Authors : Ojo Akinyemi; Ilepe Johnson

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 9 - September

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/25sep1229

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Abstract : This paper preoccupies itself with the affirmation that conflict is necessarily symptomatic of organizational growth and development. A vast number of scholars have thrown weight behind the issue under discourse with divergent perspectives. Some, in no small measure, discountenanced the position that conflict is positively correlated with the smooth functionality of an organization, while others are averse with the fact that, organizational progress is inextricably imbued with conflict. A critical assessment method and analysis of existing literature were used to examine the invaluable import of conflict to organizations, which aims at strengthening the economy of a nation, as it is inherently shrouded in human nature. The study evaluates the various wellsprings of conflict as well as its philosophical underpinnings with the aim of showering the expected vitality on organizational growth. The paper argues that conflict is functional and therapeutic to organizations in contradistinction to the postulation of some authors who hold tenaciously to the view that, conflict is absolutely dysfunctional and should be circumvented or ,at best, skirted in any organization. On the whole, the paper unearths that, it was a dearth of requisite intellectual prowess and moral mores to conclude that conflict is replete with retrogressive tendencies in organizations or has a finger in the pie of organizational perdition. It is not unsafe to aver that, this belief system is a revolting, repugnant and repulsive crudity. The paper recommended that all organizations should embrace conflict as a necessary catalyst for organizations to attain their objectives and mandate.

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