Conflict

Conflict is a state of discord or clash in areas of interests, or fights between individuals, groups or organizations. Leadership and control sharing across organizations and individuals in and between communities are common sources of conflict. Such conflict often leads to breakdowns in collaboration. Good teams need to go beyond basic team building to become aware of team dynamics while working in order to foster a good collaboration system.

In our project there is no obvious human conflict as we have divided our work accordingly and we have agreed to a leader to go to where he will make the final decisions when conflict arises. Conflict resolution becomes usable when resolving conflict. Successful conflict resolution not only occurs by listening to and providing opportunities to meet the needs of others, but it also addresses interests so that each one in the group is satisfied with the outcome.

Other ways of conflict resolution include:-

- try hard to understand other person/s points of view

- listen reflectively to what they are saying

- look for common grounds of vision

- acknowledge their expertise

- focus on interests rather than positions

- separate people from the problem

However there are some sorts of conflict that we experienced with using UT3 as well as the setting of our overall timeframe. I think the conflict becomes that when we stop and think about what we have done, we could have organized shortcuts in doing things. For instance we could have built the entire model in UT3 but we chose to build it in 3Dmax to import it as we initially thought it would be easier to use a program that we are familiar with rather than one that we cannot use. But it turns out that when we import the model into UT3 we had to separate all the parts which becomes a struggle. Our chosen path yet divides our work in a more equal way, having each of us doing different parts, rather than to have each of us spending time find out how UT3 works at the beginning.

REFERENCE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict

Remuneration

Remuneration defines compensation or reward that is given for a particular task or service. It usually describes monetary payment or related entitlement that is paid by employers in return for work of employees. Remuneration can be in form of sustenance, accommodation, airfare, or medical insurance service as well. For large companies like Virgin Blue, they keep themselves apprised of the latest developments, policies and trends to remuneration matters which affect the markets in which the group does business. While that non-monetary remuneration includes anything like free parking, legal advice or flexible working hours.

In architectural terms, remuneration includes any payment made under a contract for services. Protection of minimum remuneration enables the pursuit of economic efficiency and better service quality, furthermore it becomes an incentive to provide high quality services and deprives the trading counterparts of the power to request for better architectural design. Planning and remuneration connects in the sense that for a project to run smoothly, associates need to be told of their reward according to what they have done in a contractual project. Without these disputes may arise when the end reward does not equal to what was contracted. Besides having to provide remuneration incentives, there should also be equity of remuneration because unequal rewards would contribute to disputes as well. People need to feel that a knowledge marketplace is not only fulfilling the organization’s goals, it is fulfilling theirs. They need to feel that their reward from collaborating on teams and projects, which may be run from the other side of the world, is equitable and aligned with their contribution.

In this course remuneration is paid in non-monetary form and it relates to the grades and verbal advice that we get for all the work that we have done. Within the group itself remuneration is a form of team responsibility.

REFERENCE

http://www.workplaceinfo.com.au/nocookie/subjects/PayandConditions/remuneration/articles/remuneration.htm

http://www.hrinz.org.nz/Site/HR_Info/glossaries/Glossary_of_HR_terms.aspx