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Strategy to Reduce Organizational Conflict

Some 20 odd years ago, Paul Lawrence (1969, 4), at the Harvard Business School, said that one of the most "baffling and recalcitrant of the problems which . . . executives face is employee resistance to change." Resistance to change is a form of organizational conflict. In the late1950s, James March and Herbert Simon (1958), in their classic, Organizations, identified two major types of organizational conflict. The first type involved decisionrelated problems, in which the conflict was primarily within individuals, while the second type was related to the different choices made by different individuals and was, thus, conflict between individuals.

Many instances of organizational conflict involve elements of each of the conflict types. One such instance is the selection of individuals for inclusion into an organization's management development programs. The proposed research study will examine one strategy designed to reduce the level of organizational conflict associated with the selection of individuals to be included in an organizational management development program.

Although there exists wide disagreement among theoreticians, analysts, and managers as to the precise definition of leadership in an organizational context, there exists a unanimity of opinion as to the significance of the quality of organizational leadership to both the continuity and the effectiveness of organizations (Campbell, Dunnette, Lawler, and Weick, 1989). How best to develop new organizational leaders, and how best to select those individuals to be developed are the subjects of additional areas of disagreement within organizations.

The disagreement as to how best to develop excellent leaders within organizations is as great as that pertaining to the precise definition of leadership (Schmitt, Gooding, Noe, and Kirsch, 1984). Once again, however, there exists a unanimity of opinion on one crucial point: the quality of the leaders ...

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