WORKPLACE CONFLICTS

 

The workplace can be described as any sort of conflict and it takes place within workers or managers between working hours. This concept leads to many disadvantages within the organization. Once organizations or managers treat employees differently it will lead to organizational conflicts. Sometimes this conflict is not only with two parties it will happen to more people within the organization.

General Reasons for Work Place Conflicts

There are often identify some reasons for workplace conflicts and since of below reasons normally happened workplace conflicts.

·       Management and the leadership of the organization is not strong

·       Sometimes managers, line managers, supervisors and leaders of the organization do different treatment to employees. Then employees are not satisfied and they are trying to miss their duties 

·       Not clear all the job roles – Organization has not created job roles. Employees do have a not clear idea of their jobs. Then employees are also confused with their duty list some duties are done some are missed. So, need to the proper job description for all employees

·       Training is not good – Some organizations do not offer proper training to employees. Employees do have not a clear idea about how their job is done. 

·       Communication problems – Organization has not a good communion plan with all the information and details not know all the related parties. This is a big problem to make good productivity

·       There are law equal opportunities – Organization offer different opportunities to different employee levels he is also one of the conflicts

The Impact of labour place Conflicts

When considering the organization if they need workplace conflicts there are often identified more impact to the organization and therefore the employees.

•                  Diminished work performance of the employees

•                  Low employee morale within the organization

•                  Loss Revenue of the organization

•                  Poor communication and miss-understanding within employees, managers and leaders

•                  Lack of resources and poor performance of the organization

•                  Increase employee turnover of the organization

 (What Are the Causes of Stress in an Organization, 2009)

Examples Regarding the corporate

When considering the current organization can identify common conflicts. Some of them as below,

•                  Poor communication and professional management of the labour force is seen as lacking

•                  Organizational structure

•                  Decision making pattern Retention rate is high

•                  Policies of the corporate (Reported during working hours, local policies and legal cases)

•                  Employee relations

The way to overcome them

•                  Set ground rules to every employee role

•                  Ask all the workers regarding their conflicts with their supervisors, managers and boss

•                  Ask employees to restate what others have said

•                  Need to Summarize all the conflict by human resource department and other managers  

•                  Discuss all choices of employees in a positive manner

•                  Combine options that participants agree. For this organization can make a commitment with human resource manager and managers from another department  

•                  Summarize all the possible options

•                  Assign further analysis

•                  Confirm all the parties agree with the solutions

 

Reference List

1.       Lytle, T. (2015, July 13). How to Resolve Workplace Conflicts. SHRM; SHRM. https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/070815-conflict-management.aspx

2.       What Are the Causes of Stress in an Organization? (2009). Bizfluent. https://bizfluent.com/facts-5612348-causes-stress-organization-.html

 


Comments

  1. Sandya December 18, 2021 at 12:56 PM

    Resolving conflict increase employee trust and employee retention. It is also good leadership quality. Good article

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