It is always a believed that all kind of conflict is awful. Everybody thinks conflict is bad and creates tension among others such when they are in a relationship and sometimes conflict can also be at the workplace. The title of chapter eight is called Conflict Management Skills. This chapter is talking about how to manage how to use your conflict management skills. This chapter has important outlines that will help us to related to conflict management skills and they are called Conflict defined, conflict Myths, conflict types, conflict and power, conflict management styles and conflict management skills. After looking over the notes, a couple of materials stood out to me and those were conflict triggers and conflict types.
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The different conflict types are pseudoconflict, simple conflict and ego conflict. Pseudoconflict is the lack of understanding and miscommunication. An example of pseudoconflict, is when you ask someone to take you the store, but you really mean lets go to the gas station that is miscommunication to the person who is taking you to the store. But, pseudoconflict is easier to fix than the other two conflict types. Another conflict type is simple conflict. Simple conflict is when the stems from different ideas, definitions, perception, or goals. An example that can represent simple conflict, is trying to pick a place to go for a field trip such as if one class wants to go to the zoo but the other class wants to go to the art museum. Both classes are having a disagreement on the places they wanted to go. So they have to come to some agreement. The last conflict types is ego conflict. Ego conflict is an issue is ignored as partners attack each other self- esteem. An example that can classify as ego conflict, is when a husband says to his wife that she cannot cook. Her husband is hurting her self-esteem because of the ways she