You can’t escape conflict. Conflict management in organizations is an imperative skill, regardless of what you do or where your place of employment is.  It’s so useful, in fact, you can even get a dispute resolution degree. If you deal with people, you are going to need to manage conflict. In extreme cases, [...]

Conflict is unavoidable.  Regardless of where you are, conflict is everywhere no matter who you are.  It’s not rare to hear of disputes turning into long, drawn out lawsuits.  Something as simple as a difference in personalities between team members can hinder productivity.  Here are a few ways to help you turn a conflict into [...]

Among the numerous types of organization management structures, the functional organizational structure finds its place.  An organization needs structure for achieving common goals – the functional model is structured hierarchically with a strong concept of subordination.  Most companies in the modern era rely upon this functional/hierarchical model (cf: Matrix organizational structure ).
In the functional organization, [...]

Project managers (PM) are naturally considered leaders since they claim near total responsibility for their projects. Though they do not manage the resources in some occasions, still they are project leaders. One cannot take both management and  leadership as the same thing. Yukl defines the terms leader, manager and boss to specify people who play [...]