Category: Workplace

This article was previously published by CFIER. In the course of responding to inquiries about the use of an interest-based...

Reprinted with permission from ADR Currents, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sept. -Nov. 2000), a publication of the American Arbitration Association.Violations...

Conflict is an inevitable fact of any organizations life. Organizations that accept this truism, do so for many different reasons,...

"This article originally appeared in Track Two (Vol. 7 No. 2 August 1998) , a quarterly publication of the Centre...

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Karen likes to spend a half-hour each week privately with each of her employees to sound out their concerns about...

In October 1998, President Clinton signed the Dispute Resolution Act of 1998 mandating all federal courts to develop an ADR...

The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision written by Justice Mosk, has gone a long way towards defining the...

(NEDRA) (Introduced in the House) HR 4593 IH 106th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4593 To amend title VII of...

Reprinted with permission from ADR Report, Volume 3, Number 2, pages 5-8. Copyright 1999 by Pike and Fischer, Inc. Although...

Currently, there are more rules, regulations, and laws dealing with sexual discrimination, and particularly sexual harassment, than any other substantive...

With the growing recognition that mediation is an important element in an effective conflict management system, many corporations are training...

Introduction A number of recent initiatives by Congress and the Government have encouraged the use of alternative methods of workplace...

Product and process. These are the two areas of focus for any successful business. As a business owner or manager,...

Put two people together in the workplace (or anywhere else!) and there will be conflicts. So it goes with people!...

Review by: Jane Becker Garzilli Published by: Jossey-Bass 1999, 223 pages. Order at Amazon.comJohn Dunlop and Arnold Zack, respected authorities...

Why do so many custom construction projects end up in fights? This trio of articles is aimed at the main...

Employee attitudes and characteristics In a 1990 survey: 62% of respondents indicated that they would be more willing to take...

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. Reprinted from Dispute Resolution Journal, February 1998. Published by the American Arbitration Association, 335 Madison Avenue, New...

Overview Today's workplace abounds with a tremendous variety of people, all with different viewpoints. No two employees have identical perspectives...

Much time in nonprofits is spent in conflict and dealing with the consequences of conflict because organizations today are constantly...

Over the last few years Geoff Ball and I (Jerry Talley) have come across a few samples of what we...

Mostly, working groups are not like cars! But there are some analogies: Both are made up of interdependent parts. The...

The workplace continues to grow as a consumer of conflict management and dispute resolution services. A number of intiatives confirm...

While dispute resolution skills and systems have been a hot topic of discussion in the Canadian legal community for the...

April 21, 1998 Dear Colleague: The Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) has embarked in a major initiative to...

Full PDF Version August 12, 1997 The Honorable John L. Mica Chairman, Subcommittee on Civil Service Committee on Government Reform...

Sec. 1. Short Title This Act may be cited as the “Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996.” Sec. 2. Findings...