Resolving Conflict In The Workplace

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Resolving Conflict in Workplace.
“Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability of resolving it effectively” All of us do experience some form of conflict in our personal life. As a matter of fact no two people in this planet agree, they end up stepping on each others’ shoes during the course of any exchange of ideas. Conflict inherently is difficult to resolve. Though it is the method of restraining the negative aspects of conflict while increasing the positive aspects, it is seldom consumed by stake holders easily. The focus on conflict management is to enhance learning, study group outcomes, including effectiveness or performance in organizational setting. An objective of this article is to portray the different types of conflict, …show more content…

And this is an unhealthy environment, which controls thoughts and does not empower those for alternative ways of thinking. This allows issues from a personal perspective to get in the way of controlling an environment, and it causes more destructive behavior. It is toxic.
Daniel Katz' theories of Destructive Conflict divide the source of conflict into three categories, Economic, Value, and Power. Economic conflict is basically a situation where the resources are in short supply. These sources can be many different things, they can be human resources, office supplies, budget, social loafing, they can be display fixtures, or company products.
When the sources are scarce in an organization, the employees tend to hoard these resources, as they never know when the access to these resources will become available. So, you might find individuals in reality watching and waiting for resources and are not made available to them by their team members. They will not provide their team the support necessary by sharing the resources that they've hoarded. This is clearly an enervated behavior, when this practice takes place; it is additional conflict between the teams, peers and …show more content…

a) An employee working part-time for a competitor.
b) An employee accepting free gifts and free products from Vendor.
c) Male Manager coercing female employee who reports to him.
Let's take a team setting, where an individual takes the power in always being the first to speak. Overpowering individuals in a dialog are enforcing their situation or their position or their decision to the rest of the team. It can also happen when an individual is dominant or control of a work unit where no one's appointed them for this position. But they've decided to be the one that does take the lead role even though it's not supported by anybody else on the team. Power is something that's very common in a work environment and I'm sure you've experienced it and have already experienced the source of conflict that it can cause.
Interpersonal conflict is between individuals. So, it can be something that is specific to two individuals, not necessarily a whole team. So, maybe it is a situation where two individuals just don't get along, or they can't seem to have a civil conversation. It can be something that they have brought to the work environment. When individuals bring interpersonal issues to the work environment, conflict not only exists between the two of them but it also can be very dysfunctional for the team that they work

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