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Non-Employment Conflict Management Worksheet Mmpbl540

Non-Employment Conflict Management Worksheet

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Distributive power comes from your ability to achieve your objective “over the resistance of another . . .” (Dahl 1957, p. 3). Distributive power focuses on power over or against the other party. For example, if you see dominance as the key to power, you see power as distributive. You would see the situation as either “I dominate you or you dominate me” (Burgoon, Johnson, and Koch 1998).

Either/Or Power

You have power in order to move others against their will; it becomes a contest

of the wills when you are in a “power struggle.”

  Mark Marchant Corporate Counsel for M-Core sent out a final letters to Elva Burke, Stephen Truman, and Tracy Little offering more money than what their houses are value at to persuade them to sell.   Mark is threatening them if they don't take the offer, he will request the city to condemn their properties as part of its economic revitalization plan for the city.  

This is example of either/or power, where the relationship with the homeowners and M-Core begins to go downhill and now they are going to enforce their power by condemning the homes, so that they can obtain their land by bullying them.


Wilmot-Hocker, 2007, pp.   95, 97

Power Currencies depend on

how much your particular resources are valued by the other persons in a relationship

context.

Power depends on having currencies that other people need. In the same manner, if other people possess currencies you value,

such as the ability to edit your term paper or give you a ride, they potentially maintain

some degree of power over you in your relationships with them

Stephen Truman, who purchase his home three years ago for its investment believes that the property value will appreciate significantly over the next 10 years, but he thinks that money being offered by...