Are Your Company Departments At War With Each Other?
Company is a mechanism - even if separate parts work well, it doesn’t guarantee the organization as a whole functions efficiently. Today we will discuss one of the most common issues that can be potentially holding your business back. As soon as any company has more than 2 employees, cross-department or cross-functional conflicts are inevitable. The bigger the company, the more strained cross-department relations hamper its growth. In this article we prepared the most common causes of interdepartmental conflicts and strategies to prevent them. Break system barriers As if human communication is not complicated enough, business operating systems might create barriers that don’t let the team collaborate efficiently. Competing goals, vague roles or broken business processes are typical examples of possible system barriers. A business process refers to a wide range of structured activities that are implemented to accomplish an organizational goal. As business processes can be manual or...