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Team Conflict
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Team Conflict
Introduction
Conflicts tend to deviate a team from its original focus of achieving the set
organizational goals and objectives. In most cases, conflicts tend to arise due to people
having or raising different suggestions while in the right set of circumstances. However, how
the team handles or solves the conflict determines if it will work to the team's advantage or
will result in the failure of the team. Conflicts that come up due to the team members
differences tend usually make the team stronger and effective as compared to the conflicts
that arise in a team that has members with the same experience (Somech et al. 2009). The
most crucial thing in a conflict is to maintain a healthy balance of constructive opinion and to
avoid the negative conflicts that are disruptive and destructive. This paper aims to discuss
the categories and sources of conflicts and the various means of handling the various sources
of conflict.
Categories of conflict
There are there main categories of team conflict, this includes; first, Task conflict; this
a type of conflict that happens when the team members are unable to complete a certain task
due to their differing, attitude, need and behavior. In most cases, the task conflicts can be due
to the organizational procedures and policies, and resource distribution. Secondly,
Administrative conflict; this type of conflict occurs due to the team member competing on
who should report to the other. In most cases the group members tend to differ on who is
more qualified to effectively lead the entire team, this kind of conflict usually happens due to
the hidden interests of those vying for the leadership positions. This kind of conflicts should
be settled internally for example by the team members holding an election. Thirdly,
interpersonal conflict, this type of conflict usually occurs when a particular team member
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tries to interfere with another team member effort to accomplish the team goals. The
conflicts may also ...