My Life

Conflict has been defined as "an spoken struggle between at least two mutually dependent parties who recognize mismatched goals, scarce resources, and meddling from the other party in achieving their goals". Significant concepts in this definition comprise "expressed struggle," which means the two sides must converse about the problem for them to disagreement. Another significant idea is that disagreement often involves opinions. The two sides may only recognize that their goals, resources, and meddling are mismatched with each other's.

Once I came across a conflict situation, the issue was to pay the salaries to employees early in advance, so that the employees won't be late in having their payments, and the management wanted to provide the salaries upon the submission of the fees from the students. The conflict thus arose between the management and the principal of the institute. The principal wanted to provide the salaries and the management was not agreed to do so. At that moment, I suggested the idea that as many of the employees are the only supporters of their families, so the problem can be solved by taking a loan from the bank and providing the workers with their salaries and later on return the bank account on the submission of the fees. That made the problem solved.

At this point, I'm reminded of an incident that I encountered while I was working abroad. In the first month of my stay there, I was asked to give a presentation at a meeting with my American colleagues. I got him all prepared for the presentation, which for me was very important, as it was my first one in the US office. But while giving my presentation, I got myself quite flustered because I noticed some of my American colleagues were chewing gums. Chewing gum while one is giving ...