Annalise worked with Perry five years ago at a different company, and they had constant personality clashes. Annalise is a team player who prizes loyalty to the team above individual accomplishments. She has been unhappy at Axon for some time and has been considering sending out her CV to other companies. However, when she discovers that Perry is joining the team, she turns in her resignation. Annaliseâs response is best described as an example of

According to Wood (2013) there are four main types of responses to conflicts. Responses can be active or passive, constructive or destructive. Conflict responses are:

outgoing response,
negligence response,
loyalty response and
voice response.

In this question, the conflict response used by Annalize was the exit response, which is categorized as active and destructive. It is defined as the physical or psychological leaving that occurred due to the existence of a conflict, for this reason it is categorized as an active response.

It is not always a bad response to conflict, as the person often prefers to get out of an uncontrolled situation than to make the conflict even worse. But it is still categorized as destructive because there is no resolution of the conflict, and there is usually a loss for one side involved.