Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office
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Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office
The Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office currently offers all services utilizing Zoom.
Recent Events
If you are experiencing conflict with a supervisor or another employee, we welcome hearing from you and are ready to listen.
Appointments
The Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office regularly offers services utilizing Zoom. As a precaution against Covid-19, CMDR services are currently offered exclusively online.
How we can help
- Current staff have access to both formal and informal options. All other university members may request informal options.
- Mediate departmental, workplace, and academic issues. Mediation is an informal, private, and voluntary process with outcomes and agreements created by the parties with the help of a neutral facilitator.
- Listen impartially to concerns and help repair relationships.
- Restorative Justice: Options for restorative processes that respond to harms, impacts and needs through community/team building circles, meaningful accountability dialogues and conferences, and reentry support circles following suspension, extended leave, etc.
- Navigate bureaucratic systems and policies.
- Specifically for non-managers: Resolve performance appraisal and corrective action disagreements.
- Specifically for managers: Design clear performance plans and collaborative intervention prior to discipline.