Especially between two countries. When there is a scarce resource and another country has it and is not willing to trade or part ways with it, a war can ultimately begin. Between two people a fight can ensue over competition over the scarce resource. All of this despite awareness of how scarce the resource may actually be. Personality clashes can cause inevitable conflict especially between individuals.
I think this was the case in my workplace, due to naivety and lack of confidence. My deputy manager had very differing styles of work, so this caused a lot of conflict between ourselves, then amongst the team. She was very loud and blunt, to the point of being slightly aggressive and overbearing. I am much quieter, calmer, and more tolerant. Different personalities is a big factor in workplace conflict.
We often find ourselves criticizing the way a message is presented and ignoring its content or value. We don’t like the message being “read” to us, we find the speaker lacking in experience, or we don’t care for the negative tone of the boss. Our listening focuses on delivery and approach.
As a member of management it is even more vital that i am aware and up to date with all the legislation and guidelines as part of my role is to guide, support and influence other staff to do well in their own role. My own professional development does not only impact on myself but other staff, the setting and people who use the service. Continuing professional development is a life long process of learning which enables staff to fulfill their present or future roles more effectively as maintaining a high standard of professional competence. Every early childhood professional has a personal responsibility to develop and maintain their knowledge and
Group to analyze this case study and attempt to uncover the issues, resolve the problem with Mr. Singh, and ultimately, examine ways in which the problem could have been avoided. Since the peer appraisal process was the method utilized, we will first explore the general advantages and disadvantages of peer appraisals. If the process of performance appraisals is formal and properly structured, it helps employees clearly understand their roles and responsibilities, as well as gives direction to the individual’s performance. It helps to align the individual performances with the organizational goals and also assesses their performance. Specifically, peer appraisals can provide the most accurate and valid input about a fellow coworker.
This case describes problems with constructing cellular towers which would cause dysfunction of the company and inability to meet the turn-on deadline. Erik Peterson was not that effective in managing and leading his team which is shown by negative relations among team members and miscommunication was present between him and the rest of the team. There was no mutual trust and there was a lack of motivation among team members. One thing that slowed Erik down was his lack of experience in the cellular industry. Without the knowledge about how specific industry works, it is very hard to manage and lead the team to progress and be successful.
This system caused a large amount of employees to become clustered together on the ranking scale, and showed very little differentiation. It was very hard for the company to establish which employees were their better performers. While ranking may seem to provide an objective means of evaluating (since it can be used to assign numbers to people), the rankings themselves are only as good as the criteria used for ranking. They can be extremely deceptive, making it appear that there is an objective valid evaluation process going on when, in fact, there isn't (Bascal 2015). This ranking system also brought a certain amount of job dissatisfaction to employees.
In an organizational setting, it is important to resolve group conflict as quickly as possible so that the groups work can truly begin. This leads many organizations to implement team building exercises as a means of conflict resolution. There are several types of team building exercises some are designed to help members discover commonalities and others that focus on improving communication. Implementing various types of team building exercises can help an organization to resolve conflict among groups. There are many reasons for conflict among groups.
According to Blanchard and Thacker (2007), this is necessary to show how important learning is for the success of the company as a whole. (p.91) 5. Learning styles and personalities must also be considered to design effective training. Because we are dealing with people, the training should be design to match people’s feelings as well as KSAs. 6.
Effective communication, skills and qualities Evaluate your own ability to lead a team effectively-d2 When I completed my task the leadership style I decided to use to start off with was authoritarian, I gave clear instructions in a brief so that my team had a clear understanding of the task that we had to complete and what their role was in the team. By having this style we could work effectively and get all the equipment ready and start to assemble the structure in a good time with time left over to solve any problems that may occur. When a problem did occur I adapted a democratic leadership style, this was so that I had the input from my team and the ideas that they had to solve our problem, the reason I did this was so that if there