To foster workplace collaboration, first manage the conflict: Dr Sam Hardy

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This post from In The Black on workplace conflict features and interview with our Dr Sam Hardy.

“When conflict escalates to a point where parties are not communicating with each other, and worse – when they start talking very negatively to colleagues and friends about the other person, the situation becomes unproductive for the people in conflict and those around them,” says Samantha Hardy, principal at Conflict Coaching International and an expert on conflict management and resolution.

Read more in the 1 August piece.

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About Associate Professor Becky Batagol

Dr Becky Batagol is an Associate Professor of law at the Faculty of Law, Monash University. She is a researcher and teacher with a focus on gender, family law, family violence, non-adversarial justice, dispute resolution, gender, child protection and constitutional law. Becky is the co-author of Non-Adversarial Justice (2nd ed, 2014), Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law? The Case of Family Mediation (2011) and the author of many academic articles. Becky, alongside Dr Jessica Mant, is the President of the Australian Dispute Resolution Research Network in 2024-25.

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