Group and interpersonal conflict at Rocklands Secondary School : an organisational analysis to ascertain the implications for policy making
Master Thesis
1994
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Change, whether organisational or societal, presents a fertile environment for the development of conflict. The probability of organisational conflict occurring in schools in South Africa is heightened by the fact that the country is in the throes of national political change. The main force influencing political events in the country, democratisation, maintains its prominence when one looks at the causes of organisational conflict in schools in the disadvantaged sectors of the South African society. Rocklands Secondary School, the area of the research, epitomises the South African situation With regard to the occurrence of organisational conflict in the context of the wider conflict taking place at all levels of society in the country. Although the traditional views of organisational conflict - as an occurrence that is evil and needs to be avoided - are evident at the school, a large percentage of the staff regard conflict as necessary but feel that it needs to be resolved.
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Bibliography: leaves 162-171.
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Gasant, M. 1994. Group and interpersonal conflict at Rocklands Secondary School : an organisational analysis to ascertain the implications for policy making. University of Cape Town.