Section 21 Mediator Styles?Facilitative Versus Evaluative

• Library: Employment Discrimination 2008

Mediators, like judges and arbitrators, come to their jobs with their own unique styles of performing their work. In the professional literature, the styles of mediators are sometimes described as being on a continuum of being facilitative at one extreme and evaluative at the other. A facilitative mediator is one who explores the interests and needs of the parties in attempting to craft a resolution to their dispute and who avoids giving an opinion on the likely outcome of the dispute if litigated to a...