Conflict Resolution for Inept Management Essay

Nearly everyone that works, reports to a manager of some sort, but working for an inept manager can make life difficult, since most people spend more time with people they work with that their own family.   Management is detrimental to the success of a team, but the leader must know how to handle conflict when faced with a difficult decision.   Unfortunately, there are managers that do not have the proper training or experience to delegate and guide their subordinates through the trenches of a hardship.   Inexperienced or inept managers can often lead their teams to failure and generally the haven for the worst type of working environment imaginable.   There are five main steps to conflict resolution model, which is assessing the situation, clarifying the problem, defining interests and finding common ground, generating options, and decision making and implementation.   These steps will be explained further in detail.
Assessing the Situation
      Everyone complains about his or her manager from time to time but there is a difference between every day griping and stressful frustration, just as there is a clear distinction between a manager with a few flaws and an inept manager.   An “incompetent” leader by definition is someone whose action destroys camaraderie, instill gossip, encourage dishonesty, and prevent people from speaking freely (Nicolaides, 2003).   Working under an inept manager can create an unstable and unpredictable working environment for everyone.   It is a fact of life, poor leadership is plentifully abound and are usually easy to pinpoint for most.   So why are some managers inept?   There are several factors that can contribute to ineffective management; some involving problems with the workings of the company and others involving shortcomings of individual managers.   It can be easy to label another person as being “inept” but one must take a step back, reflect and ask if their boss is truly inept, or is it resentment for taking orders from authority?...