The Handbook of Dispute Resolution

The Handbook of Dispute Resolution
Author: Michael L. Moffitt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1118429834

This volume is an essential, cutting-edge reference for all practitioners, students, and teachers in the field of dispute resolution. Each chapter was written specifically for this collection and has never before been published. The contributors--drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines--contains many of the most prominent names in dispute resolution today, including Frank E. A. Sander, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Bruce Patton, Lawrence Susskind, Ethan Katsh, Deborah Kolb, and Max Bazerman. The Handbook of Dispute Resolution contains the most current thinking about dispute resolution. It synthesizes more than thirty years of research into cogent, practitioner-focused chapters that assume no previous background in the field. At the same time, the book offers path-breaking research and theory that will interest those who have been immersed in the study or practice of dispute resolution for years. The Handbook also offers insights on how to understand disputants. It explores how personality factors, emotions, concerns about identity, relationship dynamics, and perceptions contribute to the escalation of disputes. The volume also explains some of the lessons available from viewing disputes through the lens of gender and cultural differences.

Conflict and Dispute Resolution

Conflict and Dispute Resolution
Author: Mieke Brandon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

onflict and Dispute Resolution is a practical guide to understanding dispute resolution theory in the context of organisational, psychological and social work themes. It covers the spectrum of interventions; from the prevention of conflict, ignoring it, managing it through feedback, difficult conversations, self mediation, conflict coaching to facilitative processes such as dispute facilitation, mediation, concilliation and managing groups and multi party disputes. The book encourages diverse thinking about how conflict impacts not only on the individual, but also on relationships in their broadest sense, at home, at work, locally and globally. The authors show how to apply the theoretical aspects of mediation to skill building for conflict management, negotiation and mediation, and include discussion of assessment methods. Conflict Resolution and Mediation is comprehensive in its coverage of all the skills and processes needed by students, coaches, mentors and practitioners to help deal with dilemmas and become reflective practitioners. It is complete with case studies, clear examples and dialogue extracts to assist in becoming more aware and more effective at beign able to provide an appropriate process for parties to achieve their outcome.

Online Dispute Resolution

Online Dispute Resolution
Author: Ethan Katsh
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001-05-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780787956769

An essential tool for dispute resolution professionals as well as for anyone considering using dispute resolution in their lives and work, Online Dispute Resolution explains the many diverse and unique applications of doing conflict resolution online. The expert authors examine the tremendous growth of online dispute resolution-including its use by eBay and other e-commerce companies-and reveal the enormous possibilities to come, along with the many employment opportunities for practitioners in the field. They show how the online environment will affect the role of those who are concerned with dispute resolution just as it has brought changes to those who practice law, sell stocks, or run for office. For those who see the value of technology as a critical building block in the future of dispute resolution, Online Dispute Resolution will be an indispensable resource.

Challenging Conflict

Challenging Conflict
Author: Gary J. Friedman
Publisher: TradeSelect
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This revolutionary book shows how mediators and lawyers can help parties to escape the way conflict has them trapped and to work together toward meaningful and lasting resolutions that deeply respect their humanity. Through the telling of ten riveting stories of real mediations in diverse settings, the principles and methodologies of this dynamic approach to conflict come alive. In so "Challenging conflict," the authors also challenge the conflict resolution field to reach for more. Book jacket.

Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution
Author: Daniel Dana
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2001-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071399674

Successful management depends on the ability to quickly and effectively manage conflicts. Conflict Resolution includes hands-on information for effectively communicating with employees, disciplining and even terminating employees, understanding and using organizational politics, and more.

Dispute System Design

Dispute System Design
Author: Lisa Blomgren Amsler
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1503611361

Dispute System Design walks readers through the art of successfully designing a system for preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts and legally-framed disputes. Drawing on decades of expertise as instructors and consultants, the authors show how dispute systems design can be used within all types of organizations, including business firms, nonprofit organizations, and international and transnational bodies. This book has two parts: the first teaches readers the foundations of Dispute System Design (DSD), describing bedrock concepts, and case chapters exploring DSD across a range of experiences, including public and community justice, conflict within and beyond organizations, international and comparative systems, and multi-jurisdictional and complex systems. This book is intended for anyone who is interested in the theory or practice of DSD, who uses or wants to understand mediation, arbitration, court trial, or other dispute resolution processes, or who designs or improves existing processes and systems.

Getting Disputes Resolved

Getting Disputes Resolved
Author: William L. Ury
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1988-11-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book offers tested guidelines for designing a dispute resolution system that will help handle conflicts effectively on an ongoing basis - and avoid the damaging costs of attorneys fees, lost production, and emotional injury.

Alternative Dispute Resolution for Organizations

Alternative Dispute Resolution for Organizations
Author: Allan J. Stitt
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-01-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471643234

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is a rapidly growing field, due to its popularity as an alternative to long and expensive lawsuits. ADR involves resolving disputes of any kind outside of the judicial system, through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and other processes. This book is for people who work within organizations and are involved in disputes themselves, or for people who are required to deal with or resolve disputes. It covers how to set up a dispute resolution process in an organization.

Settling Disputes

Settling Disputes
Author: Linda Singer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2019-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367319489

Within the past few years, innovative methods have been developed not only to settle disputes out of court but also to supplement or replace the means by which legislatures, businesses, communities, therapists, and schools handle conflicts that once could be resolved only by litigation or force. Settling Disputes serves as an essential guide to the

Beyond Neutrality

Beyond Neutrality
Author: Bernard S. Mayer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2004-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787974064

In this thought-provoking, passionately written book, Bernard Mayer—an internationally acclaimed leader in the field—dares practitioners to ask the hard questions about alternative dispute resolution. What’s wrong with conflict resolution? Why aren’t more individuals and organizations using conflict resolution when they have a problem? Why doesn’t the public know more about it? What are the limits of conflict resolution? When does conflict resolution work and when does it not? Offering a committed practitioner’s critique of the profession of mediation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution, Beyond Neutrality focuses on the current crisis in the field of conflict resolution and offers a pragmatic response.