APPLICATION 

The link below is a link to my Infographic about relationships and how close is too close. 

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/11020077-tiffany-schicklings-infographic-for-cmst

In the Infographic above, one may not right away see how it relates to organizational conflict, but below I will explain that it does indeed. Relationships exist throughout an organization, whether they are personal, friendships, or work related. The theme of the infographic is how close are you with the people you work with. If people are too close and are in the same workplace, favoritism can occur and case conflict among others in the workplace. The infographic relates to distal context the best, and is defined on the introduction tab. Distal context has to deal with relationship history, so if people are too close conflicts can occur and disrupt employee relations or the businesses work flow. For example, in distal context if someone has an argument about how a certain project is to be done, but the two people in dispute dated before and the relationship ended badly, the situation could get out of hand. 

Also, I must discuss what it means for separates working in the same work place. Having separates, who avoid conflict because they do not want to share thoughts and feelings, can cause problems at work. People who do not share their thoughts and feelings at work become outsiders and isolated from other co-workers, and many people end up not liking their job because they think no one likes them. Not sharing thoughts and feelings at work is warranted in certain situation such as politics and religion, but anything work related people should feel inclined to share their thoughts and feelings because it can be beneficial to get others views on how to do certain things at work. Thus, the infographic does indeed relate to organizational conflict because distal context and separates shows how being too close in the workplace can cause problems. 

Also, I found a YouTube video titled Conflicts in the Workplace 13756 posted by kinesticstreaming that is a great example of both distal context and distal outcomes in organizational conflict in an office setting. The link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQfcezPgfB0

The YouTube video starts out with three people sitting at a desk having a dispute on how to conduct a work project, and by the looks if it, two of the employees have a history of conflicts in the workplace. The women is upset because the guy sitting next to her thinks he has all the good ideas the women does not want to work with him anymore. So, she told him to finish the project himself. The guy said to other co-workers that it was not his first run in with his co-worker Anita, and starts complaining to them about her and the argument they are having. He said instead of dealing with the conflict directly he lets of steam to his friends. His friends told him that it is getting old and nothing is getting resolved, and told him he needed to figure it out.

Conflicts are a part of life and can cause stress, but they do not have to be that way, and there are skills you can learn to resolve conflicts in a positive way. He said conflicts are about working with the other person and building a relationship. There are many causes of conflicts, but in order to solve it you have to get to the root cause of the conflict. Also, being defensive does not get you anywhere and move forward from insults because there is no need to dwell on them. A good way to solve a conflict is to put yourself in the others shoes, ask open ended questions, and do not judge.

What one can take away from the video is that Anita and her co-worker demonstrate distal context because they have had prior conflicts and relationship history. We know they had previous conflicts because the guy goes to his friends and told them this is not the first time they have had a argument and his friends told him he they are done hearing him complain and that he needs to solve his issues with her. So, he started to self reflect and thought of ways to resolve their issues and find a way to become friends. This is where distal outcomes come into play because it is about resolving a dispute and may take a while, but in the end become friends, which is what happened in the video in the various scenarios they gave, especially the one with the two women having an augment about one doing all the work while the other one sits at her desk all day. So, they put each other in each others shoes and figured out when she is sitting at her desk all day she is actually working and both realized they are doing the same amount of work and became good work friends after that. Therefore, this video is a good example of the concepts I discussed on the introduction page because it demonstrated two of the principles.