Título
Management of conflict within small and medium group teams in French organizations
Autor
Marco, Alexia
Resumo
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Conflict exists from as many years as humans. We deal with it in our public and in our
private life. However, we try to adapt the intensity of our emotions to every situation.
Conflict occurs between humans, that’s why finding a solution that satisfies both parts
appears as difficult or even impossible sometimes. The situation becomes even more difficult
at workplace as it could have an impact on the efficiency and quality of the employees’ work.
This way being able to resolve conflict is an essential skill for managers. Through this
dissertation, we establish the main concepts of conflict management, define the main
approaches and processes but also the tools and techniques used by managers to solve these
problems within small and medium group teams in French organizations. Our study is based
on a practical case study, eight interviews of French managers from different industries and
companies as well as on an online questionnaire completed by sixty-four French managers.
The main results from this research are that most of the conflicts in these companies are
based on personal differences, that compromise and confrontation are the two most used
techniques to resolve it and that more of forty percent of them never use third-party
intervention. Some limits have this way been observed. Indeed we recommend managers to
organize team-building activities to improve relationships between employees, to learn more
about conflict management and third-party intervention techniques and finally to come to a
clear agreement and analysis of the causes of conflict to prevent it.