Read the following Case Study and then complete the exercises in RED below:

The Case of the Amorous Cop

Joe Hunter has been with the San Angeles police department for the past six years. After graduating second in his class at the state police academy, Hunter was hired as a patrol officer with San Angeles. He quickly moved up the ranks to corporal in his second year and sergeant in his fourth. All of the officers considered Hunter to be the best cop on the force because of his high level of intelligence as well as his uncanny ability to work with the public by anticipating problems in the community.

Everything was going along well for Sergeant Hunter until he started dating a woman he met at a club near the station. What he didnt know until five months after they began dating was that she had once been engaged to his captain.

When Hunters captain discovered the relationship, he was furious with Hunter, but knew that he could not legally control the private life of his employee. However, even though he could not directly tell Hunter what to do, he decided to make his life miserable at work. Captain Webb constantly gave Hunter the worst assignments, kept him away from the public contact that made him such a good officer, and started to lower Hunters performance evaluations.

Hunter was frustrated at first, then hurt, then finally angry. He finally reached a point where he was so angry that he just had to do something. But he is having trouble deciding what to do. Use the following exercises to consider what you would do if you were Hunter.

Describe the Problem and Needs

Describe the problem from the viewpoint of Sergeant Hunter (p. 404.) Be sure to include what is undesirable about the situation he is facing and what he needs to accomplish as he considers how to solve the problem. You are not identifying solutions; you are describing the problem.

Describe Hunters problem here:

Consider Your Partners Point of View

Describe the problem from the viewpoint of Captain Webb (p. 405.) Be sure to include the undesirable situation he is facing as well as what his needs are.

Describe Webbs problem here:

Identify Solutions

List at least 10 possible solutions that Sergeant Hunter should consider as ways to resolve this conflict. Keep in mind the five different conflict styles (pp. 384-392): avoiding, accommodating, competing, compromising, and collaborating, and try to include solutions that fit into each of the strategies.

List ten or more solutions here, labeling the solutions according to style (e.g. Quit the force and become a drug dealer. Avoiding.):

Select the Best Solution

Decide which solution is the best solution for Hunter (pp. 405-406,) and explain why it is the best solution from the viewpoint of both Hunter and Webb here: