People don't stop being people at work. Conflict unfortunately is inevitable. But organizational conflict theory says there are several varieties of conflicts within an organization--inter-personal ...

A unique type of conflict of interest may arise when members of an organization assist in the development of new federal programs or federal contract specifications, and that organization later ...

Conflict is a common part of workplace relationships. When people work together for more than 40 hours per week, there is bound to be conflict that arises between different parties. It is important to ...

Last month, we began our three-part series on organizational conflicts of interests (“OCIs”) with an article discussing the different types of OCIs and how they can be mitigated. Now, in Part 2 of our ...

In the first two parts of this series, we have summarized what constitutes an Organizational Conflict of Interest (“OCI”) in government procurements, and discussed OCIs’ importance in the bid protest ...

Conflict is virtually inevitable in many workplaces, mostly caused by real or perceived differences between colleagues and within teams. It is very rare that conflict doesn’t cause hurt feelings and, ...

If you have ever managed a team or worked on one, you know that conflict within a team is as inevitable as it is distracting. Many managers avoid dealing with conflict in their team where possible, ...

Conflict is analyzed as a function of the organizational conditions of school size, teaching specialization, and the centralization of authority. The inter-relationships among these explanatory ...

Widely regarded as one of the most influential management experts in the early days of classical management theory, Mary Parker Follett developed foundational concepts that redefine how organizations ...

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