Managing Personality Conflicts in the Workplace
Published: November 19, 2021 | Last Updated: December 24, 2023by Vanessa Rose
Tag: Conflict Management Training
Should You Hire a Conflict Resolution Company?
Published: September 22, 2021 | Last Updated: August 8, 2023by Vanessa Rose
Running a team is demanding and ensuring business needs are met takes up more time than you have allotted to the job. In kind, conflict is demanding and can take a physical and mental toll on the individuals involved, be they on the ground level of the dispute or at the point of intervention. It...
Examples of Value Conflict in the Workplace
Published: September 10, 2021 | Last Updated: October 9, 2023by Vanessa Rose
4 Benefits of Using Conflict Resolution Skills at Work
Published: August 20, 2021 | Last Updated: July 14, 2022by Vanessa Rose
While your job may not include any responsibilities around conflict or people-management, flexing your conflict resolution skills at work can benefit you in myriad ways. Some people have natural skills and competency around de-escalating tension, communicating fairly, and identifying solutions. If you see yourself in that description, you may want to consider putting those skills...
Research Explores Use of Conflict Management Games in Resolving and Understanding Workplace Conflict
Published: July 28, 2021 | Last Updated: November 30, 2023by Natalie Davis
Summary of: GanshKumar, R., Sujatha, L., & Guru, K. (2021). Effectiveness of conflict management games and activities in workplace. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 12(11), 395-400. https://doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i11.5891 Background & Theory This article explores the benefits of conflict management games (and similar activities) to determine conflict management styles within a team in the workplace...
Research Analyzes Relationship Between Arrogant Leadership, Negative Gossip, and Employee Resilience
Published: July 13, 2021 | Last Updated: July 14, 2022by Noah Shaw
Summary of: De Clercq, D., Fatima, T., & Jahanzeb, S. (2021). Gossiping about an arrogant leader: Sparked by inconsistent leadership, mitigated by employee resilience. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 57(3), 269–289. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021886320917520 Background & Theory: Arrogant leadership is defined as the practice by which leaders engage in presumptuous claims about their competencies, have inflated...
Research Evaluates Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Conflict, and the Resulting Impacts on Performance
Published: July 7, 2021 | Last Updated: December 4, 2023by Natalie Davis
Summary of: Veerankutty, K., & Rehna, V. J. (2020). Role of organizational culture in resolving organizational conflict and its impact on employees performance – A critical overview. International Journal of Innovations in Management, Engineering, and Science, 6(3). Background & Theory This article explores how organizational culture and organizational conflict influence each other, and whether organizational...
Research Presents the Benefits of Intergroup Relational Identity for Organizations
Published: July 6, 2021 | Last Updated: July 28, 2023by Noah Shaw
Summary of: Li, Z. (2021). Intergroup leadership: Two paths to encourage positive intergroup behaviours [Master’s thesis, Western University]. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. Background & Theory: Social identity theory posits that people encompass a social identity, an awareness that we belong to specific groups. Nestled within the constructs of social identity theory is the concept...
How to Grow from Substantive Conflict in the Workplace
Published: July 2, 2021 | Last Updated: August 30, 2023by Vanessa Rose
Substantive conflict in the workplace revolves around how the work is getting done. Unlike conflicts that stem from personality conflicts or high stress, this type of conflict reveals gaps in performance as well as the root causes of those gaps. For this reason, substantive conflict can be utilized to strengthen how the team works together...
Tip #12: Address the Perception of Threat
Published: May 31, 2021 | Last Updated: December 4, 2023by Jeremy Pollack
This week’s conflict resolution tip is about the importance of addressing the perception of threat when in conflict. When we experience conflict within ourselves and with others, sometimes we find that the conflict stems from a place of threat perception. This threat is often directed towards one’s basic psychological needs or goals. For example, an...