Organizational Behavior: Workplace Conflict

Conflict in the workplace is commonly seen, but some people handle it better than others. In my workplace, there is a lot of conflict with co-workers. Most of the conflict comes from the interpersonal relationships we have with each other, but some of it is also task conflict in that people argue over who is supposed to be doing which job or which part of a project. The task conflict can be easily resolved by assigning people specific parts of a job, and that is usually what takes place -- especially if the project is something where there could easily be arguments about who is going to complete certain parts of it. Some of the issues with co-workers are not as easily addressed, though, and those issues are all based on interpersonal relationships that involve people's personalities. When a person's basic beliefs and ideas completely conflict...
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