what are the causes and possible solution of interdepartmental rivalry at a work place?

Answer 1

Causes can be myriad - insecurity, a pushy competitive work culture, personal ambition etc. Friendly interdepartmental rivalry can be a good thing if it is within a controlled context. Negative rivalry can be destructive. A solution is to gather the main protagonists in one place and be clear about the potential negative impact on the bigger picture. Providing exchange opportunities for members of one department in the rival department may also help.

Answer 2

Rivalry is good for production. If you were to look at it and kept in a competitive perspective. Your Question reads as something that is a bit of a problem. Often,one problem is that some people have too much time on their hands, to gossip and to spread ill will and are really of no use to a company at all.
I sense your are a person upper management who See's this as getting out of control. the most likely route to solution would be to find out what it is that is making one Department successful and the others not. Compile all production data. Identify what technique's and processes are used in the dept that is most productive. assemble that data take it to the next meeting of management and implement/deploy uniform strategies throughout the company.

Answer 3

The whole concept of having "departments" is the main cause. You divide people up they form terrotories and groups and start seeing it as a "us and them" situation. This is extended further by those managerial talks and statistics that go "of course department 5 has the best prodictivity this quarter" - everyone else starts hating Dept5 for being swots. Etc. Etc.

The only real solution is to organise your company without divisions along departments.

Answer 4

Good leadership helps keep everyone, in every dept, focused on the core mission of the company. Poor leadership helps foster unhealthy rivalries

Answer 5

There are certain departments in every company in which the employees are overpaid and useless, like Human Resources for example. That causes resentment.

Answer 6

In my job there has always been ""shift wars" basically people get mad if somethings not done the same way on another shift or in your case dept. and instead of communicating theres bickering and backstabbing. As in any thing communication is the key to success

Answer 7

Departments are just another way of saying teams..and we all know what teams do..compete...management usually encourage inter-departmental rivalry..it gives employees incentive..also good for productivity.

Answer 8

Cause -office politics
Solution - fire everyone

Answer 9

It's very often due to insecurities, but sometimes due to personality clashes.

Answer 10

communism is the solution