Common Response to Conflict

There are generally only a few ways most people chose to handle conflict and they are:

Avoidance:

Avoidance is a response where an individual will ignore, walk away and simply stay out of a situation out of the fear of conflict

Collaboration & Compromise:

Compromise is a response to conflict that finds acceptable common ground where all individuals involved are able to work together without addressing the core issue.

Collaboration takes compromise to a extra level, in that it explores the disagreement, underlying needs and wants from each individual and creates a neutral solution to the problem.

Accommodation:

Accommodation is a response to conflict where one individual sacrifices his own personal objectives and/or opinions. The individual will ignore his own objective and/or opinions to keep the peace and keep the team moving forward in a direction.

Competition:

Competition is a response where individuals will pursue their own objectives separately.  This is generally a defensive reaction by each individual to defend their own opinions and objectives.