Conflicts at the work placement : March 2013

Conflicts at the work placement

Conflicts in the workplace

Conflicts mostly occur in any work placements. Usually conflicts happen due to disagreements, antagonism, opposition, or jealousy on specific topics at work or due to personal reasons. These conflicts could make the work environment very stressful, and uncomfortable for the employees.

Some conflicts at the work placements could effect the worker's ability to work successful, to it is critical to create positive environment in any work places. It is very important for employee to determine how they could handle these conflicts, and to avoid them to effect their effectiveness at their jobs.

There are several tips that could help any employer to overcome conflicts under any circumstances excluding personal problems.

THE THREE MAIN CAUSES OF THE CONFLICTS AT THE WORK PLACE

1) Disagreements between works are the common conflicts that occur in the work placements. People have different perceptions, points of view, and opinions from each other, at this case arguments, and conflicts are likely to happen. So it is very important to respect other's point of view, and try to understand their mentality rather than judge, criticize or argue.

work placement conflicts requires employees to find the common ground between each other, not to criticize their differences. "Try to understand the other person's point of view and how he or she arrived at it," advises Lankton-Rivas.
The differences in values, or personalities are not necessarily reasons that cause conflicts in the workplace, but the failure to accept, or respect these differences are.

2) POOR COMMUNICATION

Poor communication is one of the main reasons that cause problems between between employees in the work environment. This issue could be due to a difference in the communication styles, or due to a failure in the communicating process. There are several forms of poor communication, disrespecting others, rejecting any new ideas that are shared by different person, interrupting some one while they are trying to explain something or ignoring employees while they are talking, are examples of negative communication actions.

Lack or Poor communication in the workplace not only causes conflict but also could negatively effect the productivity and employer's effectiveness.

3) COMPETITION

unhealthy competitions in the work placement is a critical cause of employee conflict. Some industries/ companies urge competitive environments more than others. When high salaries or extra payments are associated to the employee production, automatically the workplace would experience high level of competition between employees. Competition is necessary because it encourages the employees to be more creative, protective, and more efficient, but it has to be healthy, some competitions create negative emotions between workers such as jealousy, hate, anger or envy. In fact, these feeling would result to unhealthy relationships which would critically negatively effect the company (business/ workplace).

Unfair/ inequality treatment, or payment is a good reason to create these negative emotions between employees.

Inappropriate competition discourages, and minimize the teamwork spirit. Therefore, managers are responsible to promote the equality between employees in the workplace to create a friendly environment.

8 TIPS TO MANAGE CONFLICTS/ PROBLEMS IN THE WORK PLACE

1. Identify the problems
2. Determine how serious and severe the problem is.
3. Listen and understand to everyone’s interests
4. Brain storm the possible solutions to solve the problems
5. Analyze the pros and cons of the possible solutions you came up with
6. Select the best option which gives you the best possible outcome/results
7. Prepare or arrange for the meeting
8. Make a note about the problem and the solution so you don’t forget or lose track of it.

Wednesday 6 March 2013