{"id":167,"date":"2011-05-18T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:26:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:26:06","slug":"conflict-management-an-organizational-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Conflict Management &#8212; An Organizational Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigstock-Tough-competitive-business-con-58838996-583x388.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-696\" src=\"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigstock-Tough-competitive-business-con-58838996-583x388.jpg\" alt=\"bigstock-Tough-competitive-business-con-58838996-583x388\" width=\"583\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigstock-Tough-competitive-business-con-58838996-583x388.jpg 583w, http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigstock-Tough-competitive-business-con-58838996-583x388-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was asked to write an article on Conflict Resolution within organizations for the American Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s magazine here in the Dominican Republic. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the <a title=\"AMCHAM article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amcham.org.do\/pdf\/revista\/Edicion15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, I&#8217;m on page 15.<\/p>\n<p>A few caveats and observations:<\/p>\n<p>The article is in Spanish. \u00a0If that makes it somewhat difficult to read, bear with me: \u00a0it was difficult to write. \u00a0Writing this article drove home for me how much language limits expression and how communication across language barriers is so much more than a function of translation. \u00a0I&#8217;ll likely blog about this in a future post.<\/p>\n<p>While I was asked to write on Conflict Resolution, you may note I wrote about Conflict Management. \u00a0This because conflict is inevitable and often healthy when properly managed. \u00a0We tend to approach conflict as isolated phenomena, something to be prevented, then avoided, and, if all else fails, resolved. \u00a0I disagree with this assessment, and in the article I attempt to explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, judging by the photo included in the article, it would appear I am not as photogenic as I would like to think I am&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to write an article on Conflict Resolution within organizations for the American Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s magazine here in the Dominican Republic. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the link, I&#8217;m on page 15. A few caveats and observations: The article is in Spanish. \u00a0If that makes it somewhat difficult to read, bear with me: \u00a0it was difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[39,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-practices","8":"category-conflict-management","9":"category-links","10":"tag-conflict-management","11":"tag-conflict-resolution","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephneurauter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}