Conflict Resolution to Project Success

This article examines five strategies for solving common disagreements: confronting, dominating, compromising, accommodating, and avoiding. Pay attention to the literature review.

Abstract

Conflict resolution is a key issue to manage when dealing with diverse stakeholders. By analysing in depth the most relevant and implicit aspects of the construct "conflict", this study focuses on examining how the five main strategies in solving common disagreements are adopted by considering different conflict sources. Hypotheses are tested using data collected from both the academic and business world. Perceptions of project managers and team members allows the authors not only to find significant differences by role played or type of organization, but to narrow the design of future approaches to investigate the relation between conflict and project performance. More specifically, the research indicates that project managers adopt confronting and compromising styles in most cases as first options, highlighting the influence of responsibility degree factor in how issues are undertaken within a project team.

Keywords: Conflict management strategies; stakeholders; conflict sources and project management

Source: Tomás C. Prieto-Remóna, Jose Ramón Cobo-Benitab, Isabel Ortiz-Marcosa, and Angel Uruburua, https://learn.saylor.org/pluginfile.php/5749328/mod_book/chapter/58457/BUS402-3.5-ConflictResolutiontoProjectPerformance-CCBYNCND.pdf
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