International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 1 Issue 4

RELATIVE STATUS OF EMPLOYEES AND STYLES OF HANDLING INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY WITH KOREAN MANAGERS

Chang‐Won Lee

An onsite experimental study was conducted in order to observe conflict management styles of 90 middle‐level managers from a large Korean furniture manufacturing company. By using…

POWER BALANCING IN MEDIATION: OUTCOMES AND IMPLICATIONS OF MEDIATOR INTERVENTION

Carol A. Ippolito, Dean G. Pruitt

Literature on power differentials within mediation sessions has indicated that when power imbalances are too great, mediation is not the proper venue for the resolution of these…

EXTRAJUDICIAL MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION: EVALUATION OF GERMAN VICTIM‐OFFENDER‐RECONCILIATION PROGRAMS

Wolfgang Bilsky

This paper evaluates juvenile delinquency mediation in the West German judicial system. It describes three programs which spearheaded mediation in Germany. The evaluation…

MANAGING CONFLICT IN A CONTEXT OF GOVERNMENT CHANGE: LESSONS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF CANADA, 1984–1988

Jacques Bourgault, Stèphane Dion

Many relationships between politicians and bureaucrats are based on an energy‐equilibrium model where the politicians provide energy and the bureaucrats, equilibrium. According to…