It’s not always easy to get along with everyone at work. With workplace diversity, we all bring varied values, beliefs, attitudes, personalities, styles and culture. Co-worker conflict isn’t always avoidable and can be very disruptive to productivity and efficiency. Much time, effort and energy are then spent for conflict resolution to eliminate an unpleasant working environment, which causes de-motivation and stress. Ideally tie, energy and effort should be focused instead on understanding and resolving the differences for mutually satisfying resolutions. Each individual should be responsible for building strong relationship at work. Getting along with each other means cooperatively, accepting differences, respecting diversity, and hearing everyone’s opinions and ideas in positive manner. Everyone has to do his/her part.
Socializing, telling stories and jokes, sharing personal life, are all a natural part of interaction and must be encouraged. This promotes camaderie, easy communication, healthy respect for differences, and deeper understanding of a other people’s attitudes, beliefs, and values. Such as a development is gained with mutual respect and an awareness of working towards a common goal.
With the advent of partnership and global competition amid cultural diversity, it is a competitive advance to be able to meet the demands of a changing workforce. You can draw on the knowledge and perspectives of everyone; giving you ore alternatives and a selection of skills and strengths. In groups there can be delegation of smaller tasks so the work becomes less daunting. It can be divided according to specialization, and can thus be accomplished in less time and with less effort and money.
A simple guideline to develop mutual respect is acceptance and cooperation, and always stays positive. Do not take assumptions on what your peers are saying to you; if you don’t understand, ask nicely what they mean. What is obvious to you ay not be obvious to another. Come to meetings prepared and on time. Learn to value other people’s tie and efforts. Be approachable and learn to be a team player to facilitate open discussion of ideas. Don’t make suggestive remarks about a person’s religion, race or culture; they may be taken as offensive. Be sensitive to every single issue. Little things, such as not playing your radio too loud or having loud phone conversations, or making sure to refill the copier with paper or toner, are simple courteous actions that preempt irritants. Often enough it’s the little things that add up to building a strong relationship.
We all ay seek the same goal of success, professional growth, status, recognition, job and financial security, but “no man is an island.” Whenever two or more people work together, there is politics. To successfully survive in an integral part of the workplace. Thus we must learn to interpret other’s actions and language, and adapt and adjust accordingly.
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