SYNTHESIS DOCUMENT
Topic: How should a leader handle conflicts in team management in a company?
Introduction
The company can be defined as an organization of people of diverse origins who need to work together, often in a team within a definite time to produce a profitable result. These different people, called collaborators, sometimes have various interests, values, characters and attitudes towards a given situation in the workplace. It happens in the company that tensions of multiple origins befall within the teams and sometimes lead to conflicts on different scales. These disputes, stemming most of the time from a difference of interests can be mastered or managed, if the leaders or managers use specific methods or techniques. This fact
…show more content…
Glenn Liopis is a serial entrepreneur, owning many thriving industries, and his goal is to guide leaders to be more inclusive and embrace a new kind of thinking. He approaches the theme along the same lines as Gemma Reeves, with the acceptability of conflicts as a way to reconnect collaborators.
The third article is by Dan McCarthy "Five Techniques to Help You Manage Conflict in the Workplace" published on October 12, 2017. Dan McCarthy is an expert in leadership and management development. For over 20 years, Dan has helped thousands of leaders and aspiring leaders improve their leadership capabilities. In his article, he proposes a kind of conflict management toolkit, according to five types of conflicts identified.
We will present in the following firstly the attitude of a leader or manager as a prelude to any conflict, and secondly the arrangements to be made during disputes within the
…show more content…
It means that some effective leaders have demonstrated that they have had more genuine connections with their employees after some form of tension with them. It is understood here that some conflicts are not necessarily bad and can improve relationships and strengthen the links between the team members.
Also, although it is vital to deal with conflicts, we must be able to understand that it allows us to learn about the leadership and the maturity of the manager or leader and to improve team management progressively in an unfavorable situation.
Conclusion
Lastly, the three articles discussed that propose solutions and techniques depending on the situation or the conflict encountered, have given us some useful answers to manage conflicts in teams. These solutions or techniques are different from each other, and the leader or project manager will have to deal with the conflicts as soon as they appear and put in any work to cope with them by the existing techniques proposed to improve themselves and also achieve the goals set by the company or
They try to smooth over or ignore conflict to keep everybody happy, they see conflict as destructive and will give in to others to maintain the peace (Page 38), Bryan is a very good Illustration of accommodation he sacrifice his needs for the group, he share’s his lunch with John, he writes the last easy for the group, he maintain peace among the group when john and andy was arguing. Even though bryan is trying trying to keep the peace in the group, he is has problems with himself and he sense unfairness and inequality throughout the film. Collaborating is a strategy is used in a I win, you win Situation. According to Patterson James “ The problem-solving or collaboration strategy is usually the best approach to win-win negations and the problem- solving strategy is usually the best way to cut through conflict. Make a decision and work toward win-win deals (page 41).
In short time communicate with each team member. Have a conflict to make
Non-Management Interview My interviewee, Bianca Diaz, is currently a self-employed real estate professional. Before entering into real estate, she worked as a server in the restaurant industry. When I asked who her favorite manager was and why there was no hesitation. The type of management that came to mind was a fun, honest and participative style of leadership.
This highlights that there was a shift of conflict management style towards avoidance. In general the foreman generally frequents the resolving strategy whereby he prefers to get rid of the conflict. The subdominant conflict strategy of avoidance occurs at rare instances such as the last point where he just wants nothing to do with the conflict and washes his hands of
Conflict resolution as a field of study as indicated has formed hypothetical bits of knowledge into the nature and source of conflict and how conflicts can be resolved through peaceful systems to effectuate a dependable settlement. Morton Deutsch, was the first to form and understanding into the helpful results of collaboration as a scholastic enquiry. In his view, various variables like the way of the debate and the objectives every group in a conflict goes for are crucial in deciding the sort of introduction a group would convey to the negotiation table in its endeavor to unravel the conflict (Morton Deucth, 1985, p.24). To him, two essential orientations do exist. These are competitive and cooperative.
INTRODUCTION The word ‘team’ can be defined as a group of people working together towards a common goal. A team also generally is known as a group of people with different skills and different tasks, who works together on a common project, services, or goal. Then, the important thing in teamwork is ‘collaboration’, which is the act of working effectively with others to achieve a common goal. Collaboration acts as the lifeblood in the team, even the team is not large enough, but the collaboration is required.
The article reviewed, Boxer, Broker Or Backer, examines different conflict styles and negotiation tactics. The articles author has come up with her own terms to describe competition conflict style, collaboration conflict style and a modified accommodation conflict style. She describes these three different conflict styles as the boxer, broker and backer, going into detail about the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Negotiation is emphasized throughout the article as the ability needed to be successful in the modern work environment. It is suggested that we change the way we view work interactions and adopt a negotiator view of handling conflicts.
Hogan anticipated challenges and difficulties of working in a culturally diverse group. When there are cultural differences within the same group work, there is more room for clashes and disappointments. Hence, the collective background may not necessarily represent the ideal positive environment for higher productivity. Ting-Toomey & Oetzel explain conflict (as cited in Boyacigiller, Goodman & Phillips) as an undesired atmosphere of irritation, disturbance, annoyance and dissatisfaction caused by disagreement on goals, procedures, standards, results, different values or limited resources, between members of one group from at least two different
A conflict is known to be a common process within an organisation. In Tesco, conflicts are observed at different levels among members of groups and come of them are competing. In such type of conflict, group members pursue their concerns apart from the resistance of other employees. It may involve employees pushing their view points at the expense of others while maintaining the organisational resistance to the actions and activities of other members within the group. For instance, it may be observed that one employee feel his voice and opinions about some matter are being not considered by other members and management of the organisation.
Four models of the styles of handling interpersonal conflict in organizations have some similarities and differences. The styles elaborated in the four models mentioned are listed in a comprehensive. Following is a description of these models. Model of Two Styles Deutsch (1949) first suggested the simple cooperative–competitive model in the research on social conflict. Purely competitive conflicts are technically termed ‘zero sum games’ or ‘negative sum games,’ in which the positive results of one party are directly and equally equaled by negative results of the other as a result of their joint choices from interaction.
• The team leader’s inability to strategically place self from a manager who is supervising team members to now a team leader for the team. Managers in general is someone who has certain characteristics that differentiate their role from the team member’s role. In general managers have standards of expectation and performance from those managing, which are • It was further noted that the team leader did not want to engage further in discussions and simply stated it won’t work, because it was tried in the past and was not effective. the several approaches are important to increase cohesion in work teams…training in social interaction skills, such as effective and active listening and conflict management, can improve communication and cohesion…training in task skills, such as goal setting and jobs skills, improves the team’s ability to work successfully.” It is important also to note that mangers to some degree are also expected to expend, account for responsibilities related to the company’s goals…and according to Leigh Thompson achieving results directing the activity of others by setting challenging goals for personal and team accomplishment and by controlling their achievements.”
Introduction Conflict is unpleasant, but inevitable throughout life. In any situation involving two or people, conflict may arise. Conflict can be defined as, “any situation in which incompatible goals, cognitions, or emotions within or between individuals or groups lead to opposition or antagonistic interaction” (Learning Team Toolkit, 2004, pp 242-243). People come from different backgrounds and live through different life experiences therefore, even when working towards a common goal, they will not always agree. Major conflict that is not dealt with can devastate a team or organization (Make Conflict Work, 2008).
The functional view of organisational conflict always sees it as a productive tool, a tool that can allow staff members to increase their knowledge and skills. It allows member to increase their contribution to the organisation innovatively as they need to create a solution to the conflict that arises. Todays, more modern approach considers that the keys to organization success lie not in structure, clarity and orderliness, but in creativity, responsiveness and adaptability. The successful organization, needs conflict so that diverging views can be put on the table, and new ways of doing things can be created. (Flordelina B. Utleg, 2012).
Struggles, disagreements, and conflicts occur in the workplace primarily due to the differences in personalities and job responsibilities of the various individuals employed. The major contributors of conflicts in the workplace will be discussed along with some effective ways to handle and resolve them. Conflict should not always be thought of in negative terms, but as a healthy problem to be managed early to avoid escalations (Clark, 2015, p. 15). There are solutions and steps to follow for conflict resolution and pitfalls to be aware of when doing so.
According to Atteya, author of, Examining the Effect of the Conflict Management Strategies on Job Performance (2013), collaboration and compromising have effective outcomes with managing conflict. Collaboration focuses on the entire group and the goal is to reach a solution that satisfies all parties involved through problem-solving. Collaboration would mean that the team members will listen to each other, openly discuss areas of agreement and disagreement, and understand each other. This is very important for the conflict resolution