16MBAHR306 Conflict & Negotiation Management syllabus for MBA

Introduction: Understanding conflict, components, perspectives of conflict, types of conflict, models of conflict – Process and Structural Models, functional & dysfunctional conflict, relationship between conflict and performance in team, levels of conflict – intrapersonal, interpersonal, group & organizational conflicts, sources of conflict - intrapersonal, interpersonal, group & organizational sources.

Conflict Management Design: Nature of conflict Management, contingency approach, conflict management process, the conflict domain, conflict trends, conflict distribution, conflict mapping and tracking.

Managing Conflict: Managing interpersonal conflict: Thomas conflict resolution approach, behavioral style and conflict handling, the CosierSchank model of conflict resolution, collaboration & conflict resolution, dealing with difficult subordinates, boss & colleagues, 1 to 1 dispute resolution.

Managing team & organization conflict: techniques to resolve team conflict, strategies to resolve organizational conflict, effective listening and dialogue skills, humor and conflict resolution, negotiation as a tool for conflict resolution.

Conflict resolution and Cost: Conflict resolution models, framework model, classical ideas, new developments in conflict resolution. Environmental conflict resolution, gender and conflict resolution. Assessing the cost of workplace conflict.

Negotiations/Negotiation strategies -Types of Negotiations, negotiation process, factors for successful negotiations, essential skills for negotiation, tricks used in negotiation process, psychological advantage of negotiations, Techniques of negotiation, issues in negotiations.

Negotiation strategies: Strategy and tactics for distributive bargaining, strategy and tactics for integrative negotiation, negotiation strategy and planning. Finding and using negotiation power, sources of power, Ethics in negotiation.

Managing difficult negotiations: Third party approaches: Third party interventions, formal intervention methods – Arbitration, Mediation and Process Consultation, Informal intervention methods, best practices in negotiation.

Practical Components

• Survey the conflict resolution techniques adopted by individuals based on individual personality types.

• Dividing students into groups and give a scenario to negotiate and reach conclusion.

• Reading: 8 Habits of Highly Effective People; apply the concepts to understand how people approach negotiation through different mind – sets.

• Conduct Role Plays for different scenarios.

• Solve various case studies dealing with conflict between teams and organizations.

• Ask students to identify three unconscious factors that may affect their negotiation effectiveness and ask them to explain why or how that phenomenon may occur.

• Management games like two dollar game, cross the line games can be played in the class to develop negotiation skills among the students.