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Angelina Spaulding
OGL 498: Pro Seminar I
College of Letters and Sciences
Arizona State University
frame works is the acknowledgment of conflict. Power can be very volatile, rising and falling
with change in circumstances (p. 205), and all three frame works are aware that this volatile
nature of politics ultimately results in some sort of conflict that initiates change. However, each
frame views conflict in a different fashion. To the political frame conflict is not viewed as
something that can or should be tamped down or stamped out (p. 205), whereas the structural
frameviews conflict as an impediment to effectiveness. Human resource theorists can see
the potential in well-handled conflict [which] can stimulate creativity and innovation that make
an organization a livelier, more adaptive, and more effective place (p. 207).
The structural perspective, the human resources perspective, and the political
perspective all view power in different ways. Even though each has a varying view on power, all
three theoretical ideologies acknowledged that conflict is an inevitable aspect of organizational
life. However, all three perspectives have different opinions on how to engage conflict with
power.
Reference
Bolman, L.G. & Deal, T.E. (2008). Reframing organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership.
Jossey Bass: San Francisco