The following items are tagged dispute system design.
Workplace disputes are inevitable. Employees air grievances, consumers file lawsuits, and strategic partners threaten to fire you and hire your competitor. All too often, such conflicts end up in the courts. In addition to consuming incredible amounts of time and energy, lawsuits often ruin long-standing relationships with suppliers, customers, and shareholders.
Increasingly, organizations are applying the
Harvard Law School’s News Office recently interviewed Harvard Law School’s Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) students and faculty about three of the projects on which they worked during the Spring of 2009.
Click here to read the entire interview http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/clinical-practice/clinic.html
Harvard Law School’s Negotiation & Mediation Clinical
Record numbers of Americans fear that our political process is broken—for good reason. Our nation faces unprecedented challenges, yet our politicians spend most of their energy attacking one another. All the while, no one in public life has offered a practical way to neutralize the bitter partisanship that paralyzes Washington.
The Cure for Our Broken Political
Dispute System Design (DSD) is the process of identifying, designing, employing, and evaluating an effective means of resolving conflicts within an organization. In order to be effective, dispute systems must be thoroughly thought out and carefully constructed.
In their article in the March 2005 Negotiation newsletter, “Early Intervention: How to Minimize the Cost of Conflict,”
Suppose you have been recently hired as the first full time staff member charged with handling employee relations. You are entering a large accounting firm with an unusually high staff turnover rate and several recent defections by company accounts.
Dispute System Design (DSD) is the process of identifying, designing, employing, and evaluating an effective means of
Please join us to learn more about dispute systems design and engage in what we anticipate will be a lively and thoughtful series of discussions. The Symposium is open to the public and admission is free.
Please RSVP by March 3 to hnlr@law.harvard.edu.
Featuring leading scholars and practitioners, including:
Ken Feinberg
Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim
Compensation
Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Every day groups engage in debate and reach decisions using Robert’s Rules of Order. Although written with good intent, Robert’s rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule often produces a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns again in the next meeting, in the
Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not, the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first laid out as Robert’s Rules
Speaker:
Francis McGovern – Professor of Law, Duke University Law School
Francis McGovern is a Professor of Law at Duke University Law School. He is a national expert on designing dispute systems for settling claims involving multiple disputants. In his talk, Professor McGovern will outline the basic principles of dispute system design. He will illustrate his talk
What don’t we know about conflict and its resolution?
What do we need to know?
How would we find out?
Some of the world’s best-known conflict resolution scholars and practitioners offer some answers to these pivotal questions in the new special issue of Negotiation Journal, the quarterly journal published by the Program on Negotiation in collaboration with Kluwer
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