Assignment task: Bias Perception and Conflict
Review Chapter 3: Deconstructing Conflicts in the required course textbook.
How parties to a conflict perceive the position of the other party can greatly impact how each party engages in the conflict and how they seek to resolve (or not resolve) the conflict. Sometimes, a party's wrongly perceived impressions about their opposing party can increase the chance of a conflict and decrease the options to resolve a conflict. , answer the following questions:
- Provide a definition of perception bias.
- Share an example within an organization, either personally experienced or researched, of how one party exhibited bias perception toward another party.
- Describe how this misunderstanding escalated into conflict.
- Explain some tactics or strategies that the party, in the example you shared, could have used to avoid their bias perception and averted their conflict with their opposing party.