Whenever you work with people, conflict is inevitable. The tension created by daily conflict either results in wasted time, decreased productivity, and poor decisions or the sort of internal competition that pushes each individual to do their best, if for no other reason that convince their coworkers that they can do it. This inevitable conflict [...]
Read More...When people who love each other work side by side day in and day out, there is bound to be conflict. But because they do love and need each other, they keep it to themselves, hoping it will pass. Because this and more confrontational conflict is inevitable, every farm has a conflict management strategy in [...]
Read More...I’m sure you’ve been around farms where there is so much tension in the air you have trouble breathing. Is is workplace conflict, disagreements legitimate or not about the way things should or are being done? Or is it just their nature to argue and complain about everything and every one? Either way, there is [...]
Read More...I am no accountant so ask yours how much actual money is erased directly from your organization’s bottom line when two employees can’t or won’t work together cooperatively. There is the money you were paying them at the time they were not productive, that’s a given. What about the money you lose because the people [...]
Read More...Conflict in the workplace, assuming it is an actual pitched battle between employees – fist fights out behind the barn for example, or between supervisors who start malicious rumors about one another, is easy to see. Even so the dollar cost of such obvious conflict is rarely measured. More often however it is the much [...]
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