Workplace conflict can hurt productivity, morale and retention if it’s not handled well. Learn practical strategies to manage and resolve conflict effectively.

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Can workplace conflict be healthy? It might seem counterintuitive when so many of us try to avoid it. Let’s say you have a difference of opinion with a colleague. You might try ignoring the issue, ...

People generally think of conflict as a negative experience and want to either avoid it or suppress it. But conflict is a fact of life any time people are working together—and it has benefits as well.

One of the most common challenges nearly all of us experience in our workplace is conflict. In fact, 85% of workers experience conflict at work on some level and research shows that people spend an ...

Facing conflict is never fun, whether it’s at work, in our personal lives, on social media or elsewhere. When we encounter a disagreement, we can easily blur the lines between logic and emotion and ...

On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln could have appointed partisans to lead the nation during a looming crisis. Instead, he created a cabinet ...

Conflict is uncomfortable-there is no way around it. However, research suggests that, contrary to intuition and conventional beliefs, conflict can actually be healthy at work if it is performed in the ...

When you get a group of people together day after day, conflict is inevitable. The employees you so carefully screened during hiring interviews aren't immune, either. They might have had the perfect ...

A Harvard negotiation expert advises people to embrace conflict at work to have better job satisfaction. William Ury told Forbes that "a productive work environment should not suppress conflict." ...

Employees may think the solution to workplace conflict is to avoid it at all costs, but actually, the opposite is true. Processing Content Eighty-five percent of U.S. employees have experienced some ...

Katelyn Carey does a fabulous TED Talk about conflict. As an A&E doctor on the frontline, she has to deal with it a lot – having to tell families their elderly relative can’t be seen for hours, for ...