Sociology Report: Addressing Interpersonal Conflicts in Team Settings

This report, focusing on interpersonal conflicts in the workplace, examines the strategies team members can employ to resolve conflicts and maintain productivity. It identifies the root causes of conflict, such as lack of motivation and poor team bonding, and their impact on team performance and customer satisfaction. The report emphasizes the importance of mutual understanding, appreciation, and team dynamics to overcome challenges. It also discusses the negative consequences of intra-organizational conflicts, including decreased productivity and potential damage to the organization's reputation. The report references key academic sources to support its analysis and recommendations for fostering a more cohesive and effective work environment. The team members should not play the blame game, they must identify the issue and try to motivate each other to get over the problems. This will help the team to be successful.

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1) The team members will have to apply certain strategies that should be applied in the
workplaces so they can solve their interpersonal problems. There might be certain reasons that
might give rise to the interpersonal conflicts within the team members. Eventually that must not
hamper the overall performance and productivity of the team (O'Neill & McLarnon, 2018). Team
members must not play the blame game and give the responsibility on the shoulders of others.
They must get to the bottom of the problem and identify the issue that has been troubling them.
They should find out the time when this same strategy applied to the team had been successful.
They must try to motivate each other in the difficult situations (Prasad & Junni, 2017). This will
be the time when they should appreciate each other and get over the problems by the help of
mutual understanding.
2) There are certain problems that have been seen among those team members. Most of the
team members are not properly motivated. This is why they lack the grit to solve the issues that
have encompassed them for so long. Next, they must prepare for the challenges after making the
proper identification (O'Neill & McLarnon, 2018). The bonding between the team members has
been lacking in the concerned team. The members did not acknowledge each others’ contribution
and this made the huge difference in their works. They were very much self-interested and did
not care for the overall success of the team (Prasad & Junni, 2017). Amidst these challenges, it
was very problematic to be successful if the members are not willing to create the proper
bonding. The team dynamics and setting the target for the team as a whole might help them in
this matter (O’Neill et al., 2018).
3) The interpersonal conflicts within the members of the team will affect the overall success
of the teams. It will be most effective when the overall productivity of the team will go down.
This will hamper the company and its stakeholders. The customers will be completely furious

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because there will be no proper coordination between different members of the team O’Neill
This will be the most dangerous thing in this scenario because lack of coordination between the
team members will lack the support between the team members. Eventually no such creative
steps can be taken through which they could increase the reputation of the organization
completely (Lee et al., 2015). This type of intra-organizational conflict should be considered as
the measure for the massive challenge.

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References
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O’Neill, T. A., McLarnon, M. J., Hoffart, G. C., Woodley, H. J., & Allen, N. J. (2018). The
structure and function of team conflict state profiles. Journal of Management, 44(2), 811-
836.
O'Neill, T. A., & McLarnon, M. J. (2018). Optimizing team conflict dynamics for high
performance teamwork. Human Resource Management Review, 28(4), 378-394.
Prasad, B., & Junni, P. (2017). Understanding top management team conflict, environmental
uncertainty and firm innovativeness. International Journal of Conflict Management.