationship, nor achieving your goals is

In my opinion, the behaviors that correlated with resolving conflict are not present in scenarios 1, 2 and 3. However, following behaviors are essential to resolving the above conflicts: ccommunication, encouragement, goal sitting, compromise, forgiveness, compassion, and empathy, finding common ground, and being an active listener without these components managing conflict could be

One of my dominant conflict handling styles was the avoiding style. This means that I avoid conflict rather than address the problem at hand, in addition to downplaying the severity of the problem all together. I had problems with my roommate freshman year, and we did not get along very well. There were several instances where his choices affected my living situation, and I did not feel comfortable being in the room. Instead of communicating these concerns to him, I just suppressed them and vented to my friends and family about the problem. I usually just got over the problem and we ended up cohabitating and leaving on good terms at the end of the year.

Conflict management are types of strategies to help people through arguments with anyone. This has affected my life by helping me getting through arguments with my friends, family or really anyone who I come in conflict with. The one technique, AMPP, has helped me a lot because sometimes me and my friends argue and they do not tell me what I did wrong, so I use that technique to help us resolve our problem.

I would say that my conflict style is a combination of compromising and collaborating. I’m a huge believer in the ability of compromise to defuse most hostile conflicts. It’s true that there are two sides to every argument; however, people often forget that there can be two sides to every solution as well. In many of the conflicts that I’ve witnessed or been involved in, the level of hostility escalates because neither participant is willing to honestly and equally here the others point of view. Since I’m often the mediator in these situations, it provides me with the opportunity to examine the problem objectively without investing in emotionally. By keeping an emotional distance, I can usually come up with a solution that is beneficial and

My conflict management style is best characterized as avoiding. It is best described as not paying attention to the conflict or pretending it does not exist. People who use the avoiding strategy generally keep quiet during a disagreement as they view speaking up as not worthwhile and believe little will result from it.

There are three advantages of obliging conflict style. The first advantage is obliging to a senior or seasoned person can be a way of managing conflict betting on the most experienced person’s judgment. The second advantage is if an issue is important to one person and not important to the other, the latter can give a little to gain a lot, and finally, the third advantage is when one finds that he/she is wrong, it can best accommodate the other to demonstrate reasonableness. The three disadvantages of obliging conflict style are obligating can further one person’s lack of power, people can one-up others by showing how eminently reasonable they are and, can foster an undertone of competitiveness if people develop a pattern of showing each other hoe nice they can

For this observation paper a classmate and I went to watch a court case in Sanford Florida. The observation that I made is centered on conflict management and resolution. The offense that the defendant was accused of was trespassing. The behaviors of the defendant, the witness, lawyers, and members of the jury were all written down and analyzed. The events that unfolded in the courtroom were also taken into consideration when analyzing the information. Verbal and non-verbal styles were identified and correlated to the outcome of the case. Different conflict resolution styles that were used by the completing sides exposed different lessons that helped me further understand the different aspects of the case.

In other circumstances, I do see avoiding being one of my main conflict styles. In my personal relationships, for example, I do tend to be more avoiding. I do this for a number of reasons. One reason is I like to take time to think through a conflict before immediately addressing it. I sometimes have a difficult time expressing my feelings or understanding how I am feeling at a moment, so when I am dealing with a situation, I may not know how to address the situation before I had a chance to think it through. Another reason, is again, I want

As a conflict analysis and resolution major, I took this class because I wanted to learn why interpersonal communication is such a key component of every conflict. Although conflicts are placed into levels—international, community/organization, and interpersonal—all of the conflicts are ultimately between two parties with grievances. This class has not only taught me about interpersonal theories, but it also offered a great amount of self-reflection. After reviewing all of the topics we covered, I will reflect on the theories related to forming relationships, maintaining relationships, relational uncertainty in my own life.

Conflict is very common when we communicate with others in our daily life. No matter in family or work, there is always interpersonal conflict when we building relationships with other. Therefore, it is important to learn how to manage conflicts. In this report, I would like to study about my experience, which is a conflict happened between me and staffs in Thailand, by applying concepts and knowledge I learnt. This kind of interpersonal conflict between customers and workers is common nowadays.