Demonstrate proficiency in the following criteria:
1. Identify variables within structures or institutions that can promote conflict. Evaluate institutional issues that have hindered the ability to resolve a conflict related to culture. Evaluate institutional issues that have hindered the ability to resolve a gender-related conflict.
2. Analyze the impact of conflict on relationship-building in face-to-face, virtual, cyber, and group communication. Compare perceptions about power and conflict with an opposite gender individual in a professional setting. Compare perceptions about how power is used in the workplace with an opposite gender individual in a professional setting. Compare beliefs that may interfere with being more open to discovering new information about conflict with an opposite gender individual in a professional setting.
3. Conduct two interviews with individuals whose gender and culture are different from your own. Conduct one interview in person and the other virtually or online. Interview someone in a business setting whose gender and culture are different from your own. Compare your perceptions of power and conflict and your perceptions of how power is used in the workplace. Interview someone in a social-institutional setting whose gender and culture are different from your own. Compare your perceptions of power and conflict and your perceptions of how power is used in the workplace.
4. Write a short analysis of your findings. Analyze similarities and differences that the two of you share about the three issues listed below:
Thoughts about power and conflict
Perception of the use of power in the workplace
Beliefs you have that interfere with you being more open to discovering new information about conflict