Strategy to Reduce Organizational Conflict
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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 (Campbel
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If, through this research, it can be demonstrated that application of the assessment center concept to the organizational performance evaluation function can both satisfy the demands of human resource evaluation, and reduce the potential for the development of organizational conflict, an effective new tool and tactic will be validated for the organizational manager. The implications of support for the research hypothesis are for both greater effeciency and greater harmony in organizational life.
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Definition of Terms
The only term which requires special definition is assessment center. An assessment center is an organizational program in which an individual may be exposed to simulation problems which mirror the functions and related potential problems of (1) the individual's existing organizational position, (2) a higher level position for which the individual is being considered, or for which the individual has applied, or (3) an organizational position which is unrelated to the individual's present organizational duties (Petry, 1984). Based upon an individual's responses to the simulations, both performance and potential performance may be assessed (Moses, 1987).
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