Conflict Management | Case: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited | The case attempts to examine a conflict that took place between the Union and Management at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited in 1999. We have tried to understand the conflict and analyze the ‘conflict resolution’ methodology that was adopted in this scenario. | Background of the organization BPCL (Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited) was originally formed as Burma Shell Company, which was then nationalized
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Conflict in the workplace is inevitable. This is because individuals arrive at the office with differing goals and needs. However, conflict in the workplace does not have to be negative. If it can be resolved effectively, conflict can be productive in the workplace and can lead to personal and professional growth, which benefits the organization by increasing understanding, self-knowledge, and group cohesion. On the other hand, as many of you have probably witnessed, conflict that is not addressed
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governing conflicts of interest are based on the duties of loyalty and confidentiality. These duties are threatened when a paralegal has an interest that is adverse to a client’s, whether personal or business one. A lawyer is responsible for ensuring paralegal conflict of interest does not exist. p. 68. NALA code of ethics Canon 8 states a paralegal must disclose to his or her employer or prospective employer any pre-existing client or personal relationship that may conflict with the interests of the
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Agency Conflicts: An agency relationship arises whenever someone, called a principal, hires someone else called an agent, to perform some service, and the principal delegated decisions making authority to the agent. In companies, the primary agency relationships are between: 1. Conflicts between stockholders and creditors 2. Conflicts between Inside Owner/Managers and outside owners 3. Conflicts between managers and shareholders Conflicts between stockholders and creditors Conflict between
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epistemology of the Karl Marx theory is of the premise that the history of all existing societies is the history of class struggles. Scholars have had a long standing debate on the significance of Karl Marx’s theory of class conflict. The other party argues that the theory of class conflict helps in the understanding of relations of people in society. In contradiction, there are scholars who believe the theory does not help much in understanding societal relations. This essay seeks to establish how the Karl
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Conflict Resolution Strategies Russell L. Yakesch, Nesha Johnson, Norman Zeitunian, Oscar Garner, and Ketta Meads MGT/311 July 11, 2013 Ben Morris Conflict Resolution Strategies In many cases, conflict in the workplace just seems to be a fact of life. Situations occur where different people with different goals and needs have come into conflict. It is not necessarily a bad thing that conflict exists. Effectively resolved, conflict can lead to personal growth and development. The following
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Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy Volume 3, Number 1 (Winter 2003), pp. 1‐26 Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics Stephen R. C. Hicks Introduction: business and the free society Advocates of the free society think of business as an integral part of the dynamic, progressive society they advocate. In the West, the rise of a culture hospitable to business has unleashed incalculable productive energies. Business professionals have taken the products of science and revolutionized
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Conflict Resolution Jason D. Macias MU11BSP08 August 30, 2012 Dr. Fathiah Inserto Conflict Resolution Often times in life we come across challenges and conflicts. From childhood problems like a cousin taking your toys to adult bar room brawls the way we approach them is important to the outcome. Currently the USA is lodged in the global war on terrorism. Although it is labeled as a war the correct term of it is conflict. My article represents this to a certain extent. It is mainly about
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requires thought, discussion, or investigation to make a decision” (p. 60) whether it is right or wrong, ethical or unethical. Ethical issues results from the conflicts among individuals’ personal moral philosophies and values, the values and culture of their organizations and their society. Especially in the business environment, the ethical conflicts appear more normal when the benefit of one organization is the loss or suffering of the others. Ethical issues include many problems, situations or opportunities
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According to Karl Marx, conflict is an attribute of an enduring power struggle between the employer and the employees over the control of various aspect of work, nature of tasks, values and rate of remuneration. Industrial conflict occurs when employees express their dissatisfaction with management over the current state of the management-employee relationship. The causes of such dissatisfaction are typically matters related to regular wage payment, wage increase or remunerations according to terms
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