So you’re managing a team that can’t seem to avoid personality conflicts in the workplace? While these conflicts are inevitable in small doses, if your team is encountering them chronically, there are some steps you’ll want to take to ensure they don’t create larger and long-lasting impacts within your organization. Stress, low output, high turnover,...
Summary of: Lou Y. & Lu, L., (2020). A review of research on team conflict, conflict management and team performance, advances in economics, business and management research, 155, 321-326. https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125947095 Background & Theory There have been a number of research studies completed on the topic of conflict within the workplace. Conflict in the workplace is often...
Are you wondering how to address toxic work relationships that are getting in the way of personnel and performance? You might be in a pretty tricky situation if that question has crossed your mind. In some work environments, people are drawn to each other because they enjoy gossip, engaging in constant criticism, or chronically igniting...
Summary of: Rahal, R-M., & van Beest, I. (2020). Conflict and competition. Manuscript submitted for publication. In R. A. R. Gurung (Ed.), Research encyclopedia of psychology in the real world Routledge. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ykj42 Background & Theory This article offers a review of the unique factors that contribute to both conflict and competition, and how competition might...
Summary of: Nash, D. and Hann, D., “Strategic conflict management? A study of workplace dispute resolution in wales” (2019). ILR Review Volume 5 Issue 2. 411-430. Background & Theory: Past research has found that utilizing strategic decision-making within the area of conflict management is often driven by a desire to improve organizational efficiency, pair sustainable...
Summary of: Nneka, A., “Conflict management and organizational performance: A study of selected breweries in the south east Nigeria” (2019). International Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship. 1-22. Background & Theory: The increasingly intricate and complicated nature of day-to-day organizational operations easily allows for the infiltration of conflict. The inevitability of conflict in the workplace often...
One of the saddest results of ongoing conflict is the destructive impact it can have on relationships. What could otherwise be a productive or even loving relationship has taken damage that often seems irreparable. This damage is especially sad when it affects other innocent parties, like family members, co-workers, or large groups of people. While...
When groups of personalities combine under pressure in the workplace, at home, or in the community, conflict can all-too-easily arise. You might be called upon to extinguish the fire before it spreads. Like a blaze, disputes can quickly grow to impact other areas of the organization, build a permanent wedge between family members, or start...
In order to begin implementing effective strategies for conflict management, one ought to be clear on the actual definition of conflict resolution. Many of our clients come to us with interpersonal relationship problems in need of solutions, or with organizational and employees conflicts which require resolution; but they aren’t quite sure what conflict resolution actually means...
Small and medium-sized companies in the United States face nearly a 12% chance of being hit with an employment lawsuit. In some states, the potential for encountering an employee-driven claim is quite higher and much of the time, the charges arise from workplace conflict issues that could have been prevented. Specialty insurer Hiscox recent conducted...
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