Conflict is a stubborn fact of organizational life. Although conflict is a familiar part of our
experience in organizations, its value and centrality to organizational theory and functioning …

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the analysis of organizational conflict that I
presented in my 1967 ASQ paper,'Organizational conflict: Concepts and models'. My 1967 …

It has been almost 20 years since I wrote the first draft of the chapter on'Conflict and conflict
management'for the first edition of The Handbook of Industrial and Organizational …

Conflict that occurs in organizations need not be destructive, provided the energy associated
with conflict is harnessed and directed toward problem solving and organizational …

The mainstream of organizational literature is generally ambiguous in delineating the
concept of conflict. This paper distinguishes conflict from competition in the …

In the years since the last major review of conflict, the primary thrust in the research on
conflict in organizations has shifted the emphasis away from dyadic conflict and toward the …

With relatively few exceptions, social scientists studying organizational phenomena have not
focused their attention on conflicts. Some notable exceptions are the studies of Robert Kahn …

This paper presents a multifaceted qualitative investigation of everyday conflict in six
organizational work teams. Repeated interviews and on-site observations provide data on …

This commentary centers on re‐evaluating past research into the definition and nature of
conflict. It proposes that more thought is required when using the term as it is too broad in its …

Certainly one of the more challenging problems that organizational members face is
handling conflicts with subordinates, supervisors, peers, and clients. Indeed, for employees …