Reframing Resolution Innovation and Change in the Management of Work

Reframing Resolution provides an original, accessible and critical point of reference for students, practitioners and scholars interested in the management of workplace conflict. Drawing on contemporary empirical evidence from the UK, USA, Ireland and Aus

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REFRAMING RESOLUTION Innovation and Change in the Management of Workplace Conflict

Reframing Resolution

Richard Saundry • Paul Latreille • Ian Ashman Editors

Reframing Resolution Innovation and Change in the Management of Workplace Conflict

Editors Richard Saundry Plymouth Business School Plymouth University Plymouth, United Kingdom

Paul Latreille Sheffield University Management School Sheffield, United Kingdom

Ian Ashman University of Central Lancashire Lancashire Business School Preston, United Kingdom

ISBN 978-1-137-51559-9 ISBN 978-1-137-51560-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51560-5

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Acknowledgements

The editors would like to thank all the contributors for their work in compiling this volume and also Sir Brendan Barber for writing the foreword. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) in funding the empirical research which features in a number of Chapters. Furthermore we would like to acknowledge the funding of the Economic and Social Research Council for the seminar series ‘Reframing Resolution – Managing Conflict and Resolving Individual Employment Disputes in the Contemporary Workplace’ (Grant number: ES/J022276/1) which provided the foundation for this book.

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Contents

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Introduction Ian Ashman, Paul Latreille, and Richard Saundry

Part I 2

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Surveying the Terrain

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Conceptualizing Workplace Conflict and Conflict Management Richard Saundry

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Exploring the Nature and Extent of Workplace Conflict Jo