What are the important characteristics of the open manager? When are these characteristics considered desirable in an organization?
What are some suggestions for improving your chances of successfully communicating with the closed manager in an organization?
Give three characteristics of blind communicators at their “best,†and three characteristics of blind communicators at their “worst.†Discuss the reciprocal quality of interpersonal relationships and its potential effect on an organization. Include examples to illustrate your answer.
Why does your text classify compromise, arbitration, smoothing, and withdrawal as examples of the "lose-lose" strategy?
Suppose you are the leader of a task force. Suppose further that all your efforts to get the group to reach a decision using the problem-solving method of handling conflict has failed; the group is at a stalemate. You are considering yielding to compromise. According to your text, there is one more procedure you can try before attempting a compromise. What is this procedure? Explain and give an example to clarify your answer