Analyzing Personal Conflict Management Style
Joyce Jones
COMM 330
July 21, 2014
Jennifer Ruthruff

Analyzing Personal Conflict Management Style The three types of conflict management styles that will analyzed in this paper is avoidance, accommodations, and collaborating. I will also discuss the conflict management style I frequently use and why. Then I will explain the difficulties that I have in dealing with other who use different conflict management styles. Then I will also discuss how avoidance and its interrelationship with conflict management conflict.
The first-conflict management style I will review is the avoidance style.” Avoidance is when people try to ignore disagreements.” (Bebe & Masterson, 2009 p.g. 161) People who use this style usually they swallow their feelings they smile even though they are upset or feeling pain. They conduct themselves in this manner because they are more concerned with other people emotional state more than theirs. Avoiders also change the subject to circumvent a conflict. An avoider may also change the subject to avoid a conflict. When they find a conversation to stressful to deal with they change the topic of the conversation. This style is the least likely style that will resolve a conflict. There are advantages and disadvantages of this conflict management style. The disadvantages of this style is emotions remain escalated and it could signal to others that you do not care. The advantages of this management style is that it allows everyone involved time to cool off and regroup. If the conflict is about something small and irrelevant it will allow yourself and others the ability not to revisit the conflict.” (Bebe & Masterson, 2009)
The second conflict management style is the accommodation style. “This is when people try to make the conflict go away by giving into the wishes of others.” (Bebe &