Newsletter Article
Member Benefit
Impact of Decreasing Team Conflict
The cost of conflict in the workplace is well documented and ranges from low morale, reduced productivity and missed deadlines, to increased stress and reduced collaboration, which can result in quality problems. While some organizational functional conflict can enhance performance, research indicates that some types of conflict have a negative effect on performance. A recent study was conducted to determine how team personality composition and task conflict interact with performance.
Thu Jan 17 2013
Today’s rapid paced globalization and technology advancements have become the common foundation for striving organizations. These external environmental forces drive the need for continuous change in organizational structure, which involves technology, security, job rerstructuring, coordination of global markets, and increased diversity of team member demographics.