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Conflict Resolution

Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution
Our world today is extremely diverse. America, especially, is a great example of diversity in our world as it is a conglomeration of people of different races, religions, backgrounds, personalities, educational experiences, and learning styles. These huge assortments of different types of people come together each day in different areas of life. American schools encompass a great variety of different people, which helps children to learn at an early age to get along with those whom are unlike them. This requirement of toleration of others extends into the working world as we have co-workers who are very diverse in many ways as well. Though we can learn and even have great success in getting along with others, there will always be instances of personal clashes.
In our vastly diverse corporate America, which Wikipedia defines as an "informal phrase describing the business world of the United States" (Corporate America, 2005), big businesses today succeed because of synergism within the company. This synergism, which can be explained as the whole team being more efficient than the individual persons who comprise it (Synergy 2005), comes only from employees working together closely in teams. Teams within the business world will always be filled with different people. One team of 10 members will have 10 very different learning styles, 10 separate methods of communication, and 10 incredibly conflicting personalities. Because of this, there is always bound to be conflicts, which will arise due to clashes in the thinking processes of the very distinct team members. Though conflict can tear a team apart and cause the whole group to lose focus and fail at achieving goals, many resolutions have been set in place to solve these conflicts and ensure that teams can come together to get the job done well.
There are different types of causes of conflict in work teams, including personality conflicts of which we have many different...