The Conflict Escalation Cycle

question 87

Multiple Choice

The conflict escalation cycle

• A)helps employees to move from socioemotional to task conflict.
• B)helps the conflicting parties to remove the sources of conflict.
• C)includes the situation where behaviours during manifest conflict communicate the perception of conflict to the other party.
• D)rarely occurs in organizational settings.
• E)Involves all of these.

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