Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses Resolving Workplace Conflict.Download file to see previous pages... Validation of each team’s ideas is also essential in reducing conflict. Open discussion

Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses Resolving Workplace Conflict.

Validation of each team’s ideas is also essential in reducing conflict. Open discussion includes the sharing of ideas, by two or more employees in regularly scheduled meetings or work sessions. It also includes sharing of progress or keeping other groups updated. Lack of communication by co-workers can be viewed as secretive or uncooperative behavior, causing others to feel threatened. Rules set down prior to the beginning of projects that prohibit discussion of each others shortcomings, personal lives and other attributes are vital. Creating a more level playing field in which all employees are equal. It also encourages cohesiveness or unity. Working toward a common goal should be stressed as a new project is outlined. Goals should be described in detail, with periods for question and answer sessions available to all staff. Employees whose skills most closely match the various tasks or roles required should be identified. A study by Fortune Magazine in which several CEO’s failures were studied, revealed the “in seven out of ten cases, the leading cause of the executive’s downfall was the failure to put the right people in the right jobs, and the related failure to fix people problems in time” (Experience Based Learning). Such failures can also lead to conflict as co-workers attempt to work around each other’s shortcomings.