You are the HR manager at FoodFaire, a local grocery store. Your clerks belong to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which has threatened a strike in 11 days unless their demands are met. They are asking for a 12% raise, and you can offer them only 4%. You can almost feel the hours ticking by—this is a critically important negotiation, and neither party really wants the strike. The conflict-handling technique is most appropriate in this situation. A) avoidingB) compromising C) accommodating D) collaborating E) dominating

B) compromising

Explanation:

According to the scenario,

The compromising  conflict-handling technique is most appropriate in this situation. As they are asking for a raise of 12%, in this situation HR manager calls the meeting of workers and gives the chance to put their point on their demands. Try to understand their problem and the reason behind their demands. At that point Hr manager wholly examine the situation and try to negotiate with raise of 12% of their demands. So they are ready to do the work with that negotiable price.   So this reflects the compromising situation

According to the situation, option (B) compromising conflict-handling technique is correct.