Part One: Warm Up
Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).
- Have you ever had to deal with a conflict at work, home, or school? What was the conflict over? How did you deal with it?
- How do you generally deal with conflicts with others in your life? Are you comfortable confronting problems?
Part Two: Vocabulary and Listening
Exercise
Part Three: Further Discussion
- What other kinds of conflict do people face in the workplace?
- Do you think it’s OK for management to give employees more work than they think they can handle? Why or why not? How about taking away vacation time?
- Do you think Tim’s situation is harassment? What do you think someone in a situation like Tim's should do?