PERSONALITY CONFLICTS
IN THE WORKPLACE


Dealing with personality conflicts in the workplace is important today as it has been in the past however it is ignored a great deal by Personnel Departments but does lead to emotional stress and sick absences in the workplace.  They usually pander to the Open Door policies of the company and don't take the matter seriously enough that hostile under-currents happen leading to a high turnover of staff.

However, it is known that males resent women being promoted more than when one of their male counterparts are promoted. Other women seem to resent it when a woman is promoted even when they know the promotion was earned.  Thereby undermining the talented manager/employee in performing to their best.  

A woman won't get promoted to the position she deserves or has ambitions for because unless she tells people she wants that move, they may call her too aggressive, unfeminine and dominating or a bitch on wheels even when her management style is apt for the position of the job.

If a woman tries to engage in the work strategies necessary to gain promotion sometimes colleagues become negative and call this "bitchy behaviour" although they wouldn't say the same thing about a male who has ambitions and some men do behave in this manner too when it comes to personalities. As its becomes part of the puberty rites or the male menopause in the workplace.

Men don't feel guilty about using power, ambitions nor achieving. And there is nothing wrong with these qualities even in a female executive.

However I suppose when it comes to women's personalities male bosses don't want to get involved in any personality conflicts but its double standards as they do when dealing with other male staff's in a blunt manner, the same should apply to females, no "special favours" should be applied.

Sometimes a boss will play able strong characters against each other because their ego can't take the fact that the employees are very good at what they do and it makes them feel and act in a paternal/maternal role to "fix things" which they get off on as an ego boost because they haven't much security in themselves or you have the male crony or toady who lays as a rug for the boss becoming his alter-ego in the work place.

But most importantly it sustains the status quo in which its in the bosses favour where advancement is concerned. It helps keep frictions going and the strong characters of a person's energy occupied so they would have less time to achieve their potential and make valuable contributions.

Also whenever I have stated the words "high-esteem" I never say the actual height of the ground beneath their feet they are dangling from when they play one colleague against another. More than likely with some bosses methods one inch from the floor would do.

The reason most employees don't get along isn't because of "personality differences" as the Personnel departments trendy wording for any emotional situation its because personal emotions is mistaken for ambitions.

Irrational emotions are always present at any company or situation, to say they do not exist costs companies dearly every time. That's way its important when building teams to remember the personality traits of people for a longer time than just a personality test at the selection procedure in hiring employees or managers.  

There aren't enough office hours in the day to deal with work more less without having to endure the office politics of women or men on the basis of hormones, menopause, periods, puberty, male bonding rites, machoism and the male "queenie" ie. bitching behaviour...yes there are those types and such like which is counter-productive in the achieving anything as an excuse for professionalism and ethical behaviour.

 

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