Conflicting interests within an organization.
There are many instances that an organization is consisted of different departments each with conflicting goals. How, as a manager, do you manage an effective team under these circumstances.
I think managing departments with conflicting goals could be difficult at times, depending on the mangers that run each department. Conflict resolution is extremely important for each manger and their departments. It also comes down to one simply word teamwork, each department is striving to have success in the same environment even though they have a different structure of work. An organization means your still one entity, there to support each other no matter what department your working with.
Sometimes, different departments may have slightly different goals. But different does not necessarily mean conflicting. Each department, as those forming an institution, should have clearly laid out common goals. If those cannot be identified, there is a problem. Then, each department can have complimentary goals or those goals that are not conflicting, but complement those of the Mission and Vision of the institution. For example, certain accreditors require individual departmental (or programmatic) goals- but also require them to be clearly aligned with those of the sponsoring institution. So in summary, first as an institution, the common goals need to be known and agreed upon (along with a clear strategy to acheive them), then each department can formulate their own complementary goals- to complement those of the institution.
