Social music listening is a prevalent and often fruitful experience. Social jukeboxes are systems that enable social music listening with listeners collaboratively choosing the music to be played. Naturally, because music tastes are diverse, using social jukeboxes often involves conflicting interests. Because of that, virtually all social jukeboxes incorporate conflict management mechanisms. In...

Nurse managers work in environments in which conflict is likely to arise due to both the nature of their work and the need to interact with a wide range of individuals. Although the management of conflict has been studied previously, no research has examined the conflict management styles of nurse managers in Oman or any other Arab country. The present study sought to address this issue by exam...

AIMS To identify conflict mode choices of head nurses in general hospitals and examine the relationship between leadership style, choice of strategy in handling conflicts and demographic characteristics. BACKGROUND Nurse managers deal with conflicts daily. The choice of conflict management mode is associated with managerial effectiveness. The ability to creatively manage conflict situations, ...

Human coexistence is marked by conflicts, of the most diverse types, since dawn humanity. In business environment it no different, because there are also conflicts. At organizational level, managers, in addition to challenges leading and teams, directing them obtain positive results, have face controversies that arise labor relations, both internally externally, being necessary, cases, resort j...

The purpose of study was comparison of conflict management strategies of physical education office managers based on their some demographic characteristics. All of managers of physical education office of Mazandaran (n = 15) and Guilan (n = 16) province and their assistant [(n = 15) and (n =16) respectively] response to Putnam and Wilson’s “organizational communication conflict instrument (OCCI...

Early recognition is fundamental to managing conflict. Successful leaders rely upon their ability to recognize conflict before it escalates into crisis. This article reviews the signs and sources of conflict along with related management theories. Conflict management includes understanding the sources and types of conflict as well as the impact potential; in the case presented, the leaders were...