Workplace & Commercial Disputes
Workplace & Commercial Disputes, Blog
Conflict is inevitable in life. At some point, something you do will irritate or aggravate someone you live or work with or see socially, and just as equally, you will be irritated and aggravated with someone else. When it’s a family member or friend, you likely can be frank with them, have a conversation, and work it out. It’s not always easy or fun, but there’s a personal element to those relationships that sometimes allows for easier remediation. When it
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation, Blog
Employees expect to work in an environment free of discrimination, and employers need to be prepared to mediate any workplace disputes with confidence and ease. In the United States in 2016, there was a total of 91,503 workplace discrimination charges. To effectively handle discrimination disputes, employers need to give each situation the attention it deserves by taking certain steps.
Determine the type of investigation needed
Each workplace conflict is unique and should be treated as such. Employers first need to decide if
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes
Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) refers to any means of settling disputes outside of the courtroom. ADR typically includes arbitration, mediation, early neutral evaluation, and conciliation. As burgeoning court queues, rising costs of litigation, and time delays continue to plague litigants, more states have begun experimenting with ADR programs. Some of these programs are voluntary; others are mandatory. Baltimore Mediation has assisted in and led the design of ADR programs for courts and agencies statewide and nationally.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes
Negotiation consists of our ability to understand other parties’ interests or needs, to be willing to ask questions and clarify issues, and to invite criticism, take risks, and determine standards to measure options. Baltimore Mediation’s mediators will help you reach fair agreements that will hold up over time, and help to preserve current and future family or business relationships.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Multiparty Mediation
Mediation is often thought of in terms of the resolution of disputes between two private parties, maybe three. However, a mediator can help in a great many situations involving large numbers of parties, and great issues of public importance, particularly before legal action is taken. The mediation of multi-party, multi-issue disputes at the local level such as battles over the design and location of public facilities, the setting of policy priorities, and the specification of health and safety standards, can
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Multiparty Mediation
Mediation for disputes involving civil litigation Baltimore is a necessary consideration before traditional court intervention. The direct connection between the parties and proceeding to the problem solving process creates greater efficiency. Solving the problem decreases transaction costs as well as delays in the judicial system, and the public perception of our legal system as well as the mediation participants view of their lawyers are all enhanced when working with a mediator from Baltimore Mediation.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Multiparty Mediation
Mediation is often thought of in terms of the resolution of disputes between two private parties, maybe three. However, a mediator can help in a great many situations involving large numbers of parties, and great issues of public importance, particularly before legal action is taken. The mediation of multi-party, multi-issue disputes at the local level such as battles over the design and location of public facilities, the setting of policy priorities, and the specification of health and safety standards, can
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Whether involving two executives or multiple partners, mediation is often used when an event or series of interactions over time occur which create stress or conflict in the working business relationship. It may be the fee formula, the reimbursement structure, handling of a certain client, new business matters previously unanticipated, a change in a business plan, a change in staffing, a personal crisis for one of the professionals or a clash of personalities. It may also be a group of
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
As a dean, department chair, Headmaster or Headmistress or faculty member or teacher, you may contact Baltimore Mediation for those conflicts that arise between faculty, between departments or which have been festering for years and have gone unaddressed. Mediation is an alternative that is private, confidential and focused on quality dialogue and informed decision making.
Example: A faculty member is up for tenure and has complained that she is being discriminated against in the selection process.
Example: For years there have been
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Baltimore partnership dissolutions or potential dissolutions are rarely easy and often highly emotional. Whether involving two or more partners–family members, friends or business associates–mediation is ideal for partnership changes and potential dissolutions. The partners may either no longer be talking productively to each other or they may be getting along well but know they have to face difficult decision making and, in either event, want to ensure and preserve their relationship and personal integrity after the buyout, dissolution or reconfiguration.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Baltimore Mediation’s transformative approach to Baltimore workplace disputes with a focus on the quality of the interaction and dialogue is especially appropriate within an organizational setting that by its very nature has many divergent factors and stakeholders. The organized and cohesive workplace has, by definition, the need for a process which promotes working with each other and maintaining creativity and productivity as well as respectful relationships.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
In every business relationship there is the potential for crises to arise around contractual agreements or daily business operations. This crisis brings about anger, fear, confusion, vulnerability, defensiveness and suspicion between all parties. As importantly, the situation often negatively affects production and often brings work to a standstill in some areas. If this has or is happening within your company, mediation is your best remedy.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
The protection of individuals against discrimination is the goal of many existing federal and state laws, as well as countless employment dispute resolution programs. While there are overt acts of discrimination, acts of subtle or unconscious discrimination are prevalent and just as damaging. Worse, because these acts are largely unintentional, they usually don’t fall under existing antidiscrimination laws. It is this type of discrimination for which the early use of mediation can be very helpful and effective.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Disputes often occur in the construction industry. Missed deadlines and contract infringements wreak havoc on business and long-lasting working relationships. Parties within the dispute risk future business and customers due to impasse over facts and legal procedures that result in costly legal battles. Focus is no longer on project completion but on interest-based disputing. Continuing in this manner could have devastating effects that are irreparable.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Mediation in hospitals or malpractice disputes not only helps to settle claims before they go to court, but also provides the forum for patients and doctors to share all the facts and their feelings about the situation – something that could never happen in a court case.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
As the population ages, it is more common than ever to hear that a friend or family member is struggling with difficult care-giving decisions for an older loved one in a nursing home or care facility. While mediation has proven to be an effective process for clarifying issues and settling other types of disputes, until now institutionalized adults and their families facing conflict have not enjoyed access to the mediation process. Long term care mediation encourages conflict resolution through neutral
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Ranging in complexity, real estate disputes may include disagreements between real estate owner/real estate developer; homeowner/homeowner association; property owner/city government; landlord/tenant; buyer/seller; broker/agent; broker/broker; and contractor/client, to name a few. Real estate disputes usually involve two or more parties and often include the attorneys of the disputing parties. Resolution of these disputes through the legal system is often time consuming and lengthy in nature. Most real estate matters are time of the essence situations.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Mediation for businesses and the workplace is a process that more and more companies are using to resolve, in an efficient and peaceful manner, client-customer and stakeholder disputes and employee complaints before they become broken relationships or formal grievances. Organizational facilitation relies on the same principles of mediation to resolve disagreements and disputes between groups, departments and other bodies.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Baltimore Mediation offers a transformative approach to congregational and church conflict. This approach is both client centered and organizationally oriented, recognizing the need for a healthy organization to function well within as well as with outside constituencies. The focus is to create opportunities within the system for one-on-one interactions as well as group interactions that foster a greater degree of satisfaction with the communication and, in turn, promote “upstream effects” for the whole which include confidence in the responsiveness of
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