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CONFLICT 5

Conflict
Michael Whitener
CONFLICT 1

1. Briefly summarize your dispute as you perceive it, placing events in chronological order. Include what you have done to resolve the dispute. 
A young woman, Laura, was hired as a copy editor for one of the many journals produced by the company. Seven other employees worked on this team editing this Journal, including a senior editor named Tim. Laura had worked there for about a month when she and her co-workers went for a happy-hour after work. Everybody had a great time and had consumed a fair amount of alcohol. When everybody left the bar to head home, Tim, who had been secretly attracted to Laura since she started work at the Journal, hailed a cab and offered to share the ride with Laura. Laura accepted the offer. Once she was inside the cab, Tim then suddenly made an aggressive sexual advance toward her. Horrified, Laura pushed him away and told him to get out of the cab. Mortified, Tim slinked out of the cab. The next day, Laura came to work with some apprehension. How would she deal with Tim? Would the cab incident affect her job? Although Tim did not supervise her, would he try to get her fired? Since this day, Tim and Laura have all been showing aggressive behavior at work. Laura does not want to work with Tim.
On the other hand, Tim has constantly mistreated Laura since he is afraid that Laura might open up to her fellow employees or even superiors which would get him fired. The two have been continuously arguing, and they rarely want to see each other in the office. However, most office people do not know why there is a conflict between the two since they did not witness the incident (Luria, 1932).
2. Have you been striving earnestly to resolve this dispute or giving only partial efforts to reconcile?
I have put all my efforts into trying to resolve the conflict between this two. This is because, since their conflict began, the two employees’ work productivity has been very low, and, in most cases, their duties even end up not being well performed. For this reason, it was essential to find a solution that will resolve the conflict as much as possible to avoid further deterioration in employee performance.
3. What questions, doubts, or fears do you have because of this dispute?
The question that I have in this dispute is what happened between the two employees, and the doubt I have is that both of them will be able to work in the same team even after resolving the conflict. The one fear that I have is that if the case is not solved as soon as possible, one of the employees might resign from their job.
4. Have you been looking at this dispute as something that happened by chance, as something done to you by someone else, or as something that God allowed in your life for a specific purpose?
In my perspective, the conflict just happened by chance. This is because if the bar’s meeting had not taken place, there would be no conflict to resolve. The conflict was not helping, and for this reason, I would not classify it as God sent. Maybe the only way to identify if it was God sent would be later after the conflict had been resolved.
5. Using what you currently know about conflict resolution, which response to the conflict have you been using to resolve the dispute?
There are various ways through which a conflict can be solved, and one of them is arbitration. In the simplest terms, possible arbitration can be defined as the private process where parties in dispute will agree a third party helps them come to a solution for their conflict. This is the most effective method to use in this case (Sadat-Akhavi, 2003). 

References

Luria, A. R. (1932). The nature of human conflicts.
Sadat-Akhavi, A. (2003). Methods of resolving conflicts between treaties (Vol. 3). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.