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Running head: GROUP BEHAVIOR

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Group Behavior in Organizations
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Kindred Healthcare Company
Introduction

This is an American based healthcare company that operates healthcare services such as
contract rehabilitation centers, centers for nursing patients and hospitals. This facility has its
main headquarter in the Louisville, Kentucky with an employee number of over sixty five
thousand. This 1985 founded organization was ranked at 4th position among medical facilities by
Fortune Magazine; having annual revenue of over six billion. Kindred Healthcare Company has
four major divisions. Its transitional health care hospital division discharges long term medical
care services while nursing and rehabilitation centers provide both short and long term services
for the residents.
The care management division provides hospice, home care and private duty services for
patients in a range of fields. Kindred Rehabilitation services comprise of both skilled nursing
rehabilitation services and hospital rehabilitation services to people within the United States of
America. Thesis statement: the success of any company depends on both qualitative and
quantitative leadership and conflict resolution efforts of the top management team of the
organization; determined by the nature of the business it is immersed in. This essay is addressing
key issues of leadership and how it relates to the general success of the organization and the
effectiveness of group members of a given organization.
Impact of Group Conflicts
Being a health care company, conflicts do play a significant role in determining the
productivity level of the organization. Conflicts are one of the many challenges that tend to cause
disorderly flows in the general process of conducting various business activities. Conflicts tend

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to have both positive and negative impacts to an organization. Below are descriptions of such
impacts associated with group conflicts (Miranda, 2017).
Mental Impacts
Groups experiencing conflicts tend to be psychologically affected by numerous problems
that happen due to lack of a permanent solution to them (Miranda, 2017). Members of the group
tend to feel that their personal and work issues are not being considered hence their professional
and personal lives are adversely affected. Mental incapacitation results to sleep problems,
appetite loss, overreacting and headaches among other heath implications to human beings.
Decreased Productivity
Kindred Healthcare Company should always ensure that there is limited number of group
conflicts within the organization (Miranda, 2017). Conflicts cause members within an
organization to focus on their personal issues as opposed to general process of work performance
within the organization. Members develop a fossilized culture of gossiping about the conflict as
opposed to discussing effective methods of increasing work performance. At the end of the day,
organizations become financially jeopardized substantiated by the fact that donors may withdraw
their support.
Violence
Group conflicts have detrimental impact to business productivity of the organization.
Members of the organization who are not at peace may end up engaging in physical
confrontations hence numerous legal suits emanate within the organization (Miranda, 2017).
Violence will cause some members to leave the organization in search of greener pastures;

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especially if group members are part of the executive team of the organization. There have case
of members leaving Kindred Healthcare Company wh...


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