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WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1-CONFLICT MANGEMENT
UMUC HRMN365 WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1
Instructions: Locate an article describing the resolution of a recent business conflict. This article must be from a newspaper, academic journal, or credible online news source.
Cite the complete and proper APA reference for the article(s).
Use proper APA citations within the text as well as on a References page.
Explain what is meant by “the costs of conflict”?
From the viewpoint of the participants, what were the costs of this specific conflict?
If resolved, what strategies were used in the resolution?
If not resolved, what strategies would you recommend?
In responding, you must cite a minimum of three sources, one of which you identify as your key source for this recent business conflict. The other two sources support your discussion and responses to the assignment requirement
Small family-owned and operated businesses generate over 80 percent of the US gross domestic product (Garkovich et al.,1995). Subsequently, more than 600,000 new businesses are small business. Of the 600,000 new businesses, family owned business make up ninety percent of this figure. Family owned co-entrepreneurship is one of the factors that make them unique. The concept of family and firm is different from conventional or non-family- owned small business but family owned business has very challenging conflicts in contrast to non-family owned businesses. One company in particular, American harness racing industry had to overcome challenges of occupational sex segregation, interpersonal conflict and gender neutral work position struggles.
Harness racing industries early on were mostly male dominated business. The trainers, drivers and racehorse owners were primarily men with the exception of a few independent women workers. As standard-bred horses increased and more race tracks opened over the decades, positions such as trainer, driver and race horse owner became more and more gender neutral. Harness racing family businesses usually started out as co-trainer partnership between married couples and progressed to a co-owner hierarchy. Conflicts are prevalent in husband and wife occupational relationships, the further they succeed the hierarchy the difficult it was to avoid conflicts.
During stages of co-trainer amongst married partners, conflict can become severe, seemingly because of unresolved family or firm disagreements. The attempt to minimize conflict results in working on different task or different places to avoid conflict. Depending on how partnerships are segregated, vertically (same occupation but different stages of the career ladder) or horizontal (different occupations) are factors that led to conflicts as well as occupational sex segregation. American harness racing industries actively has conflicts as a result of occupational sex segregation. Females are giving jobs that aren’t as predominant as their male counterparts and the pay inequalities of martial co-trainers (male vs. female in general) are disparities that cause conflicts. Harness racing industries weren’t considered gender neutral positions decades earlier and that unchanged mindset still causes friction between marital owners today.
Each of the gender neutral positions such as trainer, breeder, driver, and horse race owner are seen as masculine position with wives helping or assisting their husbands as a separate entity. Although, husband and wife are equal partners and owners, the consensus was that males are seen as the decision-maker and sole proprietor by most customers and employees. Often times the harness racing male owner would make important decision without collaborating with his co-partner and this led to turmoil. The concept is typically accepted by males and manifested by those that prefer being the authority figurehead with their spouses in charge of decisions made at home. In some co-owner relationships the spouses would concede to the idea of positional power to avoid conflicts. Adjustments of some spouse’s to the idea of their husbands being the key decision aren’t welcomed. Majority of women were essentially dominant in their home lives which transferred over to business and the perceived power they had over their marital partners. A common ground could be found for those relationships with exceptional interpersonal skills but partners without good interpersonal skillsets struggled with conflict resolution.
Family owned and operated businesses have greater challenges of maintaining great interpersonal relationships. As with, American harness racing industry tumultuous work, social and family home environments are often times the cause conflicts. Disagreements about the direction of the business, financial stability, and depression and family arguments are common occurrences in this family owned business. Without the separation of family and firm weak interpersonal skills typically are disastrous for these entities.
The cost of conflict examines the economic, social, developmental, strategic and environmental costs associated in respects to parties involved in the conflict. Cost conflicts of occupational sex segregation facilitated unequal treatment, contributed to lower wages for women and lesser authority with less responsibility. This division of sexes further complicated work dynamics and home relationship which incited stressful environments for employees of harness racing industry. Gender neutral issues often made employees feel incompetent, isolated and not accepted which stifled decision making. Their commitment levels were lower which led to poor performance and none productivity. Harness racing lacked interpersonal skills this resulted to lack in communication, communication breakdown, in fighting, aggressive attitudes and occupational sabotage. The business was on a decline until the American harness industry found ways to manage conflicts.
American harness racing industry used effective conflict resolution techniques to resolve occupational sex segregation, gender neutrality and interpersonal issues. Mediation or third party assistance was used to resolve issues between husband and wife co-ownership disputes. Clear and concise duties and responsibilities were outlined and payment matched job responsibilities. An influx of female employees were hired which balanced out the male to female ratio workforce. A comprehensive human resources element was adopted to handle employee grievances and customer complaints. Effective communication training techniques were incorporated and a life consultant was added to the staff. This gave management and employees an outlet to discuss work or relationships issues without retribution. Instead of segregating by sex, more of the upper management duties were divided evenly by management experience.
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Garkovich, L., Bokemeier, J.L. and Foote, B. (1995) Harvest of Hope: Family Farming/
Farming Families. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.
Larsen, E. A. (2006). The Impact of Occupational Sex Segregation on Family Businesses: The Case of American Harness Racing. Gender, Work & Organization, 13(4), 359-382. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2006.00312.
Marchand, J. F., & Hock, E. (2000). Avoidance and Attacking Conflict-Resolution Strategies among Married Couples: Relations to Depressive Symptoms and Marital Satisfaction. Family Relations, (2). 201.
“The veldt” and the character being the nursery
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“The veldt” and the character being the nursery
I have learnt that George and Lydia Hadley think something isn’t right with the “nursery” in their costly Happy Life Home. The Happy Life Home is an advanced house that robotizes relatively every human schedule: it cooks and cleans, turns lights on and off, transports the Hadley’s to their rooms through an “air storeroom,” and even shakes them to rest (American Literature (2010). As the kitchen naturally makes supper for them, Lydia requests that George choose investigate the nursery, or call a clinician to look at it.
The initial couple of lines build up the setting as an innovative eventual fate of bounty, revolved around an easeful home life in which the family truly doesn’t need to do any work of their own. In the meantime, I think the marked “Cheerful life Home” recommends the consumerism behind this appearing heaven and the say of the requirement for an analyst proposes all really isn’t as great as it appears. “Investigating” the “nursery” utilizes dialect that influences the nursery to seem like an auto or machine, and influences it to clear that even kid raising in this world has been “outsourced” to innovation (Dramatic Publishing, 1972). As I would like to think, the storyteller calls attention to how costly the nursery is with a specific end goal to delineate the degree to which George and Lydia have ruined their youngsters. Yet, my desires of what a nursery should look like is completely overturned by the terrifying veldt that it really introduces. That this veldt reality shows up “too genuine” builds up the charm of fabricated reality, how it can be more empowering than real reality. Then, it’s fascinating that the scene the youngsters have made is one of primitive nature, as opposed to a cartoonish dream.
George’s shock at the nursery’s virtual reality validates this present room’s status as the pinnacle of human power and innovation. Bradbury’s depiction of the nursery “what a good time for everybody” takes after an ad for an amusement stop or motion picture. The way that the nursery now and again feels excessively genuine again references the overstimulation of mass diversion for Bradbury the nursery speaks to a sensible expansion of TV. Here, Lydia think and feels the line amongst reality and virtual reality starting to obscure. The Hadley guardians’ misery isn’t caused by the way that they are working too hard rather, it’s that they don’t have anything to do. The Happy Life Home has assumed control over the majority of their everyday assignments, with the end goal that they never again feel helpful and important in their own particular home. Lydia’s want to cook and clean by and by recommends the possibility that machines that satisfy each impulse don’t make genuine joy (Dramatic Publishing, 1972). The Home has taken away the Hadley’s’ feeling of reason: they need to feel like they have a place on the planet, and keeping in mind the end goal to have a place on the planet they should feel like they matter, which requires that there be work that they need to do.
George’s appearance that the kids have been investing excessively energy in the nursery raises the idea that Wendy and Peter may be dependent on their innovation. Also, for this situation, George perceives that the nursery is particularly unsafe on the grounds that it gives the kids such a great amount of energy with so little obligation. He understands that the veldt is a declaration of his kids’ darkest contemplations. George comprehends that it is normal for kids to wish demise or decimation on others, before they even know the results of such a desire, yet fears that Wendy and Peter, by playing out their contemplations of death in the nursery, may fortify this regular inclination in a way that leads toward real brutality.
Bradbury depicts the view utilizing words that infer cunning: the truth is introduced similarly as an artwork or a motion picture. This further hazy spots the lines amongst reality and the nursery’s “simulated reality”, and proposes that reality relies upon where you stand. The picture likewise shows a flawless juxtaposition between a human eating and of the lions encouraging, another editorial on the major creature ness or brutality of human impulses and wants.
The Hadley kids are indecent in their control of their folks. In the meantime, Bradbury’s depiction of them influences them to show up relatively mechanical. The majority of their activities and articulations are portrayed as one: one can envision them talking together in a level, emotionless voice. The Hadley’s seem to live ideal lives in their Happy Life Home, yet in truth the guardians feel futile, while the youngsters are un-feeling (Foreshadowing makes the Reader have an Opinion.” (2010). The grisly wallet is another trace of what the kids have been doing – an insight George appears to at any rate halfway comprehend when he bolts the nursery entryway. The lion’s thunder and the resulting shout appear right now to show that his worries are precise.
“The lions were coming. Furthermore, again George Hadley was loaded with esteem for the mechanical virtuoso who had imagined this room. A supernatural occurrence of effectiveness offering at a preposterously minimal effort. Each home ought to have one. Goodness, periodically they scared you with their clinical exactness, they startled you, gave you a twinge, however more often than not what a good time for everybody, your own particular child and girl, as well as for yourself when you felt like a fast side trip to a remote land, a speedy difference in landscape”.
George and Lydia’s evaluation of their kids is basically exact; be that as it may, in the meantime, the guardians don’t perceive the degree of the issue. The way that Wendy and Peter have so effectively crushed spirit into the nursery, and that George and Lydia don’t attempt to make a move, shows how little power the guardians really have over their kids George and Lydia’s mechanical infantilization causes them disregard. Innovation inside the story is both the issue and the cure, which may be the meaning of any fixation.
The way that Peter does not take a gander at his dad delineates how antagonized the kids are from their folks, and from human communication all in all. Diminish does not appear to feel any sort of affection or tend to his dad; he goes so far as to undermine George’s life (American Literature (2010). Dwindles desire to do nothing aside from “look and tune in and smell” exhibits indeed how the Happy Life Home has lessened the Hadley family to creatures who are both latent buyers of amusement and creature like to their greatest advantage.
After reading out the story of “the veldt” and the character being the nursery I have learnt that the George Hadley is a typical husband and father for the 1950s.I think of him as Mr. Cleaver, only not so winsome. He wants his family to have nice stuff. But he’s too busy working to really see what’s going on at home. he spent a lot of his time in his study rather than, to stay with his family. I also learnt that He’s less nervous than his wife. For example, when the nursery isn’t working, George says that it’s probably broken, while Lydia worries that the kids did something to it because they’re dangerous kids and they sleep in separate beds. But George is also, in many ways, the worst father that the 1950s could imagine. He’s weak and ineffective. His kids are in control of the house and they’re an inch away from being juvenile delinquents.
WORK CITED
Larson, Matthew. “American Literature Sarah Pierson Wolff 25 October 2010 Foreshadowing makes the Reader have an Opinion.” (2010).
Acharya, Maya. “Sarah Pierson Wolff American Literature 25 October 2010 The Futility of Ignorance.” American Literature (2010).
Gale, Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt. Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Bradbury, Ray. The veldt. Dramatic Publishing, 1972.
Bradbury, Ray. The veldt. Dramatic Publishing, 1972.
“The New Trend in Healthcare Do-it-Yourself” by Betsy Morris
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“The New Trend in Healthcare: Do-it-Yourself” by Betsy Morris
In the wake of the post-pandemic era which strained healthcare systems and made it nearly impossible to book a doctor’s appointment, patients are now providing themselves with care in the comfort of their home. One such patient is Elizabeth Ditty who narrates her struggle to get doctor’s attention when she felt lethargic and could not lose weight. This pushed her to order do-it-yourself medical kits to measure cholesterol and hormone levels and keep track of food sensitivities. The 39-year-old screenwriter, then used the results to add supplements, adjust diet, and eliminate eggs, a move that helped her lose weight and feel better.
Taking matters into her own hands, places Miss Ditty in the do-it-yourself movement that boomed during the pandemic as industry analysts and doctors point out. People were getting frustrated with the burdened system pushing them to turn to home kits, gadgets, monitors, and apps for tests and tasks that were previously carried out by trained medical professionals (Morris, 2). Consumers are conducting EKGs, monitoring own blood pressure, keeping track of their cholesterol and blood sugar levels, and pricking their fingers for blood tests conducted by doctors in hospitals. While the majority of the doctors are in support of consumers taking more responsibility of their healthcare, they warn that too much overdependence on DIY without guidance from an expert could cause major health problems. Despite these concerns, doctors are still recommending that patients take on some additional work citing worker burnouts and staff shortages that cause long wait times for doctor appointments.
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Morris, Betsy. “The New Trend in Healthcare: Do-It-Yourself.” WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022, www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-trend-in-healthcare-do-it-yourself-11641906002.