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CONFRONTATION MEETING [1 record]

Record 1 2017-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
CONT

Confrontation sessions may serve to pose two opposing views (the blacks confronting whites or vice-versa). It is at this point that the value of confrontation group experiences has been challenged. "What good does it do to let two polarized groups explode before each other unless there is some attempt to bring about better understandings between them?" is a question critics pose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
DEF

[...] réunion largement ouverte où s'expriment et s'affrontent sur un thème donné divers courants d'opinions et de tendances.

DEF

[...] réunion où l'on met en présence des sous-groupes d'opinions divergentes pour faire s'exprimer ces opinions et les comparer.

CONT

Tel chef de service commercial, constatant que les méthodes employées par ses divers représentants régionaux sont différentes, les réunit pour une confrontation fructueuse et un échange d'expériences.

OBS

On parle de «carrefour» particulièrement en milieux politiques ou culturels. (cf. La Banque des mots (BANMO), 1972, vol. 4, p. 170).

Spanish

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