Week 14 # 2

Collaborative in the book is ideal conflict resolution strategy for any group is of win-win or consensus (pg.232). What this means to me is that everybody has equal membership to the groups decisions and nobody in the group is better than another. One example I used collaborative conflict resolution is in a group environment. Generally speaking when groups have projects every group member all have the same mentality and same mind set of getting a good grade on assignments. However, when putting ideas out we have disagreements towards them, yet this is still a part of the collaboration because it’s focusing on the main objective at hand, which is the final results. Collaboration can involve strong disagreements, but they focus on the problem-solving issues not personalities or positions (McNary, 2003) Nevertheless, we tend to use this tool in our group projects or even group activities to obtain the main goal together. However, with the competitive conflict it has a win-lose orientation. It is marked by itself, rather than mutual interest, and by an assumption of limited resources and limited possibilities for gain. (pg. 235) For example, big sports fanatics will be a part of the competitive conflict especially if they have a favorite team or player they like. Additionally, people do not have the same feeling and mentality about certain teams or players. Generally speaking, we tend to argue stats, wins-loses, and even career sometime. However, as long as the conflict doesn’t arise on a personal level then this competition is fun. Nevertheless, I have to say competitive conflict is always interesting to me and satisfying because if you try to down play my team I’ll have to tell you a little about my team and then you understand why my team is the best.