Conflicts at Work Place (1)

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Abstract Conflicts are very common in any given working environment. Although conflicts are considered to slow down the growth and development of a working environment, they can be at times healthy. In this essay, some advantages and disadvantages of conflicts are going to be explained. Conflicts in work place as a leadership challenge will be clearly explained. The key stakeholders as well as the main factors that bring about these conflicts will be explained in detail. Some of the steps that can be taken to resolve these conflicts are also going to be looked at. In addition, the special skills and competencies that leaders must possess to deal with these conflicts in a working environment are mentioned and explained. Conflicts in a Work Place In an organization made up of employees of different professions and leaders, conflicts (or work place disagreements) are not uncommon. Although these conflicts affect everybody in the organization, they mostly affect those people in leadership positions either directly or indirectly since they (leaders) are the ones who are supposed to know the course to take to resolve these conflicts. These people (in leadership positions) could be chief executive officers, operations managers, human resource managers and so on. The conflicts we are talking about here are likely as a result of disagreements between leaders, among employees or between employees and leaders. Generally, in any given working environment, these conflicts are completely inevitable and when they occur, they come at a price. At any given instance, when disagreements occur in a work place, they always pose a great challenge to whoever is concerned with resolving them. Talking of the stakeholders involved in resolving these conflicts, those people who hold leadership positions cannot be left behind because they
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