It is important to first understand where conflicts arise. Conflicts can arise from things such as culture, poor communication, competitiveness, and differences in ethics, morals or personalities. Differences in culture, ethics and morals generally fall into a similar category. A persons’ culture usually has a lot to do with how their personal ethics and morals are defined. Poor communication is a very big reason that conflicts occur. Communication issues can be as small as not letting others in your department know that you need to …show more content…
The “International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences” lists the many different ways that conflicts affect individuals in a really negative way. The psychological responses could include: inattentiveness to other things, lack of interest in work, job dissatisfaction, work anxiety, estrangement or alienation from others and frustration. The behavioral responses could include: excessive smoking, alcoholism, under eating or over eating, aggression towards others or work sabotage, decreased communication or resisting influence attempts. The physiological responses could include: peptic ulcers, respiratory problems such as asthma, hypertension, headaches or coronary problems. (Omisore,