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Step 7: Identifying conflicts between insights
What innovative ideas should engineers come up with to detect the negative usage of
guns? What ways can they prevent guns having a bad reputation amongst the common people?
Engineers are the foundation of this question but people under organizational leadership will be
able to be the initiators of the topic. In order to solve the problem there should be more than one
discipline to work together. However, they may not always share the same ideas in order for
something to be achieved. Repko states in his book, Interdisciplinary Research: Process and
Theory, Integration can be achieved only between things that are different, whether those
differences are seemingly small or seem impossibly large (Repko, loc. 6966 of 13281).
Integration rises out of conflict or without it integration wouldn’t be necessary. In other words
these two disciplines will have a difference in assumptions, for Repko says in his book,
assumptions include what constitutes truth, what counts as evidence or proof, how many
problems should be formulated (Wolfe & Haynes, 2003, p. 154). So let’s look deeper into what
those differences may be.
Every discipline will have similarities but they will also have differences to resolve the
same problem. Olivia wrote in an article on Difference Between.Com that engineers focus on a
job at hand whereas managers or leaders focus on the team to accomplish the task. It’s more of
the individual vs. the group approach. An engineer is its own boss and they rely on their skills
and knowledge to prevail them through. Someone in leadership is only monitoring or assigning
the task that needs to be done. So they are relying on the engineers to complete the task in a
sense. These two disciplines work well together but this is a notable difference that they have.
Step 8: Create Common Ground

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In order to create a common ground for these two disciplines, there are techniques that
will them to synchronize. One of the techniques that Repko talks about is Transformation.
Transformation is used to modify concepts or assumptions that are not merely different but
opposite into continuous variables (Repko, loc. 7889 of 13281). Engineering and Organizational
Leadership have different styles but they can also be used interchangeably. An engineer could
very well be an Organizational Leader, for this happens quite often in the workplace.
Transformation is exactly the technique that is used in the industry and it is the technique that
will be utilized to answer the question stated about gun control.
References
Olivia. (2011). Difference Between Manager and Engineer. Retrieved June 27, 2016, from
http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-manager-and-vs-engineer/
Repko, A. F. (2008). Interdisciplinary research: Process and theory. Los Angeles: SAGE.