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The Essential Guide to Workplace Mediation and C – Rebuilding Working Relationships

Autor Nora Doherty, Marcelas Guyler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2008
Workplace mediation is becoming an increasingly popular dispute resolution method to settle interpersonal employee conflicts, including harassment and bullying complaints. There is a direct ratio between the quality of relationships across the workplace and long-term effectiveness and success. Mediation addresses complex relationship difficulties head-on so that working relationships can be restored.
 
Fostering a philosophy of mediation as a culture and a “co-entrepreneurial” business model, Doherty and Guyler consider what mediation is, why it is necessary and how it works, including the main principles of operation and the 6-step structure of a mediation meeting.  They analyze the reasons for conflict and suggest useful everyday communication skills to help defuse anger or aggression.  Real case studies look at specific complaints of bullying, of sexual harassment and of racism, generational conflicts within family businesses and boardroom conflicts between chairmen and CEOs.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780749450199
ISBN-10: 0749450193
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Kogan Page

Cuprins

Preface           
 
            Introduction    
                        Why should I find out about workplace mediation?   
                        Finding your way around this book    
 
Part I Workplace mediation 
 
1.         So what exactly is workplace mediation?    
                        A working definition of mediation     
                        The underlying principles of mediation          
                        Where does workplace mediation come from?           
 
2.         An example of a breakdown in a workplace relationship: Wendy and Mark        
                        Wendy and Mark and a complaint of bullying
                        So how do organizations respond to conflict?
 
3.         Just how does mediation work?       
                        The six-step model of mediation        
                        Confidentiality in mediation   
                        Mediation and levels of listening        
 
4.         Finding your way around conflict resolution: what is special about mediation?    
                        The nature of conflict 
                        The elements that can divide  
                        The principles that unite         
                        Dispute resolution methods    
                        A comparative continuum of workplace interventions           
                        What is special about mediation?        
 
5.         How mediation can be used within organizations    
                        Mediation when working relationships break down    
                        Mediation as an informal resolution within personnel policies           
                        Mediation after a formal investigation has taken place           
                        Mediation as part of your customer or client complaints procedure    
 
6.         Workplace mediation for teams       
                        So what lies behind team conflict?     
                        Conflict scenarios: how will team dysfunction be manifest?  
                        Team mediation is not an ‘away day’ 
                        What is team mediation?         
                        Who should facilitate a team mediation?        
                        When team mediation should be considered and when not    
                        Organizing a team mediation  
 
7.         Team mediation and group dynamics          
                        Looking at group dynamics    
                        Mediation and sub-personalities         
                        Dealing with cultural differences: prejudice, assumptions and discrimination
                        Mediation and group scapegoating      
                        Team mediation and ‘ghost figures’    
 
8.         Introducing mediation into your workplace
                        Who is going to carry out the mediations?      
                        Where do you find external mediators?          
                        How do you select internal mediators from your staff?          
                        What training will internal mediators need?    
                        Supervision of internal mediators       
                        How will mediation be part of your personnel policies?         
                        Dissemination of mediation throughout your organization     
 
Part II Mediation in action: case studies of real life workplace mediations           
 
9.         Case studies of workplace mediation between two employees        
                        A mediation for a complaint of bullying against a manager    
                        A mediation for a complaint of sexual harassment     
                        A mediation between two colleagues sharing an office and alleged racism    
                        Moving through the eye of the storm and the art of the impossible: a mediator’s view of the process
 
10.       Case studies of workplace mediation with teams     
                        Team Case Study One: a team with multiple problems           
                        Team Case Study Two: mediation between senior managers and two teams   
 
11.       Case Studies of workplace mediation for boardroom conflicts       
                        Mediation for a family manufacturing firm between directors – father and son         
                        Mediation for an international company between the chairman and the managing director    
 
Part III The philosophy and processes of mediation: in support of conflict managers and organizational development  
 
12.       Why do conflicts arise? Some universal, individual and interpersonal models       
                        Stress, threat and conflict: ‘hardwired for a fight…’   
                        Stress and conflict in the contemporary business environment of change      
                        Individual perception, life-stances and conflict          
                        Personal responses to conflict: passive/aggressive/assertive    
                        Interpersonal conflict styles and tactics: a summary   
                        Avoiding negativity for mediators and conflict managers       
 
13.       Why and how should managers respond to conflict?           
                        ‘Conflict costs’: managing conflict effectively saves money  
                        Anger and how to handle it     
                        Managing your mind-talk        
                        Reframing inflammatory language: turning poisons into honey          
                        Changing an impasse into a win–win solution
                        Resolving everyday conflicts quickly with the Brief MediationTM model       
 
14.       The philosophy of mediation and the business of empowerment     
                        ‘May you live in interesting times’      
                        So where are organizations headed in the 21st century?         
                        Mediation and the business of empowerment 
                        Empowerment and responsibility within mediation    
 
15.       ‘Beyond mediation’: the culture of mediation and organizational development    
                        Mediation as a culture and the ‘co-entrepreneurial’ business  
                        The mediation process and ‘mediated business solutions’      
                        Conclusions: the last word      
 
            Bibliography   
            Index  
 

Recenzii

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Notă biografică

Nora Doherty, Marcelas Guyler

Descriere

Workplace mediation is becoming an increasingly popular dispute resolution method to settle interpersonal employee conflicts, including harassment and bullying. Fostering a philosophy of mediation as a culture and a co-entrepreneurial business model, Doherty and Guyler consider what mediation is, why it is necessary, and how it works.