Cape Trafalgar Case Study

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Suppressed conflict and why are they not addressed: According to the author, if there is a conflict between one or more parties and one of the parties is management, who is not willing to convey the problem or resolve the conflict. Such kinds of conflicts are suppressed conflicts. Few reasons for not addressing may be due to avoidance, tolerance, Employees fear of escalating conflict, Employee thinks that there may not be any change and they also fear of reactions from their manager. In Case Study "Cape Trafalgar" parties involved in the conflict are fishermen and two companies willing to build huge windmills at the sea shore. Suppressed conflict is on construction of windmills. These companies never involved in discussion or considered the concerns of fishermen and when fishermen approached many officials to express their concerns, they didn’t communicate back to them. Manuel Bustos is one of the officials for windmill production, he never resolved the basic issues of fishermen and he stated to his group to influence the fishermen by telling benefit of the project. In our case fishermen are ready, but government and wind organizations are still discussing and not cooperative to surface conflict. Problems occur if such situations are ignored: If the situations are ignored, it may turn even worse and employees refuse to work, poor coordination and integration. Employees become demotivated and in turn loss to the company since cost factor increases with these situations, there is will be no creativity and innovation in organization of employees. In Case Study "Cape Trafalgar" if the situation is the same i.e., ignoring. Fisher men may revolt against Government and Organizations. Already Fisher men are hostile towards the actions carried with them and this will take worse and there is a troublesome situation for Government if all the opposing parties in the

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