Workplace Relationship Assignment: Strategies for Conflict Resolution

This assignment delves into the complexities of workplace relationships, addressing key aspects such as conflict resolution, legislation, and organizational policies. It provides concise answers to questions about identifying support networks, resolving conflicts, recognizing signs of conflict, and the impact of legislation on workplace dynamics. The assignment also explores how to adjust interpersonal styles in response to cultural differences, problem-solving methods for poor performance, and the negative impacts of poor work relationships stemming from cultural and social differences. Furthermore, it examines how to utilize organizational social, ethical, and business standards to develop and maintain positive workplace relationships, providing a comprehensive overview of workplace challenges and strategies for effective management.

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Short Question Answers
1. What group of people, or networks in your chosen professional field, can you call on
for help, information and support? How can you implement the help they provide you?
Answer – In any field of work, there are sets of people who are involved with system
analyzing, adviser, accessing employees, and the members of the apex level management is
called for help, information sharing and supporting (Colbert, Bono & Purvanova, 2016).
The help provided by them could be implemented by potentially distinguishing the
working environment and extinguishing the issues from the work culture.
2. Give an example of workplace conflict and suggest a method to resolve the conflict
including how you would obtain feedback from colleagues to resolve the conflict.
Answer – One of the potential example of work place conflict could be pointed to the
discrimination related conflicts. An employee of the team who claimed to be minority are
burdened with most of the menial work and tasks in the group.
The basic method to solve the issue to equally dividing the task among all the
members of the group (Methot et al., 2016).
Obtaining feedback from the colleagues would be helpful for resolving conflict at the
work place. This process could be carried out by collecting opinions of the employees’
against the discrimination.

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3. Explain the signs that tells you conflict is approaching
Answer – There would be many signs that could be useful for understanding that a conflict
might come at the workplace. Signs like –
a. Dysfunctional meetings
b. Anger
c. Productivity slowdowns
d. High turn-over
e. Inappropriate communication
f. Anxiety
g. Clique Forming
4. Describe which legislation and organizational policies impact workplace relationship
Answer – Legislation and employment law plays an important role in regulating culture and
maintain work place relationship in any organization. Some of the legislations like Equality
Act 2010, Employment Rights Act 1996, and Trade Union and Labor Relation Act are the
acts which effects the workplace relationship (Lahiru et al., 2019).
5. Describe a situation where you would adjust your interpersonal style and
communication in response to a cultural difference. Describe the cultural difference.
Answer – In situations like diversity and cultural prospects are some of the places where an
individual are bound to adjust their interpersonal style of communication.
In diversity, various kind of people are working together in a place of work
environment. At that place, some of the communication style might be considered as
unethical or unprofessional by other team members (Lahiru et al., 2019).

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6. Describe problem solving methods used in the workplace to address poor
performance issues. How can you ensure these problem solving methods meet
organizational and legislative requirements?
Answer – A team leader in an organization could use some strategies which would help them
to ensure that there are not poor performance issue regarding work. Strategies like no delay
policy, having tough conversations, follow-up and follow through, documenting each of the
steps, and improving the delivery performance would be helping in solving poor performance
issue (Vaughn, Drake Jr & Haydock, 2016).
These methods would be meeting the legislations of the organization as it would be
monitored and controlled under the requirement of the organization.
7. Give two examples of how poor work relationship that results from cultural and
social differences would negatively impact the successful operations of an organization.
Answer – Poor work relationship would eventually be resulting in the operational success of
the organization. While having a poor work relationship among the team members would
eventually lead in the delay of work, which in fact would be hampering the production of the
organization.
Another example of poor work relationship would be miscommunication. Employees
have a low level of communication would eventually be leading to have poor performance
and impact negatively to the success of the organization.
8. How can you use the organizational social, ethical and business standards to develop
and maintain relationship?
Answer – Organization mostly operates within the social and ethical framework. Therefore,
the framework is established on the grounds of right and wrong factor(Vaughn, Drake Jr &

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Haydock, 2016).. At times when a person accepts in the organization, the social, ethical and
business standards are established already. The personal values, ethical standards and beliefs
should be consistent with those of the organization and the employee.

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References
Colbert, A. E., Bono, J. E., & Purvanova, R. K. (2016). Flourishing via workplace
relationships: Moving beyond instrumental support. Academy of Management
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Lahiru, R. P. S., Ranasinghe, J. P. R. C., & Wijesundara, W. G. S. R. (2019). Investigating
Intercultural Workplace Relationships: Hotel Industry Employees’ Perspective in Sri
Lanka.
Methot, J. R., Lepine, J. A., Podsakoff, N. P., & Christian, J. S. (2016). Are workplace
friendships a mixed blessing? Exploring tradeoffs of multiplex relationships and their
associations with job performance. Personnel psychology, 69(2), 311-355.
Vaughn, A. A., Drake Jr, R. R., & Haydock, S. (2016). College student mental health and
quality of workplace relationships. Journal of American college health, 64(1), 26-37.