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To avoid workplace conflict, clearly 'delegate and assign'

Providing employees with clear role responsibilities and resources can prevent workplace conflict, while fostering altruism can mitigate its intensity when it does arise, new research has found.

When conflict takes place, it always sub-optimal, study co-author and University of Queensland associate professor of economics Marco Faravelli tells HR Daily.

"You arrive to the same conclusion you could have got with an agreement at the start but with an enormous loss for everyone," he says...

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