Two co-workers are disagreeing over who is responsible for planning a corporate event. To solve the conflict, the manager steps in and reiterates each of their role in the company, thus giving the responsibility to one employee over another. What type of conflict management technique is this?

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Two co-workers are disagreeing over who is responsible for planning a corporate event. To solve the conflict, the manager steps in and reiterates each of their role in the company, thus giving the responsibility to one employee over another. What type of conflict management technique is this? 

 

  1. Compromise

 

  1. Altering the human variable 

 

  1. Smoothing 

 

  1. Authoritative 
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