Abstract This article proposes rethinking democratic conflict management by acknowledging the increasingly important role policy plays in it. As debate on health of democracy intensifies, research how democracies manage and absorb political societal conflicts becomes broadly relevant. Existing theories perspectives view through lens elections other institutional mechanisms, or they examine soci...

Policy based management plays an important role in the research community and in the industry. Policies can be in conflict to each other due to specification of policies by several persons or when targeting divergent goals. Existing approaches for policy detection and resolution are limited: they are only applicable for distinct policy languages. They are only able to detect certain conflict ty...

Introduction: Work-family conflict is a common problem among pre-hospital emergency technicians. The present study investigates the effects of applying time management skills on family-work conflict and work-family enrichment in pre-hospital emergency technicians. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, eight emergency bases located in Birjand, Iran, were divided into two blocks: block A a...

Researchers have been investigating the distinctness of Chinese conflict management styles, yet have to provide solid evidence for such differences. This study provides support for this issue by using multiple negotiation simulations to illustrate how Chinese people conflicts and how their preferred conflict management styles affect their negotiation behaviour and outcomes in business negotiati...