Reply to Pierre Florendo’s response to advancing organization by conflict resolution
Thank you, Pierre, for your response to my post. I agree that it may seem like a time-consuming task, but both the meetings are beneficial for us. The briefings help us stay connected to the cause we are fighting for and keep us up-to-date with the issues happening across the world and the measures our organization is taking on a daily basis. Also, it is a really good time to connect with the other teams. Furthermore, some of us, including myself are working part-time so it gives us a chance to pick up from where we left to make sure we are not missing out on stuff.The check-ins, on the other hand, is a time to deal with individual concerns and matters that do not require group discussions. It also assists in reviewing our personal growth.
Yes, this job holds the employees accountable by performance improvement plans but also there are incentives for exceeding the targets. As our success is measured in numbers, everyone wants to be the best fundraiser of the office which in turn leads to competitive goals rather than cooperative goals as I mentioned earlier (Tjosvold et al., 2014, p. 554).
Nevertheless, we are taking measures to improve the work environment and everyone understands the best way forward is by mutual efforts. For that, we had our first brainstorming session recently to come up with ideas to make the Vancouver fundraisers team best of all.
Reference
Tjosvold, D., Wong, A. SH., & Chen, N. YF. (2014) Constructively managing conflicts in organizations retrieved from