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  • Essay / The Five Stages of Workplace Conflict - 713

    At my current job, there is a generational gap between our supervisor and the longest-tenured employee in our department. The employee expressed disdain for not being selected for the supervisor position and believes she was entitled to it. The current supervisor entered the perceived and felt stages simultaneously. Several meetings between the employee and the manager have been organized and senior management has been consulted, but the employee continues to act out. Through it all, the supervisor showed great patience and humility without trying to “get even” with the disgruntled employee. During one of our recent conferences, I gave him Philippians 2:3 to remember during his season of transition: “Do nothing out of rivalry or vanity, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves..”