A Conflict basically refers to the struggle or contest between people with different or opposing needs, ideas, beliefs, virtues, values, and goals. Sometimes the conflicts may also escalate to really nonproductive results. One must always focus on resolving the conflicts and lead to the quality of the final products.
These conflicts may arise due to tasks, relationships, or some process-related issues. Following are four types of organization conflicts to avoid in workplace.
1. Intra-individual/Intra-personal Conflict:
Conflict can be intra-personal, where an individual’s objective and vision differ from his/her company’s overall vision. This refers to a conflict within an individual.
Intra-individual conflict arises from frustration, numerous roles that demand equal attention but is riot always possible to devote, and goals having both negative and positive aspects.
There are 3 types of Intra-individual/Intra-personal Conflict such as:
- Goal conflict,
- Conflict from frustration, and
- Role conflict.
2. Interpersonal Conflict:
The most basic type of conflict is inter-personal. It is between two colleagues – arising from a host of reasons ranging from differences in personality, work-style, and personal background.
There are primary sources of interpersonal conflict such as:
- Personal Differences
- Lack of Information
- Role in Compatibility
- Environmental Stress
3. Intra-group Conflict
When an individual is pitted against a group and is either unwilling or unable to conform to group dynamics, he or she invariably leavezs the team due to intra-group conflict.
4. Inter-group Conflict
When the conflict is inter-group, two teams are involved in a deadlock, endangering the successful completion of a project due to differences in group dynamics.
Reasons behind the inter-group conflict are
- Competition for Resources.
- Task Interdependence.
- Jurisdictional Ambiguity.
- Status Struggles.
Learning and understanding about conflicts are quite good, It will help you in resolving these organizational conflicts and come up with cost-effective solutions.
Keep Learning with EnglishBix!