Organizational Group Conflicts that inhibit achievement of important objectives

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ORGANIZATIONAL GROUP CONFLICTS

PPART I : NTRODUCTION

Organizational group conflicts refer to the disagreements that may occur in working teams within organizations (Robin , 2007 , 26 . This could happen in a single team , department or even between companies . The presence of these conflicts in organizations is counterproductive because they result to poor flow of information between players . Since this problem is mostly between employees of the same company (or companies under single parent firm ) it is vital that solutions

be developed and enforced at the departmental level other than waiting for the senior management to intervene . This problem affects all organizations equally , be they government agencies , profit or non-profit entities (Kolb , 1986 , 77 . Failure to arrest the problem at the initial stages could lead to declining morale among the affected employees and increase in fiefdoms within organizations . The later is mainly cause by tough wars that develop within organizations of all kinds . The type of group conflict issue to be tacked in this report is the one that affects profit-oriented firms . Subsequent sections of the report will address specific aspects of this organizational problem . The first section shall elaborate on the organizational group conflict present at this writer 's work place . Most of the issues to be address include personal experiences and reports from colleagues , departmental and company managers . This report shall thus serve as solution finding mechanism for the writer 's organization

Personal Experience

I am a business analyst for Stowe Woodward (SWC , a publicly traded multi-national manufacturing corporation . My primary job duty is to develop ways to capture key business indicators and design reports that portray the data in a useful format for management . SWC is owned by a company called Xerium Technologies which employs the IT staff . Because the IT department does not report to SWC 's management , IT requests were being delayed or denied . In response SWC hire me to perform the job duties the IT department was not fulfilling . I have developed processes that have dramatically reduced the time it takes all the departments to generate management reports . To add to the conflict I have been fulfilling requests from our sister company Weavexx and parent Xerium to develop similar reporting processes for them

The managers of Weavexx and Xerium have sent requests to IT to allow me access to their data . Several of these requests have been met with opposition . I have requested a meeting with my boss and the new VP of IT to discuss possible solutions to these conflicts . I believe this will give me an excellent vantage point to base my project on

There has therefore been widespread denial for employees to be denied access to data within companies owned by a single firm . This is unfortunate because the different units of the same parent company should be building synergy form diversity of talents among the labour force . But this is being denied by the bureaucracy that has been developing within sister companies . Indeed , the...