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This is one of the best online introductions to Interest-Based Bargaining we have seen. It was produced by the The Fair Work Commission in Australia. Learn about a collaborative approach to bargaining – interest-based bargaining – and hear from employers, employees and representatives who have used it in their workplaces. Module overview This learning module…
It is estimated that employees spend 42% of their time engaging in or attempting to resolve conflict and 20% of Managers’ time is consumed with conflict-related issues. Masters and Albright (2002), in The Complete Guide to Conflict Resolution in the Workplace, point out that people thrive on conflict in most areas of their lives–football games, political debates, legal disputes–yet…
At KiwiRail, adopting a high performance, high engagement strategy has helped them boost engagement, increase productivity and improve health and safety.
“It would seem to be so self‑evident that maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with maximum prosperity for the employé, ought to be the two leading objects of management, that even to state this fact should be unnecessary. And yet there is no question that, throughout the industrial world, a large part of the organization…
Interest Based Problem Solving (IBPS) is more than just a conflict resolution tool—it’s the core methodology driving successful High Performance through Engagement (HPtE) Strategy® implementations. By focusing on underlying interests rather than positions, IBPS enables organisations to harness tension between competing priorities and transform potential conflicts into opportunities for innovation and growth. The Challenge: Balancing…
The use of Interest-Based Problem-Solving (IBPS) to engage employees (and their representatives) in solving business problems is gaining momentum worldwide. At its heart, IBPS is a form of systems thinking that provides a structure to a problem solving or negotiating session where instead of it being “you against me because of the problem”, it becomes “you and…