Causes of Conflicts in Teams

Conflicts are caused by various factors such as poor communication, backstabbing co workers, clash in persona, competition between co workers etc. Lets talk about poor communication first. As we know in this era of modernisation communication skills are must for everyone because one cannot succeed without these skills specially in a team work. Also, contribution in team work needs proper information which can only be delivered by good communication skills. Some times poor communication skills become reason of conflicts in a team because other member are not happy with the thoughts of poor communicator. This doesn't mean that poor communicator doesn't have ideas. The only problem he or she have at that time is lack of communication skills. Other major reason of conflict is competition between co workers. This competition turns into conflict when co workers starts arguing with each other in front of team leaders to realise team leaders that they are right instead of others. This type of competition make co workers backstabbers because to earn promotion they start backstabbing people in front of higher authorities of team which can also cause some issues between co workers and sometimes this type of conflict leads to fight between co workers if not handled properly by team management. In addition, clash in personalities also cause conflicts in a team. As I mentioned earlier in my previous posts, Thinking of everyone is not same. Everyone have their own viewpoints on different things which cause clash in personalities. These are the main causes of conflicts and if those conflicts aren't handled properly it can affect output of team in negative way.