Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT 1
Organizational Conflict
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ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT 2
Organizational Conflict
Organizational conflict is the state of discord that is caused by perceived or actual
opposition of values, interests, and needs between different people working together. Conflicts
may take different forms within organizations. There is usually the inevitable clash that exists
between formal power and authority and those groups and individuals affected. There are usually
disputes of how different revenues are supposed to be divided, how work is supposed to be done,
and the duration that people are supposed to work and how hard they should work. Further, there
are jurisdictional disagreements that exist among departments, unions, and between individuals
and management.
There are usually subtler forms of conflicts that usually involve rivalries, personality
clashes, jalousies, struggles for favor or power, and role definition. In addition, there is also
