Conflict at work can be overwhelming, but if you’re in charge of keeping the peace at the office, there are different tools and contexts to use that can increase your efficacy and keep coworkers working rather than fighting. Understanding these two different types of conflict in a workplace can help you navigate them when they...
Summary of: Kubíček, A. and Machek, O. “Intrafamily conflicts in family businesses: A systematic review of the literature and agenda for future research” (2020). Family Business Review. Background & Theory: Research in the field of family business conflicts is surprisingly uncommon, considering the large range of disagreements that can occur within family businesses. Disagreements such...
When you need to know how to resolve conflict between two employees, it’s usually already too late for prevention. You may have colleagues or employees who report to you who are struggling to get along. This can be due to personality clashes, differences in work styles and expectations, or a large amount of stress interrupting...
Summary of: Yuan, L., Yu, Y., and Liu, P., “Are teams experiencing relationship conflicts destined to fail: The role of emotions and work engagement” (2019). Chinese Management Studies. Background & Theory: Previous research has indicated the harmful effects that relationship conflict can have on employees in the workplace. Finding ways of confronting relationship conflict in...
Summary of: Trong, T., “Leveraging positive conflict in the workplace” (2019). FMP Consulting. 1-4. Background & Theory: Past research has divided workplace conflict into three sectors: relationship conflict, process conflict, and task conflict. Relationship conflict happens primarily due to interpersonal incompatibility. Process conflict occurs when there is incompatibility with roles, responsibilities, schedules, and tasks. Task...
Not all pairings of business partners are written in the stars. Even successful startups can experience the kind of growing pains that knock executives off their axis. Whether you’re running your own small business or working for an established company, there may come a time when you need to address a rupture in a business...
Work and stress are two words that very frequently go together. Assignments, meetings, deadlines, problem-solving – there’s no shortage of responsibilities at the job that can keep us up at night if we let them. But one area of work that can be quite stressful but over gets overlooked is workplace relationships. Workplace relationships stats...
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