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Assignment:

I require a three to four page report covering the topics of Managing Conflict, Power, and Politics in business with these points listed below.

• Why and under what conditions can conflict be good or bad for an organization? Why would you expect a high level of conflict in a mechanistic or an organic structure?
• You have been appointed to manage a large R&D laboratory. You find a high level of conflict between scientists in the unit. Why might this conflict be arising? How will you try to resolve it?
• Why is it important to maintain a balance of power between different groups of organizational stakeholders?
• What is unobtrusive power? Why is it so important?
• How can the design of the organization's structure and culture give some sub-units more power than others?
• Discuss how you, as manager of the R&D function in a cosmetics products company, might try to increase your power and the power of your subunit to control more resources in a battle with marketing and manufacturing?
• An interesting case example that might be used as the basis for responding to some of these questions is George Bush and the neo-conservatives who ran the White House and pushed the U.S. into the Iraq war.
• Conclusion and reference