Workplace Conflicts: Impact on Productivity and Health

Introduction Are you a hard worker? If you like most people you go to work to make an income to support your life, which is already pretty hard and tiring. During those hard working hours you will have to deal with workplace conflicts from co-workers or your boss. Harmony in the workplace is very important in increasing productivity and the overall happiness of workers. Workplace conflict will cause a tremendous negative effect in communication, which will lead to lower productivity and serious health consequences. In this paper we I will be talking about workplace problems and how they affect personal conflict and interpersonal communication.

Description of Relevant Literature Conflict can be perceived in different ways of positively communicating about a topic or negatively, but one thing that can’t argued is that conflict occurs in everyday life and there’s no way of escaping it. One form of conflict that occurs frequently due to constant interaction is in the workplace. Many people see workplace conflicts as just disputes between coworkers, when there are many forms of personal conflicts between those coworkers and bosses such as

People tend to believe if you leave the problem alone that eventually the problematic situation will resolve itself on its own. In “Conflict in the Workplace” by Mary Rau Foster (2008) she talks about having to pay a price for unresolved conflict when she says, “You may ask, "Why not ignore the conflict and hope that it goes away?" Because unresolved conflict costs. The costs include employee turnover and time wasted complaining about or enlisting the sympathy of others in the "wronged employee 's" plight. The costs may also include increased absenteeism, health claims, or stress-related worker 's compensation claims. Unresolved conflict can be costly!” (Foster, 2008,