Business

3.0 Recommendations

In order to make sure that the company can manage the team conflict effectively, below are some of the recommendations I have made.

Competing Style

Based on this competing style, its disadvantage is clearly stated as above which are excessively or misuse power in unethical or illegal way and also internal disorder of management. This competing style carries the meaning of pushing one’s viewpoint at the expense of others and offering only win-lose situations which means the manager doesn’t care about others opinion and forcing the employees to agree with his idea. In my opinion, Steve Job should not use this competing style to solve the problem between the CEO John Sculley and himself because this will lead to lack of feedback, reducing learning, and also low empowerment. This can result in being surrounded by “Yes-Men”. If Steve Job overuses the competing style, it might be made both of them in the constant tension or anger and occasional outbursts of violent temper. So, in order to make them can work in the peaceful working environment, Steve Job should have a discussion with his CEO first and find a best way to solve the problem that they have faced. This is because working in a company is talking about teamwork not personal performance.

Avoidance style

This style means that the team members are ignoring or failing to consider disagreement among team members. Steve Job should not just simply ignore the problem because the problem still exists. He should try to explain and give a reason to the board members so that they will not misunderstand Steve Jobs. This is because Steve Job might face this kind of problem against in the future, if he still using this avoidance style can result in a low level of input, decision-making by default, and allowing issues to fester, which can produce a breakdown in communication between him and his board members. Besides, this avoidance style also might decrease the quality of task performance and also...