Category: MBA Notes

  • Basic Economics: For IIFT, other Entrance exams and GDPIs

    Economics play an important part in our day to day lives as well as in most of the GK based entrance exams. In order to have a good understanding of Economics, we need to have a good understanding of the basic terms and what they mean. Here is a list of some of the most…

  • Managing conflict – Theory and perspectives

    Managing conflict – Theory and perspectives

    So many articles, researched that deal with managing the conflict in organization. They give different ways to manage conflict but most of the ideas are overlapping. However, examining the conflict nature without knowing the appropriate approaches to handle the conflict only solves half of the problem. Likewise, the effectiveness of a particular conflict management approach…

  • Causes of conflict

    Causes of conflict

    Survey report from cipd (February, 2007) pointed out the causes of conflict at work. General behaviour and conduct issues are rated as the most common causes of disputes at work, followed by conflict over performance, sickness absence and attendance, and relationship between colleagues. Respondents also identify theft and fraud, bullying and harassment, as well as…

  • Effect of conflict in organization

    Effect of conflict in organization

    A number of studies have compared the effect of conflict on the work performance and on general found task or cognitive conflict to have positive effects while relationship or effective conflict to have negative effects on team performance. Amason (1996) argue that these two types of conflict have different performance outcomes and contend that cognitive…

  • Types of conflict

    Types of conflict

    Conflict theorists agree that there are two major types of conflicts although they label them in different ways. In 1980 Deutsch labeled them cooperative versus competitive. Jehn (1995, 1997) labels two types of conflict as task and relationship conflicts. In 1996 Amason et al. defined these types of conflict as “effective” and “cognitive” and in…