Which conflict management style involves low assertiveness and high cooperativeness?

Which conflict management style involves low assertiveness and high cooperativeness?

• A. Avoiding
• B. Collaborating
• C. Competing
• D. Accommodating

Answer: (D)

In conflict management, you look at two dimensions: how assertive you are about your own concerns and how cooperative you are toward others. When assertiveness is low and cooperativeness is high, you’re not pushing your own agenda, but you are focused on meeting the other person's needs and keeping the peace. This is the accommodating style, where you yield to others to preserve the relationship or when the issue isn’t worth insisting on. It’s useful for maintaining harmony or when the matter is more important to the other party or less important to you. The other patterns don’t fit this combination: pushing for your own goals means high assertiveness; avoiding both dimensions means low in both; trying to win with little regard for the other’s needs means high assertiveness and low cooperativeness; aiming to satisfy both parties equally would be high in both. So the low assertiveness, high cooperativeness choice is accommodating.

In conflict management, you look at two dimensions: how assertive you are about your own concerns and how cooperative you are toward others. When assertiveness is low and cooperativeness is high, you’re not pushing your own agenda, but you are focused on meeting the other person's needs and keeping the peace. This is the accommodating style, where you yield to others to preserve the relationship or when the issue isn’t worth insisting on. It’s useful for maintaining harmony or when the matter is more important to the other party or less important to you. The other patterns don’t fit this combination: pushing for your own goals means high assertiveness; avoiding both dimensions means low in both; trying to win with little regard for the other’s needs means high assertiveness and low cooperativeness; aiming to satisfy both parties equally would be high in both. So the low assertiveness, high cooperativeness choice is accommodating.