42.Identify the most appropriate conflict management styleavoiding, accommodating, competing, compromising, or collaboratingto use in each situation. Explain your answer.

1. You've joined a committee to make contacts. You have little interest in what the committee actually does. You make a recommendation that is opposed by another member. You realize that you have the better idea, but the other party is using a competing style.
2. You're a sales manager, and your most competent salesperson, Beth, is trying to close a big sale. The two of you are discussing the sales call she will make. You disagree on the most effective strategy to close the sale.
3. You're over budget for labor this month. The current workload is light, so you ask Kent, a part-time employee, to leave work early. Kent tells you that he doesn't want to go because he needs the money.