Think of a conflict that occurred in a team you were a part of and analyze it. What were the main sources of the conflict? What interventions can be used to improve the quality of conflict a team?
As a consultant in one of the software-consulting firm in which I worked as a full stack developer with a group of four members and everything is going well from the requirements phase to testing phase. However, when the completed project which moved to the production phase we faced many problems with the production team. Because of the lack of knowledge, they have in the implementation and instead they blamed us for their teams fault. The main sources were one point is that the production team does not have the knowledge of handling the applications. Second thing is that lack of communication while the application is in developing phase. Another factor is gender difference in work place.
Despite the fact that we regularly see strife through a negative focal point, groups require some contention to work viably. Cooperative conflict can add to powerful critical thinking and basic leadership by persuading individuals to look at an issue. Empowering the statement of numerous thoughts; invigorating individuals to look for a predominant arrangement; and encouraging mix of a few plans to make amazing arrangements (Tjosvold, 1988). The key is to see how to deal with it usefully. On the off chance that individuals see how to do it, contrasts that emerge can bring about advantages for a group.
All conflict management research affirms that setting a safe environment is a basic component in fruitful administration of contention. In a safe environment, all members trust they will be regarded and treated reasonably. The creators of Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace display a model that incorporates three unique sorts of essential trust. One is legally binding trust or trust of character, which is trust in the expectations of others. The second is correspondence trust or trust of exposures. In a situation with correspondence trust, everybody is agreeable that individuals will share data, be straightforward, and keep private data secret. The last kind is capacity trust; when introduce, the members believe in others' capacities to convey on guarantees. That model perceives that trust can be hurt by disloyalty, yet in addition revamped.
Part 2: Creativity in Teams
Evaluate yourself using the three indices of creativity. What strategies can you use to enhance your creativity?
At Their Most Basic, Organizations Need Good Ideas (Talent), The Ability To Communicate And Refine Them (Technology) And The Wisdom To Not Refuse Them Out Of Hand (Tolerance).
--Rudyard Kipling
The three indices are talent, technology and tolerance.
Coming to myself when I deal with real time problems in work place I find my own ways to resolve the problem by acting to the problem at the root level and find many new ways to deal with the problem rather than going with traditional approach. Whatever the approaches or any new technological ideas I will be sharing with my organization and become the part of their technological advancement to build continues creativity in me. I think coming to tolerance I myself a tolerant person because of the situations when I am the head of the project with my team members I need to complete the project within the deadline but my team not at all supporting me at that time I only focused on the completion of project and got rewarded later.
A more extensive sphere of information enables you to relate more fluctuated boosts that you may not focus because it appears to be immaterial. When you at the same time center around numerous components, your brain will probably join this information into one of a kind and unique thoughts (Memmert, 2007).
On the off chance that you are in a situation to affect your workplace, make a push toward a more social climate that advances innovativeness. Research proposes that creativity enhances when a man's workplace is seen as an adhocracy. Wikipedia characterizes this as "any type of association that slices crosswise over typical bureaucratic lines to catch openings, take care of issues, and get comes about."
References:
Fisher, K., Rayner, S., Belgard, W., (1995). Tips for teams: A ready reference for solving common team problems. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Memmert, Daniel (2007). Can an Attention-Broadening Training Program improve Creativity?
Schepers, P. & van den Berg, P.T. (2007). Social Factors of Work-Environment Creativity, Journal of Business and Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 407-428.