Conflict Management Approaches

Conflict Management Approaches
Used in Police Agencies

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January 13, 2015

Every police agency has to face the challenges of internal and external conflicts. Issues are bound to surface, impacting the productivity of the police agency. As a result, conflict management approaches are necessary in order to resolve critical issues before they grow out of proportion. There are strategies such as creating competition, and collaboration amongst members of the police agency that are able to overcome any challenges. These strategies result in both individual as well as group productivity by motivating the members of the police agency to contribute. In every police agency, there are internal and external areas of potential conflicts for that need to be monitored. Conflict management approaches and strategies for managing stress should be implemented in order to prevent the police agencies from becoming unproductive. There are a number of internal areas of potential conflict that exist within all police agencies. “Internal conflicts in which the contending parties no longer share the basic values upon which the legitimacy of the social system rests threaten to disrupt the structure” (“Conflict Management”, 2015). Police agencies could have a diverging point-of-view in how they want their company to operate, and this form of internal conflict could ultimately challenge the effectiveness of their operation. Another form of internal conflict comes in the form of internal dissatisfaction, tension and disruption (“Conflict Management”, 2015). When the members of the police agency are unsatisfied or beginning to resent one another, the police agency will suffer because its parts are not functioning to the best of their capability. Another form of internal conflict is when subgroups emerge because it tends to hinder participation from the police agency (“Conflict Management”, 2015). These subgroups begin to have their own culture and values that are not always aligned with the agenda of the police agency as well as its other members.

References:
“Conflict Management In Community Organizations”. (2015). The Ohio State University. Retrieved January 12, 2015 from http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/l701.html.

References: “Conflict Management In Community Organizations”. (2015). The Ohio State University. Retrieved January 12, 2015 from http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/l701.html.