Abstract:
Workspaces survive as difficult places to navigate and thrive even in the best of times. Gathering groups of independent confident adults together to form teams that must work cohesively towards common goals and outcomes does not always result in success.
Unfortunately, as we add in the uncertainty, fear, and strategic planning swirling around the Covid-19 pandemic and economic fallout, then we see greater conflict and clashes now occurring in workgroups throughout Kenya.
Amanuel Tekleab, Narda Quigley and Paul Tesluk studied team cohesion and conflict over four-month periods at different stages.
The presence or absence of task conflicts, like disagreements about what to do or how to do it, or relationship conflicts, such as interpersonal tension and friction, had no relationship with better team cohesion at all.
Description:
A Newspaper article by Scott Bellows, an Assistant Professor in the Chandaria School of Business at USIU-Africa. Full article: https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/lifestyle/personal-finance/team-cohesion-andworkplace-bullies-2459818