4.4 State Sources Of Conflict Within A Project

Question 1

What are the sources of conflict within a project team ?

Answer 1

Limited resources
Different objectives
Break down of communication
Cultural or personality differences

Question 2

What are the limited resources that projects often have ?

Answer 2

Project often have limited resources such as time budget and people to carry out the tasks to deliver the project

Question 3

What can limited resources lead to and why ?

Answer 3

This can lead to conflict over the distribution and allocation of resources and budget where the project team could disagree on how to allocate budget or staff of how to meet the deadlines set

Question 4

What may project stakeholder have different and how can it lead to conflict and what over ?

Answer 4

Project stakeholders may have different goals and objectives that do not align this can lead to conflict over the projects scope , the direction the project should take and the final outputs and outcomes the project should deliver.

Question 5

What can conflict over the project scope , the direction the project should take and the outputs and outcomes the project should deliver cause and the impact ?

Answer 5

This can cause disagreement between the project team and group of stakeholders over the ephedra , priorities , objectives and final deliverables and cause tension within the project team which may impact the projects success

Question 6

What can poor communication and misunderstanding lead to how and why and the affect ?

Answer 6

Poor communication and misunderstanding can lead to conflict where important information may be missed if the team do not communicate effective this can affect the project by leading to errors delays or potentially disruption the quality of the outputs

Question 7

What does communcation break down cause and the affect

Answer 7

Communcation break down can also cause mistrust or misrepresentation which may escalate the conflict

Question 8

What may members in a project team have , how does does that lead to conflict and what over ?

Answer 8

Members in a project team
May have different cultural background or personalities which can lead to corn lit over values , norms or even styles of communication

Question 9

What can different types of work styles , approach’s and cultural expectation cause , on regards to what and how does it lead to conflict ?

Answer 9

Team members may have different work styles , approaches or even cultural expectations in regards to communication and decision making which can create tensions and lead to misunderstandings and disagreement and therefore create conflict