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Organizational Behavior: Workplace Conflict
Conflict in the workplace is commonly seen, but some people handle it better than others. In my workplace, there is a lot of conflict with co-workers. Most of the conflict comes from the interpersonal relationships we have with each other, but some of it is also task conflict in that people argue over who is supposed to be doing which job or which part of a project. The task conflict can be easily resolved by assigning people specific parts of a job, and that is usually what takes place -- especially if the project is something where there could easily be arguments about who is going to complete certain parts of it. Some of the issues with co-workers are not as easily addressed, though, and those issues are all based on interpersonal relationships that involve people's personalities. When a person's basic beliefs and ideas completely conflict with another person's, but yet those two people still have to work together, handling conflict can be very difficult. Fortunately, I have learned to handle co-worker conflict fairly...
There are a few times when assertiveness is necessary, but for the most part it is important to be a collaborative, open-minded person. This works very well for me and my particular situation. With the kind of work I do and the dynamics of my relationships with my co-workers, being assertive would only cause a higher level of conflict that is completely unnecessary. It is tempting sometimes, when I see how something could be done better or could get handled much faster, but in the long run it makes more sense to be more open to working with others. That preserves the relationships I have with my co-workers, so workplace conflict can be kept to a minimum.
Avoiding people can definitely be the right choice. It is difficult when you have to work with them for some reason, but if you can stay away from them as much as possible…
Moreover, Bartlett (cited in Churchwell, 2003) underlined that, in the past, managing diversity was rather synonymous with giving equal opportunities to people of different gender or race. Nowadays, he emphasized that diversity meant "legitimizing diverse views in an organization, including those based in cultural differences." In addition to his remark, one could say that managing diversity under contemporary circumstances doesn't exclusively consist of providing equal treatment to different people. It also
Organizational Behavior In 1984, the movie The Gods Must be Crazy depicted a Kalahari bushman who finds a Coca-Cola bottle that was discarded from an airplane into the desert. The bushman does not recognize the bottle or the brand, and the situation leads to all manner of confusion among the tribe, who try to decipher the meaning of the bottle. Such a story would be rather incomprehensible today, that there would
Kizilos and others showed that diverse organizations portrayed reduced pro-social organizational behavior compared to homogenous groups, and Pelled and others, showed proof that increased standards of ethnic diversity are linked to more emotional contradiction in organizations. Riordan and Shore showed that in diverse organizations, employees are less considered to be committed or view that they are prone to grow in the organization. (Pitts; Jarry, 2005) With this contextual understanding we
Organizational Learning The concept of organizational learning has been around for a long time now but it was fully accepted and passionately pursued in the 1990s. It was at this time that many organizations recognized it and started involving it into their organizational systems. Due to this wide acceptance in this period, there were two consequences that came with it. The first being that it attracted the interest of many scholars
Organizational Politics ORGANZIATIONAL POLTICS Organization politics is not just part of every organization but it is also an important aspect of the business from the view point of CIO (Chief Information Officer). In both the long run and short run, CIO with his authority over the transfer of information will decide the decision making psyche of CFO and CEO. The CIO, CFO and CEO are three legs of tripod and with any of
Change Management in Public Organizations Change management involves an organization moving through adjustments to bring it into a different point in its development (Anderson & Anderson, 2001). Companies are almost always changing and growing, but when change management is involved these changes are calculated and they take place in a planned way. The goal is to move the company forward so that it can continue to grow and develop with the