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Assignment 2: Dropbox Assignment
Conflict Handling Style
This assignment will help you understand conflict at the individual, team and organizational levels.
Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research and identify additional information on handling conflict.
Based on your research and understanding, create a paper in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document that:
- Includes a description of change theories, conflict theories, and leader as a change agent.
- Integrates how your ability to handle conflict can either enhance or hinder effective leadership in the health care environment.
Support your responses with examples.
On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.
- Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.
- This handout will provide you the details of formatting your essay using APA style.
- You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.
Submission Details
Name your document SU_NSG4029_W3_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
Submit your document to the W3 Assignment 2 Dropbox by Saturday, July 15, 2017.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: CONFLICT THEORY
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Conflict Theory
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CONFLICT THEORY
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Conflict
Introduction
The term conflict refers to some kind of disagreement or friction that emanates within a
group of people due to differences in personal opinions. There are five major beliefs that propel
groups towards conflicts. Individual superiority has a significant role in escalating conflicts
within a group. In the event that a person develops a negative sense of superiority towards others,
issues will automatically emanate in society (Coser, 1964). Mistreatment of people (injustices)
compels victims to resort to retaliatory acts with the intention of seeking justice. Vulnerability is
another concrete contribution to occurrence of conflicts in society.
Any individual or a group which believes to be living in compromised situations will
resort to conflicting deeds in order to attain economic and social stability. Distrust is a
psychological point of perceiving other people in a malicious way. Distrust causes conflicts by
humiliating, hurting, abusing and cheating others; with the sole purpose of achieving personal
material gains at the expense of other community members (Eidelson & Eidelson, 2003).
Evidently, the state of being helpless provokes people to engage in conflicting a...