Which of the following is NOT one of the five ways to manage conflict?

• A. Avoiding
• B. Accommodating
• C. Suppression
• D. Collaborating

Answer: (C)

Managing conflict is about choosing a deliberate approach from the standard set of conflict-management styles: avoiding, accommodating, compromising, collaborating, and competing. Each of these describes a different way to handle disagreements, balancing the task at hand with the relationship involved. Suppression isn’t a formal style in this framework; it doesn’t outline a recognized method for resolving a dispute and tends to mute or hide the issue rather than actively address it. Because of that, suppression doesn’t belong with the five established approaches. In practice, recognizing this helps teams in sport and recreation decide on a constructive path—whether it’s sidestepping a quarrel for the moment, yielding to preserve harmony, finding a middle ground, working together to solve the problem, or pushing for a win-lose outcome when stakes are high.