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P E Valentine

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PubMed2001

A gender perspective on conflict management strategies of nurses.

PURPOSE: To apply a gender perspective to synthesis of research findings on conflict management. ORGANIZING CONSTRUCT: The Thomas-Kilmann Mode Instrument (TKI), for measuring five conflict-handling strategies: avoiding, compromising, collaborating, accommodating, and competing. METHOD: Nursing research studies with the TKI and other studies are synthesized from perspectives in three gender theories. CONCLUSIONS: Findings were that two conflict management strategies, avoiding and compromising, were used predominantly by all categories of nurses. Possible reasons for over- and underuse of the remaining three strategies (collaborating, accommodating, competing) are described. Implications of these findings for nurses and nursing organizations are discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1996

Nursing: a ghettoized profession relegated to women's sphere.

Feminists have suggested that the predominance of women in professions such as social work and nursing has led to their identification with that other domain of female exclusivity, the housewife, and has reduced, rather than enhanced choices for women (Clifford, 1988). If so, has this identification led to a ghettoization that prevents nurses from joining and reaping the benefits from the mainstream of the feminist movement? The concepts of ghettoization and women's sphere will be used to explore nursing's relationship to the women's movement, the medical profession, and the larger society.

Canada↗
PubMed1995

Management of conflict: do nurses/women handle it differently?

Conflict management has been considered an essential aspect of organizational life. Initially, conflict was to be avoided at all costs, but more recently conflict has been considered important for organizational development. This paper uses a case study of conflict management of nurse educators as a basis for contrast with the conflict managing strategies of other women, staff nurses and nurse managers. Other studies found that women and nurses tend to handle conflict using compromise and avoidance, with competition used the least often. Nurse managers used compromise as their major strategy for handling conflict, while the staff nurses used avoidance. Theories based on studies of women's socialization are posited to explain this phenomenon. Several implications are discussed based on the premise that organizational studies of conflict management that explain men's behaviour do not necessarily explain women's (nurses') behaviour.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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Nurse educators'/administrators' ways of handling conflict.

Using women's standpoint research to analyze the data, a qualitative, retrospective case study was undertaken to study the group process among 27 female nurse educators/administrators who met from 1987 to 1990. The group was engaged in making major changes to integrate nursing education programs from a variety of institutions. Part of the research involved studying the group's conflict-handling strategies. These strategies were compared and contrasted with strategies found in traditional, feminist, and nursing management literature. In the traditional management literature, five conflict-handling modes are described: competing, compromising, avoiding, integrating, and accommodating. Although the research results indicated similarities between the conflict-handling modes used by the group studied and those reported in the research literature, there also were significant differences. One unique strategy identified was not competing. Competing as a strategy was rejected. Compromising and avoiding were used frequently by the group. Integrating, the most efficacious strategy, was used to resolve only two issues, whereas accommodating was not identified as an obvious strategy, although two aspects of it were apparent. One conclusion is that conflict management theories based on men's behavior do not adequately explain nurses' (women's) conflict management behavior. This study suggests that nurse educators/administrators may have a distinct approach to conflict management that has not been recognized.

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Nurse educators and decision making: a female perspective.

Quality of work life issues are major concerns of nurses today. Decision making is one such issue. This article is part of a larger case study of a Canadian hospital school of nursing that asked whether women nurse educators bring unique orientations to the workplace that have relevance for the administration of nursing organizations. The process of decision making, a small part of the larger study, is discussed in this article. The results suggested that women nurse educators used a cooperative, collaborative, highly participatory style of decision making that resulted in decisions based on consensus. The implications this female style of decision making has for nurses and nurse administrators is discussed.

Adult↗
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In conflict with conflict.

In a qualitative, retrospective case study to identify, describe, and develop a theoretical analysis of perceived group process among female nursing educators/administrators, the term "conflict," as traditionally defined in discussions of "conflict management strategies," was rejected. The term did not readily fit with the management styles of the 27 female nurse educators and administrators. Participants rejected "conflict" as a term. The word was deliberately avoided. In fact, conflict rejection was a specific administrative process identified as part of the successful working of the group over the three-year period studied. This finding indicates a break with traditional male-oriented literature and therefore may have implications for future research into conflict management strategies, especially into successful management strategies used by women and health care professionals.

Conflict, Psychological↗