Conflict Management in Organizations: An Analysis of Authoritative Command Approach

Running head: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATION
Managing People and Organisation
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Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................... 2
Obeying the leaders’ command....................................................................................... 2
Communicate its desire to the parties involved................................................................3
Achieving short-term reduced levels of conflict................................................................4
Fails to treat the cause of the conflict...............................................................................5
Conclusions......................................................................................................................6
Reference List.................................................................................................................. 7

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Introduction
Conflict is a process which starts when one party thinks that another party has
negatively influenced something that the first party care about. The traditional concept
of conflict is a belief where management of an organisation thinks that all types of
conflict are harmful and organisation must avoid the conflict. However, as stated by
Rahim (2017), conflict is absolutely necessary for the team to perform efficiently. In the
non-traditional approach of conflict management within an organisation, management
uses an authoritative command which refers to the resolution of organisation conflict by
the third party. Therefore, formal authority takes the resolution to solve the problem by
offering a win or lose outcome to conflict resolution. Formal authority decides within the
organisation which party is right in the conflict and formal authority also solves the
conflict addressing the issues of conflict. The authoritative command is a short-term
approach to solve the workplace conflict and authoritative command can divide the
employees by pressurising the employer to select a winner in a conflict; however, it
does not solve the actual issue of conflict (Annick & Vincent 2018). Within an
organisation, conflict is a common phenomenon and it is unavoidable; authoritative
command can control and minimise the conflict through proper resolution. The thesis
statement of the study is to express a different opinion on seeking resolution of the
conflict between internal staff members through authoritative management style.
Obeying the leaders’ command
The authoritative command is based on mainly formal authority which is vested
with the leaders and the subordinates of the organisation need to obey the commands