Leading through Conflict
Effective leadership requires many skills, but foremost among them is the capacity to successfully deal with conflict. Any disruption that creates a lack of alignment can trigger the conflict cycle, such as differences of opinion, competition for scarce resources and interpersonal enmity. Leading through Conflict brings together recent theory and research on interpersonal conflict and its resolution by examining the causes and consequence of conflict in groups, organizations and communities, and identifying ways that conflict can be managed and resolved. It analyzes conflict in a multi-disciplinary way, from clashes within communities to interpersonal and professional encounters.
Written in an accessible way by top scholars in the field, Leading through Conflict is a must-read for academics, graduate students, undergraduates and MBA students across leadership, organizational behavior, psychology and sociology.
Donelson R. Forsyth is Professor at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, USA where he holds the Colonel Leo K. and Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership. He studies groups, leadership, ethical thought, and the psychological and interpersonal consequences of success and failure at the group and individual level. He is the author of Group Dynamics (6th ed., 2014) and has published articles in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the American Psychologist. His work has been featured in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and the ABC Nightly News.
