I was studying in my organizational behavior book for my exam tomorrow and one of the points the book covered was the intensity of conflict. Now, to give a little background, the book creates these really unnecessary, unhelpful charts that have boxes or graphs and such with very much useless information in them. The one about conflict went a little like this:
Exhibit 15-3 Conflict-Intensity Continuum
Annihilatory conflict......... Overt efforts to destroy the other party
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.........Aggressive Physical attacks
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.........Threats and ultimatums
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.........Assertive verbal attacks
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.........Overt questioning or challenging of others
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.........Minor disagreements or misunderstandings
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No conflict...........................No conflict
First, the word continuum just makes me think of Back to the Future and how the flux capacitor was the gateway to the space-time continuum.
Second, at the highest end of this continuum we have annihilatory conflict, which means, you annihilate your enemies. I like the word annihilate, it rolls off the tongue so nicely. Maybe I'll make it the word of the day.
I like how they state the annihilatory conflict is the overt effort to destroy the other party. As in annihilate, right? Total destruction.
No conflict = No conflict huh? genius.
The chart just uses two of the best words ever, annihilatory and continuum....made my day happy, among other things.
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Yay! Replying to a 2 year old post.
This is a widely accepted outline of conflict escalation.
http://books.google.com/books?id=jierjBPfZKMC&printsec=frontcover
Also, the book gives examples. Strikes, riots, and Wars. and given that annihilate is defined as "eliminate: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Basically, I'm taking a jab at a two year old post in hopes that someone has searched for the same terms I have, or that you receive an email noting that you've gotten a response so that you know that some random guy has a stick up his ass and wanted to point out, to the internet, that you're fucking stupid!
Pretty horse, though.
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