Expressed struggle captures the notion that conflict does not exist unless all the people involved know that the disagreement exists even if the expressed struggle is not verbalized.
Expressed Struggle
An example could be family members avoiding each other because both think, “I don't want to see them for awhile because of what they did.” The expression of the struggle is often activated by a triggering event which brings the conflict to everyone's attention.
Defining Conflict: An expressed struggle between at least interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce resources, and interference from others in achieving their goals.
Conflict is an Expressed Struggle
Conflict is a communication process that is expressed verbally and nonverbally. Wilmot & Hocker assert that communication creates conflict, communication reflects conflict, and communication is the vehicle for the management of conflict (Wilmot & Hocker, 1998).
Conflict can be expressed directly or indirectly, and it can be beneficial or harmful. Conflict is often expressed directly, through the verbal channel, or through spoken words. This route can lead to emotional escalation and increase the seriousness of the conflict, though it can also lead to a quicker resolution.
Most expressed struggles are activated by a triggering event. The triggering event brings awareness of the conflict to everyone's attention.
Effective speaking involves three main areas: the words you choose, how you say them, and how you reinforce them with other non-verbal communication. All these affect the transmission of your message, and how it is received and understood by your audience.
Expressive communication is a message to another person. It is the means by which feelings, wants, likes, dislikes, comments, and intents are expressed. It can be thought of as the output. For effective communication, both expressive and receptive communication must occur.
Nonverbal communication means conveying information without using words.1 This might involve using certain facial expressions or hand gestures to make a specific point, or it could involve the use (or non-use) of eye contact, physical proximity, and other nonverbal cues to get a message across.
Interdependence Conflicts.
A person's job depends on someone else's co- operation, output or input. For example a sales-person is constantly late inputting the monthly sales figures which causes the accountant to be late with her reports.
Interdependence/Task-Based Conflicts
The solution? Delegate tasks effectively. Communicate with the team the importance of responsibility and accountability. Clarify what everyone should be doing in their role so they're all on the same page when deadlines approach.
Conflict, in Psychology, is when 2 or more strong motives that arise cannot be solved together. Dollar and Miller gave us insights on four types of conflicts we often get stuck in: approach-approach, avoidance-avoidance, approach-avoidance, and double approach-avoidance.
Conflict is defined by Wilmot & Hocker (2010) as an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive scarce resources, incompatible goals and interference from the other in achieving their goal(s).
Big smiles, loud crying, jumping for joy, and making crazy art are all expressive, which is to effectively show feelings. Anything that communicates thoughts or feelings is expressive. Expressive comes from the French word expres for "clear, plain.” It's easy to read people who are expressive, their emotions are clear.
Speaking, gesturing (waving, pointing), writing (texting, emailing), facial expressions (crying, smiling), and vocalizations (crying, yelling) are all variations of expressive language.
Examples of expressive speech act verbs are e.g. apologize, console, congratulate, lament, praise, greet or welcome (1985: 211–216).
Corinne's presentation "Clear, concise, consistent - The three C's of effective communication" is available online for viewing.
Everyone makes communication mistakes from time to time. However, you'll protect your reputation if you avoid the most common errors. These include not editing your work, accidentally violating people's privacy when forwarding emails, and not being assertive.
Examples of Employee Personality Clashes
A clash can occur when employees don't understand or accept differences in each other's personalities. An employee may think their colleague is rude because they have straightforward personality traits and tend to say whatever is on their mind.
One of the most common types of conflict is personality conflict or interpersonal conflict. This conflict occurs when two or more people have different personalities, which leads to differences in communication styles and work preferences.