MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 95: Group Conflict, Organizational Conflict

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

If someone isn"t aware of the conflict, then people say it doesn"t exist. There needs to be opposition and interaction to begin the process of conflict. Conflict is a process that starts when a single party things another party has affected or is about to affect something the first party cares about negatively. Conflict describes the activity that is ongoing when this interaction turns into a disagreement. People experience a gamut of organizational conflict over: There is no agreement over the role of group conflict and organizations. In the past, researchers argued about whether conflict was good or bad uniformly. These simplistic views gave way to approaches that show not every conflict is the same and these differing conflict types have different effects. Contemporary perspectives differentiate conflict types based on their effects. This means it is a constructive conflict form. Conflict hindering the performance of the group is destructive conflict or dysfunctional conflict.