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OLS 252 Exam 2
Purdue, OLS 252, Exam 2, Summer term
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
05/26/2011

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Diveristy is a team advantage
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True
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Teamwork
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Uses the skills and abilities of several individuals
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role
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set of behavior patterns attributed to a given team member
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role percepetion
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how the individual believes he or she should act in a given team role
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role expectation
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how others on the team believe other member should behave
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leader
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directs and facilitate
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creator
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initiates creative ideas
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Promoter
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champions ideas
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asssesor
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anaylsizes options
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organizor
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provides structure
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producer
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direction and follows through
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controller
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enforces rules examines detail
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maintainer
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fights external battles
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adviser
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seeks more information
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linker
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coordinates and integrates
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role conflict
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when role perception and role expectation are not congruent
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social loafing
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one does the minimum in the group participation. just enough effort
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sterotyping
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attributing specific trait to a person based on their group's characteristics
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synergy
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cohesive work group. force is greater than the sum of the parts
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group
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2 or more interacting individuals with stable pattern of relationships. share a common goal
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informal and formal
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two types of groups

 

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command group
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type of formal group. organizational chart, tells who the employee reports to
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formal group
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organizational structure
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informal group
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common or social interests
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task grop
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 group formed to complete a task
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interest group
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SADD, students against drunk driving

 

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friendship group
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bong together. similiar characteristics
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5 reasons people join group
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security, status, self esteem, power. goal achievement, organizational structure
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group developement steps
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forming, storming, norming, performing, adjouring
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forming
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members come together. caution, confusion, uncertainity
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storming
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tension, hositility and intragroup conflict
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norming
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establishing group norms and close relationships
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performing
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focus on accomplishing the task
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adjourning
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wrapping up activities, closure
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team
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members have complimentary skils. common purpose and goal, mutually accountable
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5 dysfunctions
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trust, fear on conflict, lack of healthy conflict, avoidance of accountability, failure to hold other members accountable
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cohensive team behaves
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trustingm unflitered conflict around ideas, commin to decisionsm, hold others accountable, focus to achieve results
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punctuated equillibrium model
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performance and time is the focus.

ex. midlife crisis

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types of teams
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problem solving, cross functional, self managed

 

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problem solving
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solve issue related to qualitym productivity, or the work enviorment
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cross functional
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bring workers from different areas or skill sets
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self-managed
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take over the responsibilities of their former supervisors
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size
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team issue, large can be great or bad, social loafing can occur
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team skills
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technial expertise, problem solving, and communicating
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authority
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leadership guiding the process
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dependancy
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significant feeling of expectation
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trust
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ethical predict behavior, intergretity, dependancy
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virtual teams
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ppl use teh to commnicate from various locations
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group think
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group conformity overrides reality. overhighly cohesive
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group shift
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lack of individual responsibility. group shifts to more conservative or more risky
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escalation of commitment
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staying the course of action beyond where its reasonable
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leadership
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the ability to influence others
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trait theory
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individuals personal attributes. born leaders
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behavioral theory
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leadership can be learned/ focuses on what leaders tend to do
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Ohio state study

2 behavior characteristics

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initiating structure

Consideration to others

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university of michigan

 

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production orientated& employee orientated
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mangerial grid
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useful tool to address exerience, conflict, and team building
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Contingency theory
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link the situatution with the concept of task and relatioship
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3 parts of the Contingency theory
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position poer, task structure, leader-member realtions
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LPC least preferred coworker
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measures leader's style
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Situational leadership model
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proposes that a leader's style is flexibl eand may be adjusted to fit the situation
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4 leadership styles
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directive, coaching, participating, delegatinf
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contemporary approaches
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attribution, charismatic, transformational, emotional intelligence
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attribution theory
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cause and effect. when something happend, the leader becomes the focus
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charismatic/visionary
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self confidence, visiom, behavior is out of the ordinary, perceieved as a change agent, sensitive o the organizational enviroment
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transformational
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a change, inspiration, intellectual stimulation, individual consideration
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transactional
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provides rewards, take corrective action, changes are made when standards are not met
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emotional intelligence
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recognize ones own feelings and those of others
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4 competencies
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self awarness, self regulation, social awareness, relationship management
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satisificing
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take good enough
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implicit
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find the best option for the needs
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decision making key
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understanding the problem
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step 1 decision making
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identify the need and decision criteria
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to make the best decision you must
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figuare your wants and needs
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5 types of actions
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corrective, interim, preventative, contingency, adaptive
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contingency action
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back up plan
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preventative
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solve the conflict befor the issue happens
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adaptive
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learn how to deal with the problems and issues
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interacting
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group of friends talk about the plan for the night
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brainstorming
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throwing ot random ideas
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nominal
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each member presents their idea and the group deliberates
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Delphi
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annonymous questionnaire. takes a long time
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electronic meeting
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fast, anonyomous, and honest.use computer interaction to produce the best solution
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4 steps of communication
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source, encoding, channel, decoding
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barriers to communication
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unfamiliar langauge, improper timing, noise and distractions to the enviroment, attitude, diff b/t ppl, relationship b/t sender and reciever, filtering, selective perception
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directions of communication
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upward, downward, laterally, outside
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outside communcation
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to customers, suppliers, and other organizations
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grapevine
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informal communication network within an organization
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rumors
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are unsubstained stories that appear to be important tha cause anxiet, and are ambiguous
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oother considerations
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body language, gestures, tone of voice
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conflict
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where one party percieves that another party has negativiely affected something that the first party cares about
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traditional view
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believe conflict shoul be avoided, unrealistic
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human relations
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conflicts are a natural part od life and ppl need to learn how to resolve them
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interactionist view
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conflict is good and it is needed for groups to perform effectively
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strategies of handling conflict
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assertiveness and cooperativeness
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avoiding strategy
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walk away
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accomodating
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lose to preserve th relationship
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competing
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making sure you win from the situation
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compromising
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try so both parties get a little of each
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collaborating
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work together to find the best possible solution
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concilitation
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try to keep both partys talking
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fact finding
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a outside person idenitify the facts, an give recommendations if askd
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consultant
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aid in problem solving, makes recommendations
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mediation
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make suggest, help reach and agreement, persuades, etc
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arbitration
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makes the final decision after hearing parties
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negotiation
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an exchange process
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distributive
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win lose. give some here and there
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integrative
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no losers, win win
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attitiduinal
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changing the other party's attitude towards you
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intraorganizational
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convincing ppl on your own side that you are doin the best you can for them. unions-mangers type deal
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3 stages of negogiation
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preparation, action, closure and implementation
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action
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no ultimatiums, body language, don't talk excessively
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mediators
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respected among both parties.
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arbitrator
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one who has the authorityto end a negotiation and make the final decision
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concilitator
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 a friend that use informal communication that becomes a bridge for resolution
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consultant
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a trained professional counselor
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NO!!
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are ther truely gender differences ever?
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