Personal Conflict Resolution Paper

Final Paper – Personal Conflict Resolution Paper – Due Sunday
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate your understanding of effective negotiation and
conflict resolution techniques by applying the concepts from class to your personal and/or
professional life. Students are required to negotiate an issue of a professional or personal nature
that needs to be resolved. They should select a situation that is real and is available for
negotiation. As the negotiation evolves the student must journal the event and subsequently reduce
the journal to an academic paper.

All papers should be proofread, free of spelling/grammatical errors, include proper citations, and
be in accordance with current APA standards.

The weekly chapter deliverables, word count minimum, required format (see below).

The paper should include:
1. Introduction to the situation and issues to be resolved;
2. Assessment of the situation with explanation of the conflict(s) involved;
3. Concepts from the text(s) that will help you to dealwith negotiation and conflict more
effectively;
4. Strategy and tactics to be used during the negotiation;
5. The pre•negotiation plan describing the vision of the student relative to the negotiation and
conflict resolution process;
6. An assessment of your strengths and weaknesses related to effective conflict resolution and how
they helped or hurt;
7. A description of how each meeting went with successes and failures listed as well as how they
were dealt with;
8. Summary of the meetings and their outcomes; and
9. Conclusion

Requirements are:

APA Format

Title Page

5 pages total at least

References

Things to Consider:

Your paper will be graded on the depth of analysis, self‐insights and application of concepts learned in class. Be sure to select a negotiation experience complex enough to allow for depth of analysis and personal insights. The paper should NOT include play‐by‐play of the actual negotiation and instead only one sentence or paragraph describing what was negotiated.

Things to think about when preparing your paper:

1. What tactics and strategies in your negotiations (be specific) were effective/ineffective? WHY? (ANSWERING “WHY” IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR ANALYSIS). Did your approach help you, how so? Did it hurt you, how so? How did your process compare with the predictions of various writings on negotiation?

2. Address personal insights about how your personality or past experiences may affect your choice of strategies or implementation of tactics. Give yourself prescriptive advice. What did you learn from the exercise and what will you do differently next time?

3. Demonstrate critical thinking. This means not only determining how a behavior was effective or ineffective and why, but also realizing the inherent tradeoffs of all actions taken. Every choice has assumptions and future implications. What are they?

4. Create depth. Compare, contrast and integrate different theories/concepts together in your analysis to explain behavior. Often when analyzing complex interactions, several behaviors can be identified and evaluated for their impact on the negotiation. Do not just drop buzzwords.

5. Focus on the organization of the paper. Your papers should be well-written. A well-written paper makes clear points, flows logically and smoothly, and contains no typos or grammatical errors. Verbosity, redundancy and abrupt transitions will only obscure your points.

6. Demonstrate learning and growth. Explicitly address what you would do differently and why.