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Looking into the Crystal Ball of Workplace
ADR: What will the future bring?
Annual ACR Conference
Minneapolis
October 9-12, 2013
Workplace Section Advanced Track
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General possibilities of the future
• Workplace ADR as reached its peak and will plateau
• Workplace ADR will die out as obsolete
• Workplace ADR will greatly expand in acceptability
• Workplace ADR will be taken over by some other
process
• Workplace ADR will be taken over by lawyers
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Workshop Discussants
Nancy Peace
Richard Fincher
Sharon Press
Cinnie Noble
Barb Beatty
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To audience: What is your concern about
the future of the profession?
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How far have we come?
Back in the 1970s, did we believe we would come this far
in social acceptability and academic support?
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The future of workplace mediation
Richard Fincher
Interpersonal mediation
Internal EEO mediation
Litigated case mediation
Three schools of mediation
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The future of workplace arbitration
Richard Fincher
Labor arbitration
Employment arbitration
FINRA employment arbitration
Hearing Officers
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The future of IBN and Facilitation
Nancy Peace
Interest-based negotiations
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The future of conflict coaching and
workplace conflict integrated systems
(ICMS)
Cinnie Noble
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The future of ADR Academics
Sharon Press
For the Academics and Researchers of ADR
For clients (parties and lawyers) of the ADR process
For leaders of professional associations as ACR, ABA, AAA
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The future for New Practitioners
Richard Fincher, Barb Beatty
Disparate impact: why do 20% of neutrals receive 80% of work
Lack of acceptance of less established neutrals
Lack of structured mentoring to gain credibility
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Is the future an integration of OD with
workplace ADR: the workplace neutral as a
“general problem solver”
Movement away from specialization…and away from lawyers
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Final speculation from the panel…
• Workplace ADR has reached its peak and will plateau
• Workplace ADR will die out as obsolete
• Workplace ADR will greatly expand in acceptability
• Workplace ADR will be taken over by some other
process
• Workplace ADR will be taken over by lawyers
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