Briefly Define the Five Conflict Styles Identified by Kilmann and Thomas

question 14

Essay

Briefly define the five conflict styles identified by Kilmann and Thomas. For each style, give an example of when it would be the preferred style for managing the conflict.

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Definitions:

Special Significance

A term indicating that something holds particular importance or value in a given context.

Sacred Meaning

The significance attributed to a thing, practice, or phenomenon considered holy, divine, or spiritually significant within a cultural or religious context.

False Consciousness

A term primarily associated with Marxist theory, referring to the way in which material, ideological, and institutional processes in capitalist society mislead the proletariat and other classes about the realities of their subjugation.

Proletariats

The working-class people who do not own the means of production and must sell their labor to survive, a term often used in Marxist theory.