Dealing with Workplace Conflict and Challenges

Dealing with Workplace Conflict and Challenges

 

        In our daily life hustle between work life and family we will be facing many difficulties. Most of the work should be completed within the deadline and we will be facing many hardships for the same. The targets which we will do will go on increasing and the burden too increases. Workplace is an area which we utilize it to complete our work. In workplace, we will be completing our work by seating alone or by seating with a group of people. In this, each person in the person will have different perspectives. It's not necessary that every person in the group will have same opinion on a thing. So, the conflicts arise.

        The conflicts can have both minor and major things. The minor things are the persons will discuss and come to a conclusion of which one is more preferable and stick with that. But, when it comes to major conflicts it mostly leads to serious conversations and debate things. The final conclusion isn't drawn from this major conflict. This leads to the gap between persons and they tend to be the opposite in every thing they are being a part of. 

        Types of conflict:

• Interpersonal Conflict:
  These conflicts arise within the workplace's individuals and this is mostly because of differences in personality, interests.
  Ex: Misunderstandings between employees of a workplace
  
  
• Team Disagreements:
  These conflicts arise in the team when the team members are having different opinions on a particular aspect.
  Ex: Difference in assigning priorities in work
  
  
• Organizational Issues:
  These conflicts arise when there is change in the leadership.
  Ex: Differences in resource allocation
  
  
• Communication breakdowns:
  These conflicts arise due to poor communications leading to misinformation.
  Ex: Misunderstandings between team members in a team
  
  
• Work-life balance struggles:
  These conflicts arise when employee faces difficulty to balance their personal and professional lives.
  Ex: Workloads increase for an employee
  
  
• Performance issues:
  These conflicts arise when there are variations in performance expectations of an employee in a workplace.
  Ex: Employee with more favoritism received more recognition than the employee who worked very hard.

Impact of Workplace conflict:

    The conflicts in workplace will be of many types. Out of them few are given below:

• Decreased productivity:
  The conflicts in workplace can cause in the reduction of productivity as the work efficiency will be decreased. The individuals will start focusing more on the issues rather than the tasks assigned to finish the work.
  
  
• Impact on health:
  The conflicts in workplace will cause in the deterioration of the employee's health and this causes the work to be processed with less pace.
  
  
• Damaged relationships:
  The conflicts in workplace will reduce the rapport between the individuals and the work relationships between them will be destroyed.

Strategies for managing workplace conflict:
To reduce the conflicts between employees in workplace and increase the work efficiency between them few measures are to be followed.

• Active listening:
  The individuals need to keep attention on what the other person is saying to get a clear communication and getting what to do without causing any disparity.
  
  
• Empathy and Understanding:
  There should be an increase in understanding and empathy between the employees to gear up the work and encouraging them to do the work faster. This includes working on employees opinions.
  
  
• Clarify expectations:
  The team members in a team should have an clarity on what every person is doing to not to cause any additional burden on a single person and get the work done by the team smoothly.

      Hence, to deal with conflicts and challenges in workplace every individual must make sure the work goes right and everyone are doing their work as assigned. The conflicts will cause the work to be delayed and it will bring a big loss to the organization.