In workplace teams, individual IQs might average 140, yet the collective IQ might be closer to 85. So said neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Richard Ross when commenting about unproductive conflict at work. It doesn't have to be that way. One key is managing - and even encouraging - healthy conflict.
Conflict in organizations is not a problem. Well managed conflict contributes to creativity, strategic initiative, more effective systems and communication, stronger workplace relationships and greater commitment to the organization. Organizations shouldn't attempt to prevent conflict, but should instead focus energy on preventing unresolved or destructive conflict. The hidden costs of...
Loud or intense conflict is not necessarily destructive conflict. While it's reasonable to expect a certain level of decorum in the workplace, one should keep in mind that the degree of emotion expressed in conflict is due, in part, to cultural upbringing and socialization. If a person intervenes too early...
To improve college students' skills in resolving workplaceconflict, the authors studied the types of workplace conflicts that students encounter with peers or supervisors in part-time or seasonal work and with whom they discuss these conflicts. The authors found that most students report conflicts that are process or relational in...
Abstract John Holloway's Change the World Without Taking Power is an attempt to translate the Zapatista experience into Marxist categories-an undertaking fraught with many difficulties. This review interrogates the four key issues addressed by Holloway: the state, the nature of power, commodity fetishism and the meaning and relevance...
The workplace can be a real snake pit sometimes. With all that hissing and slithering around, it's often best to resolve conflicts before they escalate. Before things get out of hand, try using the following tips to resolve the conflict: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 Choose your battles....
Award ranks as highest recognition given to employers for their outstanding support, dedication to employees serving in the Guard and Reserve RICHMOND, Va., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion today announced that it will be awarded the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award,...
From Rosie the Riveter to the Beatles, five Utah students have become young history buffs -- and the kids have the prizes to show for it. The Utah students placed high out of half a million entries in the 29th annual National History...
Low morale among the nation's airport screeners may be compromising security and pushing screeners to quit their jobs, a controversial government report said Tuesday. The 29-page report by Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner is the latest to chronicle personnel problems among the nation's 48,000...
As a country, we can spend countless hours discussing rival teams of men kicking a piece of plastic into a net. But we are all supposed to be shame-faced about discussing the fantastically complex dramas called Reality TV. Well, I'm not. Have the...
Health system selects Lawson for its healthcare-specific functionality and simpler approach to IT management and worker productivity ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced that Community Medical Centers licensed Lawson Smart Office and the Lawson S3 Human Capital Management, Enterprise Financial Management,...
America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941-2001. By Richard M. Abrams (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xix plus 345pp., $ 35). Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years. By Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout (New...
Michael Gurley doesn't think of Shartel as an official employee, although her mere presence at his floral shop certainly does seem to please many of his customers. "The only time it's a problem is in the springtime when she sleeps right in front...
MENLO PARK, Calif., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's accounting and finance professionals are used to having a lot on their plates, but a new survey shows that growing to-do lists could be taking their toll. More than one in three (35 percent) chief financial officers CFOs...
Partnership to support job-readiness training for youth through Mayor Daley's Summer Jobs Program CHICAGO, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Chicago Department of Children and Youth Services CYS announced its eighth annual partnership with the Colgate P.O.W.E.R Preparing Our World through Education and Responsibility...
DC Regional Offices Claim Washington Business Journal's Award for Fourth Consecutive Year WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- International commercial real estate services firm Studley is pleased to announce that, for the fourth consecutive year, its Washington, DC regional offices were named one of The...
Transitioning Individual Contributors to Managers SEATTLE -- Impact Achievement Group introduced its Supervisory Basics workshop series, helping new supervisors/managers accelerate their personal success as they move from an individual contributor to a managerial position. As more companies strive to build management success, the...
Jihad Watch Good news: The war on terror is over! Charles Alien, the Department of Homeland Security's senior intelligence official, said last week that American officials should stop calling the conflict a "war on terror." Why? Because it offends Muslims. When they hear "terror," this...
Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR) today unveiled the industry's first Secure Hybrid DeliveryArchitecture SM for Web protection. Customers may now gain access tobest-of-breed Web security through solutions that can combine -- in anyconfiguration -- virtual appliance with hosted software-as-a-service SaaSand integrated hardware/software appliances. The end result...
MILWAUKEE, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls has been recognized by Ethisphere Magazine for a second consecutive year as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies in the Automotive category. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070930/AQSU001LOGO) Johnson Controls was measured on several criteria which include...
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