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When Persuasion Fails: Coping with Power Struggles.

Peer reviewed

Moore, Patrick – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1999

Contributes to scholarship on technical communication and organizational politics and power. Shows how to analyze a power imbalance and succeed in ethically and diplomatically outflanking a more powerful gatekeeper. Argues that analysis of six power variables can help decide whether to go around a gatekeeper, force a concession, or take a chance.…

Descriptors: Case Studies, Conflict, Employer Employee Relationship, Interpersonal Communication

Staff Conflicts over Use of Authority in Residential Settings.

Peer reviewed

Watkins, Ted R. – Child Welfare, 1979

Descriptors: Conflict, Decision Making, Discipline Policy, Institutionalized Persons