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1. Identify the source(s) of power available to you as the marketing assistant.
2. Based upon these sources of power, post your suggested appropriate strategies that you could use to resolve conflict within the project staff team.

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1. Identify the source(s) of power available to you as the marketing assistant.

The major source of power is the delegation of responsibilities and duties by the marketing manager. The marketing manager allows the marketing assistant to make decisions, i.e. it is a shift of decision-making authority from one organizational level to a lower one. Therefore as a marketing assistant, I will be able to make a decision making within the limit of my responsibilities that will achieve the highest benefit for the organization as a whole.

The second source of power is my knowledge, which is my personal power in today's workplace. Knowledge is my power as the marketing assistant (i.e., conflict management skills, personal knowledge, etc.). In other words, knowledge of myself, knowledge of handling conflict, knowledge of the group that I am working with, effective communication skills, etc. Clearly this ties into the two questions already addressed below, as the conflict management skills and communication skills are the types of knowledge that give me the power as the marketing assistant. Good communications skills provide me with power by effectively communicating my needs to other, helps me to manage conflict effectively, helps to communicate my opinions to other's etc. Managing conflict effectively (using the skills discussed below) gives me the power. ...

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