TITLE:
Management of Conflict in Non-Profit Organization with Shared Governance
AUTHORS:
Alexis Louis Roy, Christelle Perrin, Christophe Assens
KEYWORDS:
Conflict, Ostrom, Governance, Collegiality, Rules, Partnership
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.1,
January
27,
2022
ABSTRACT: In social and non-profit organisations with partnership governance, conflicts
are more numerous and more difficult to mitigate. Ostrom’s organisational
principles guarantee the stabilisation of such organisations, but we lack
studies about ways to restore their stability after a conflict crisis. Based on
Rahim’s works on conflict handling styles’ influence
over long-lasting collaborations, we hypothesize a linkage between Ostrom’s
organisational principles and effective conflict handling
styles. Our article explores this topic from action research based on the
comparison of three non-profit organizations: an associative school, a
Non-Governmental-Organization, a Think Tank, Each organisation is characterized
respectively by three conflict handling
styles that can each lead to their collapse. The rules of collegial governance
exemplify well, in the three cases studied, as variables that directly affect
the modes of conflict resolution of its members. This analysis opens up new
avenues of action for conflict management, whereby stabilization is achieved,
by changing its collective rules to move towards more collegiality in
decision-making.