Resolution Mediation

Do not avoid the conflict, hoping it will go away. Trust me. It won’t. Even if the conflict appears to have been superficially put to rest, it will rear its ugly head whenever stress increases or a new disagreement occurs. An unresolved conflict or interpersonal disagreement festers just under the surface in your work environment. [...]

During tough times, school district spending thousands on playgound police The closest I got to throwing down in a playground fight was in the fifth grade. Long time ago, but the nightmares persist. In the other corner was this husky kid named David, which by default would’ve made me Goliath. Talk about poor casting. His [...]

‘Sri Lankans’ approval of their President’s job performance likely reflects their happiness to finally have peace in their country and a vision for the rebuilding of their nation. The government’s lifting of Emergency laws has earned praise from the US and other Western nations and suggests Sri Lanka is trying to leave its violent past [...]

THERE is some good among the bad economic news South Africans have been inundated with lately: no local debt crisis, no sub-prime collapse, a world-class, stable banking system and a government budget process that is transparent. However, most of our major trading partners are still suffering from the fallout from the economic downturn and the [...]

In an employment relationship, a dispute is any disagreement or conflict between employees and their employer over issues such as discipline in the workplace, management style, wages, dismissals and other grievances which employees may have over their working conditions. Broadly speaking, labour disputes are of two types namely disputes of right and disputes of interest. [...]

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” would make for a fairly pathetic sea of humanity in the workplace — if such a practice was followed in our culture. The workplace would be nothing but blind employees and toothless individuals if we could never learn to forgive one another. Everyone has a [...]

Are you interested in what a Human Resources generalist, manager, or director does? Depending on the size of the organization, these HR jobs may have overlapping responsibilities. In larger organizations, the Human Resources generalist, the manager, and the director have clearly defined, separated roles in HR management with progressively more authority and responsibility in the [...]

No one likes to address workplace conflicts–not the employees who get embroiled in them and especially not the employees’ managers, who pretend they don’t exist. After all, conflict is messy, often political, and requires confrontation–an activity most people aim to avoid. But the longer workplace conflicts fester, the bigger they grow and the more stress [...]

In January this year, the UK Government announced details of a consultation on workplace disputes, directly aimed at achieving earlier resolution of conflict for all parties involved. The Government is considering how organisations can make more use of dispute resolution tools such as mediation and is seeking further information on its use, costs, benefits and [...]

Smyrna-based Conflict Resolution Academy seeks to provide conflict resolution skills to every member of the U.S. Armed Forces. The goal seems insurmountable: to provide every member of every branch of America’s armed forces with conflict resolution skills, but the dedicated team at Conflict Resolution Academy in Smyrna is committed to make it happen through their [...]