Abstract

GONNET, Juan Pablo. Shared Values and Conflict. Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.20, pp.57-69. ISSN 1514-6871.

This work analyzes an apparent paradox: share values generate conflict. From an ethnographic study developed in an International Non-Governmental Organization in the city of Córdoba we show how the organizational values widely assumed by its members become factors that encourage the development of disagreements and conflicts. In this way, we support the hypothesis that share values not necessarily (only) produce consensus and cooperation, but also allow disagreement because they facilitate the observation and evaluation of organizational operations. This hypothesis becomes pertinent, in the first place, from some assumptions of the social and organizational theory which consider share values as opposite to conflict; in the second place, from the social conflict theories that tend to propose that conflict appears as the result of a clash of values, interests and opposite presumptions; and finally, from the actual developments of the management theory in which the goodness of share values are stressed.

Keywords : Conflict; Integration; Organization; Values.

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