Non-Employment Conflict Management Paper

Essay by Yates PhyllisUniversity, Master'sA-, June 2009

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Non-Employment Conflict Management"In both our personal and work lives, we negotiate to make decisions that are acceptable to everyone concerned" (Wilmot & Hocker, 2007 p. 243). The Wamayo Basin Management and Conservation (WBMC) Department is an entity of the federal government assigned with the task to formulate policies concerning water management, conservation of water, wildlife, and habitat. The Wamayo River and its tributaries merge and flow into the Pacific Ocean. The construction of dams on three tributaries over the past two years encourages hydropower projects and supplies irrigation to farmers. The areas most concerned with the new policy are members of the Salmon Survival Group for salmon preservation, Wamayo Department of Energy for hydropower development, Northwest Timber and Paper Association for logging rights, and the Wamayo Farmers Association concerning area farming (University of Phoenix, 2009).

Potential Non-Organizational Conflict IdentificationsOne potential conflict is the serious decline in the salmon population in the last 30 years because of commercial activities and the development of the three dams.

Hydropower is an inexpensive and non-polluting energy source that supplies electricity to the region and provides irrigation water to drier regions. Adult salmon swim hundreds or thousands of miles to their spawning grounds. Once salmon leave the ocean, they do not feed and some die from lack of stored body fat. Others are caught in fishing nets or by predators. Some salmon suffocate in polluted waters. Many salmon do not make it home because of the dams and they are killed in the hydropower turbines (An Upstream Battle, 2000). The construction of the dam's conflict with the salmon spawning.

The Farmers Association is a strong supporter of the development of dams. The dams are a significant asset to the agriculture in the region and provide irrigation to drier regions. Water for irrigation use requires...