Showing posts with label work issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work issues. Show all posts

Monday, September 15, 2014

Effective ways to resolve workplace conflict

Top post on IndiBlogger.in, the community of Indian Bloggers
We would have all dealt with workplace conflict at some point of time in our professional careers. Strangely enough, the kind of harassment that we deal with in our workplace, sometimes resemble the harrying time we had in our school-days. The bullying from the seniors and harassment dealt out by the bullies somehow starts to feel close to the sensation we have when we are singled-out by someone in office. But fortunately, we are not kids anymore and there are more grown-up ways to resolve our issues at work than we had in our childhood.

We spend the maximum amount of our waking time at work and it is important to have a healthy atmosphere in the workplace. But if we have one or more people trying to make our lives difficult in the office, we have a tough time dealing with our emotions. The negativity we build within ourselves due to the ill-effects of work-place conflict slowly starts to creep into our personal lives, leaving us irritable and bad-tempered. Although it is important to resolve the divergence at the work-place, it is also important to do it effectively and smoothly without damaging our professional careers. Here are some effective ways of dealing with workplace conflict and resolving professional clashes.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Work-life balance: Some tips on getting it right


Maintaining a healthy balance between the work-place and personal life is probably one of the most challenging tasks for a person. The balance always seems to be tilted in favor of one or the other and the perfect equilibrium seems almost impossible to be found. It is usually in the favor of the workplace because everyone is concerned with the recession and lay-offs and don’t want to be the next victim. But then, this stress might make you the victim of some terminal disease, instead.

This is an area of concern, not only for the individuals but for the management in a company as well. The kind of stress that one has to handle because of mounting work and dissatisfied family members is too much for anyone to handle and there is a breaking point for everybody. The lack of proper support from the company can lead to a severance of a good working relationship as well as a valuable asset.