Most conflicts rise on how to reach the goal not on the goal itself. Therefore, unproductive conflict is preventable…with the right view, understanding, and collaboration skills.
What is your view on conflicts
Traditional View
Conflict in avoidable
Conflict is caused by management error in designing organizations or by trouble makers
Conflict disrupts the organization and prevents optimal performance
The ask of the management is to eliminate conflict
Optimal organizational performance the removal of conflict
Current View
Conflict in inevitable
Conflict arises from many causes, including organizational structure, unavoidable differences in goals, differences in perceptions and values of specialized personnel and so on
Conflict contributes and detracts from organizational performance in varying degrees
The task of the management is to to manage the level of conflict and its resolution for optimal organizational performance
Optiman organizational performance require a moderate level of conflict
How we want to reach our goal depends on our views on conflict. Do we have a traditional view or a current view on conflict? DThomas Kilmann Conflict Model
Understanding Understanding your own approach to conflict gives you a CHOICE about how to approach conflict. Smart and current companies invest in building skills in individual leaders and teams, ensuring that conflict serves as a prompt to change and innovation, not as a cultural dampener. Everyone uses all five conflict models at timesWe tend to use mainly one or two stylesOur preferred conflict style is dependent on:
How skilled we are in the use of a particular mode
The needs of the current situation
All the strategies are equally “good” when used in the right situationUndesirable situations develop when a conflict strategy is used too little or too much or does not match the situation
Creating Value:
Increasing the Size of the Pie
Collaboration skills
In conflict, we want to increase the size of the pie for all parties.
When companies take the time to develop insight and skills about conflict, not only does the company have a different “feel” to it, but productivity and innovation increase too. After all, most conflict stems from how to reach a goal not on the goal itself.
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