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A Case Study of Conflict in an Educational Workplace: Managing Personal and Cultural Differences
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Torpey, Michael John – Teachers College Record, 2006
This article is about conflict in an educational workplace setting. It reports on a case study investigating the emergence, development, and management of conflict among diverse native English speakers working as language instructors within a Japanese university. The example of conflict presented, which deals with divergent assumptions about the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Work Environment, Native Speakers