Analysis and Future Prospects of the Research on Conflict Avoidance

Ronghua Luo

《Frontiers in Economics and Management》 2卷12期 (2021/12) Pp. 525-536

https://doi.org/10.6981/FEM.202112_2(12).0072

摘要

In an organization, conflict is regarded as an important interaction process, and the organization's style of doing things has a certain impact on employees' psychology. In the context of Chinese society and culture, face culture, doctrine of the mean, and power distance affect our attitude of avoiding things. Therefore, how to better use conflict avoidance to manage organizations is an important course in Chinese business management. This paper firstly defines the concept of conflict avoidance, and then combs and analyzes the influencing factors and outcome variables of conflict avoidance, then points out the shortcomings of existing research, and finally prospects the development trend of management research on conflict avoidance.

關鍵字

Conflict Avoidance ； Influencing Factors ； Influencing Results

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