1.1 Identify causes of conflict at work (12) According to a study by Bell and Hart in 2000 and 2002, there are 8 causes of conflict. Conflicting resources, conflicting styles, expectations, goals, pressures and roles, different personal values, and unpredictable policies. Poor management can cause conflict in the workplace. If the team don’t know the boundaries and goals, or if they are unclear of what job they are supposed to be doing, they will start to clash. I think this was the case in my workplace, due to naivety and lack of confidence.
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.
ATLANTIC STORE FURNITURE CASE ANALYSIS Organization Behavior 530 October 8, 2013 Words: 1684 The Atlantic Store Furniture case depicts a hostile work environment composed of woodworking and metalworking employees. The former entity is belittling the other by means of intimidation and harassment. The relationship between the two groups of the company Atlantic Store Furniture (ASF) has plummeted. The employee’s negative and non-constructive behaviors have escalated to a level uncontrollable by management. Previous efforts by management to find a solution to these issues were unsuccessful.
Ineffective leadership and low support from Management on a speciality project was identified as the probable trigger that instigated a series of problems at Corwin. During the analysis of the case the author identified several problem areas impacting the effectiveness and efficiency of the company. These problems range from a lack of leadership to people skills, communication and process issues. I analyse these problems under the following headers and also make some recommendations: 1. Structural problems 2.
Learning outcome/ assessment criteria Evidence type Evidence Outcome 1.1 S A Personal relationship is found between friends,family and loved ones. Usually defined by an emotional boned between one another instead of situational or geographical or environmental as is found in a working relationship. With a working relationship colleagues need to work together as a team and get along with each other to achieve a goal. Individuals should feel they can discuss issues openly and be fairly treated. Within the work environment you can build a good rappor with one another.
When unethical decisions are made, everyone involved in the corporation and its well being are affected in a negative way and will jeopardize the well being of the business. “Ethical responsibilities of an organization’s management are to follow the generally held beliefs about behavior in society” (Wheelen and Hunger, pg 58). An ethical role within the corporation is not mandatory, however it is practiced in most businesses would be giving employees notices of
The loss of production and or customers due to failure to deliver the employees or products you sell is also an indirect cost that affects the business in a negative way. One indirect cost many of us do not think of is the effect on the companies morale and that can take a toll on others employees especially the ones who are taking the brunt of the work that the separated employee was performing. Turnover and the indirect cost can even include more frequent accidents and higher injuries due to the inexperience of newcomers. If you take all of the cost, the indirect and direct cost into consideration, you can start to see the full scope and calculate the cost of the
The author says punctuality and efficiency is valued. People from a polychromic culture have a different view and being on time is not as important. Their meetings can start late and have many things happening at the same time. People from this culture feel many things are combined such as work,
This company is losing employees due to poor pay plans and new competition coming into the area. This stimulation gives a true work setting situation. The team sees the options and gathers information based on different variations. The group was able to use the extra help and information links provided to gain more knowledge of the company’s current concerns and issues. The main problem with the evaluation tools and techniques when encountering the company issues was hard to determine.
Other problems that BankUSA is facing are low employee morale and miscommunications within, which become evident when they try to discuss options for improving the surveys and employees give conflicting feedback. The surveys are vaguely