A clash of interest in the broader sense, or also conflicting aims, is present, if a situation is subject to the influence of each other against-striving factors and must between them balanced be adjusted. Depending on, how many goals stand with one another in the conflict, one speaks corners also of magic three, four etc. -.

A clash of interest in the closer sense is a special conflict situation, in which a material contradiction requires for avoidance. It can not be accepted from organizational, or ethical, usually occupation-ethical, reasons, there it counter productive in the sense of more highly outstanding values, interests or goals affects itself.

false conflicting aims

Some conflicting aims are not genuine, but rather a wrong dilemma. With such conflicts possibly even the respective parties believe in the fact that a conflict exists. There is actually however a possibility at the same time of achieving the goals apparently in conflict however this is not recognized with false conflicting aims by the respective parties.

Examples

Examples of interest conflicts in the closer sense:

• Attorneys are subject to a condition-legal prohibition to go in practice of their activity into interest conflicts
  • The so far common attorney of a married couple may not represent the interests of both marriage partners in the case of a divorce controversially.
  • The legal representative in civil proceedings will reject the simultaneous assumption of worth millions divorce proceedings in the family of the opposite side surely thanking.
• In many enterprises guidelines consist to endanger up to which value their buyers of gifts of suppliers or Dienstleistern to accept may, in order their independent decision with procurements not.
• Something similar applies in many situations to privileges or gifts by dependent ones.
  • Particularly in handling the public service their acceptance is criminally punished as corruptibility or advantage acceptance, and their hiring as bribery or advantage grant.
  • Generally in organizations advantages fall under it, the Vorgeordneten ("“superior"”) by subordinate one ("“Untergebenen"”), or supervision-requiring of report-requiring to be ordered.

In the economic policy one speaks of conflicting aims (uneasy triangle) between different overall economic goals, as for instance price stability, full employment and externaleconomical equilibrium. It is maintained that in each case two of the three goals can be achieved politicoly-economic.

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