Human Resource Management – Benefits Of Conflict
Benefits of Conflict
Conflict promotes growth, through learning to overcome challenges in unison with others It promotes creativity and innovation as solutions are suggested to overcome the differences between the stakeholders It promotes the development of interpersonal skills, as individuals strive to get on with each other in spite of their differences
It promotes mutual understanding of different values, aspirations and cultures (sometimes people are not trying to be difficult, they just have a different mind-set) It promotes social change and progress, as society changes and develops and a culture unfolds It promotes growth as the process of resolution overcomes the stagnation of the status quo (necessity is the mother of invention and conflict is one of necessity’s prodigies) It can promote originality and reflection when your viewpoint is challenged.