Nicholas is the production manager for a manufacturing firm. He has two supervisors who are experiencing conflict with each other based upon personality differences. Nicholas should have held a meeting last week to discuss next year's budget, but cancelled it because the two supervisors had a verbal confrontation on the shop floor the previous day. What conflict handling style is Nicholas demonstrating

Avoidance

Explanation:

Conflict or disagreement usually occurs when individuals or members of a group engage in an expressed struggle that hinders a task accomplishment. This occurs mainly due to the real and perceived differences that exist among individuals or members of a group.

Communication

Simply deals with how individuals coordinate actions and achieve goals. It is usually refered to as the process by which information is exchanged between individuals via a common system such as symbols, signs, or behavior. People communicate differently and when you don't understand each other ways, attitude or method of communication, conflict is bound to occur.

Avoiding conflict-handling style

This is a type of conflict handling style that is generally of little/low concern for meeting the needs of both yourself and your group members. It is the act of deliberately ignoring or withdrawing yourself and hopingthe problem will go away and letting others to handle it. It is only useful when facing trivial/temporary issues, no chance to get what you want, when others can, when people need to cool down/get more information etc. But it usually makes other people perceive you as uncaring and a conflict simmers.