Help! How Do I Lead In a Land of Conflict?  Office Conflict  In
today’s workforce, members of an organization and team come in
different flavors.  Today’s workforce is not only diverse
ethnically, but also in so many other ways as well.  Differing
Employees  Employees come from different educational levels with
varying specialty areas and work experience.  Employees can have
very diverse social, political, and religious views.  Some
employees are married with families and others are single with
no family obligations. Also, co-workers from different
departments view the work or project from varied perspectives,
i.e. IT versus Operations.  At times, with such a huge melting
pot of backgrounds and experiences come differences of opinion
when it comes to getting the job done. Or the conflict may not
even be related to the work, but rather a clash of
personalities. Let’s face the fact that eventually people are
bound to disagree.  With that, there could be an occasion
(hopefully not more than one during our career