Tuesday, October 21, 2008

9.3 Individual or Group Sources

“Conflict also occurs when people perceive that valued relationships or identities are threatened” (p. 285). This passage of the textbook motivates me to talk about one of the companies I worked for in 2007. Right now this company is facing hard times due to the economic crisis in the US, and it will potentially “close the doors” this year. Talking to a former co-worker she described the current scenario to me:

a) Employees do not respect their leaders;
b) The meetings are not productive because employees interrupt the speaker all the time;
c) Employees do not quite say what they are thinking;
d) Employees have no personal tone in their voices anymore;
e) Employees rarely agreed about anything.


Clearly this challenging moment that this company is going through has threaten relationships and identities. Hence, employees have minimum tolerance with all disconfirming messages they have been provided with.

Garota de Ipanema

1 comment:

violet said...

Well it is really sad, the way the financial crises is affecting this company and many others in united states. It is true that the current situation has definitely threatened the relationships. I think one of the reason being is that all the employees are selfish, i mean at the time of this crises they need to work together and try to find ways to make the situation better in the company. Their act shows that they are not loyal to their company and they do not understand that their conduct does not only affect the company but also themselves