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I would like to share a conflict I had witnessed recently in my workplace. I was not involved. However, I find it to be a perfect story to pass on in this paper.

It was around three o 'clock in the afternoon in our workplace and everybody had already taken their afternoon break when suddenly I heard some tumultuous noise 10 meters away from my desk. I could not distinguish immediately the source of that sound but I can conclude right away that there are employees who are fighting terribly as you can discern that the persons involved tried to knockdown each other as I heard shouting and poundings. In addition, I heard also the crashing and blasting of office tables and chairs, which possibly used on the brawl or just whacked by the two extremely
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I was the last one to get there as I phoned first our manager as well as the guards at the ground floor, which I had reported the incident happening in our department. When I arrived to the scene, I just saw bruises, broken noses, and swollen and bloody faces of the two of our co-workers. The two of them seems eager to kill one another. The fierce fighting was halt when the manager had arrived and with him was two of the company 's guard who had helped to mediate the clash. Later on cops came and brought the two employees to the police station with handcuffs.

Many had asked questions about the cause of the confrontations, which escalates the tension. What is the reason of the clash? Fighting and inflicting each other inside the workplace was an uncommon thing and we considered it unethical and unprofessional. Although there are times we heard arguments but not to the extent similar to that incident.

Both of these employees have a good long-standing performance in the company. In terms of sales, they are the top notches and they have good reputations to the company as well as the respect of their
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Employee B and employee A 's girlfriend are secretly dating.

Why? Employee A had allowed employee B

Why? Employee A and Employee B were best friends and because of his great trust to his friend he let him and his girlfriend to spend time with while he was busy meeting with his clients.

By asking the "five Why’s” we were able to get the root cause of the problem. They were fighting because of the girl. There are plenty of assumptions by fellow employees about the real cause of the problem. Some had assumed that it was because of professional rivalry, which end-up to untoward incident. Furthermore, there were other different versions came out which suggest variety of main causes of the incident. However, unknown to others, by using critical analysis we able to uncover the root cause of the problem of the two former best friends who happens to love to a same girl.

My counter-measure about the case: To prevent such incident like this, I think effective communication needed especially if both party are professionals. Do not let the emotions that will control individual decisions especially in choosing between good and bad. I believe that the confrontation, which resulted to using bare hands to mangle and disfigure their faces, could had prevented if employee A did not give his former friend the motive -- entrusting his former girlfriend to him in his absence. On other hand, if his girlfriend had a respect to him and to their relationship and if she truly loves him she will

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