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Conflicts at Work

Lack of teamwork, communication, and toxic coworkers and bosses can cause conflicts at work. Competitiveness between employees, inappropriate romantic relationships, poor job performance by colleagues, prejudices, personality clashes, and mobbing can also lead to workplace conflicts. Addressing the root causes and resolving issues as soon as possible is important to avoid conflicts from escalating.

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Conflicts at Work

Lack of teamwork, communication, and toxic coworkers and bosses can cause conflicts at work. Competitiveness between employees, inappropriate romantic relationships, poor job performance by colleagues, prejudices, personality clashes, and mobbing can also lead to workplace conflicts. Addressing the root causes and resolving issues as soon as possible is important to avoid conflicts from escalating.

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CONFLICTS AT WORK

1. Lack of teamwork
Teamwork is one of the skills most valued by recruiters, because when an employee
works in a team, their creativity and learning improves, their stress level is reduced and
performance and productivity increase. However, in cases where workers decide to go
on their own and teamwork is not manifested in the company, conflicts may arise.
On the other hand, a very individualistic mentality can lead to others being viewed with
mistrust, and in these situations it is easy to misunderstand certain behaviors and
attribute them to the desire to stand out above co-workers.
2. Lack of communication
Lack of communication is another cause that can cause serious conflicts at work,
because when an employee or superior fails to communicate (or send the necessary
messages) to other workers, problems can arise. Miscommunication can present itself
as misinformation or misinformation. In the first case, the information does not arrive; in
the second case, the information arrives wrong.
After all, the frictions that can be produced by the lack of communication can give way
to situations of ambiguity that produce failures and, on those occasions, the inability to
know who has made a mistake causes conflicts to break out.
3. Toxic partners
Sometimes, labor conflicts can appear without any intention, however, other times,
toxic people create a bad environment wherever they go, especially at work. Toxic
colleagues identify themselves because wherever they step they end badly with
everyone and create conflicts where there are none. They like to get in where they are
not called, they want to be the center of attention and they are usually the typical
people known as false and critical.
4. Toxic bosses
It may happen that it is not the co-workers who intoxicate the work environment, but
rather the bosses, either because of their poor management or because of their
personality, make your life impossible. In these cases, you may be at a disadvantage
when it comes to resolving the conflict.
In summary, toxic bosses tend to be: arrogant and poor communicators, autocratic,
inflexible, controlling and discriminating.
5. Competitiveness
It is common for many companies to pay their employees based on their
achievements. And while some companies distribute commissions among the
members of a team, others reward employees individually: depending on the sales or
the objectives set, it is one person who receives the commission. These types of
incentives can cause friction between workers, since the competitiveness that is
created brings with it conflicts between workers.
6. Love relationships
Co-workers can suffer from some romance, which does not have to be negative. Now,
in some situations, romantic relationships at work can bring conflict. Love relationships
can arise in the work environment as in any other place, but, to avoid conflicts, it is
necessary that they do not interfere with work.
7. Colleagues who do not work well
And of course, when a colleague does not perform as she should perform, conflicts
can arise. When someone doesn't do their job well, they will end up interfering with
yours, and possibly cause you to have to do theirs and work more. Companies and
organizations are dynamic systems, and a delay in the deadline to deliver a project can
cause the entire general functioning of this "living organism" to suffer. Nobody likes to
work twice as hard.
8. Prejudices (machismo/racism)
Prejudices are a source of conflict in different spheres of life, and also at work.
Colleagues who do not tolerate people from other parts of the world or with a different
skin color, bosses who treat their employees in a macho manner, etc. These are cases
that can appear in the workplace.
9. Personality clashes
Sometimes personalities just don't mesh and the spark jumps out of the blue. In
personal relationships, conflicts exist day in and day out. When such a conflict arises, it
is best to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
However, it must be borne in mind that clashes between different personalities are not
usually the most frequent reasons why conflicts appear in the company. On the
contrary, many problems that are actually of an organizational and collective nature are
erroneously attributed to the individual characteristics of certain people, since this is
"the easy option" when seeking an explanation for what is happening (it is based on in
an essentialist vision of workers).
10. Mobbing

Mobbing, also known as workplace psychological harassment, occurs at work when an


individual or several individuals exercise psychological violence.

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