In the retail industry, many companies are hiring more/extra part-time employees due to holidays. Since more people are willing to buy goods as a gift due to a holiday culture such as Christmas which cause the amount of order or sales increases. However, companies should also pay more attention of conflicts between new and old employees. If conflicts occur, instead of positive impact, it may actually causes a negative impact at the end of result.

According to the theories of organization behavior, causing a negative impact to the company due to employees can have a few reasons. Communication can be one of the issues between employees. Since there are a lot of new hiring employees during holidays, those new employees may not be able to communicate well with others that causing inefficient and conflict while working. Also an employees’ perception of another may cause conflict as well. Some kinds of perception may include, stereotyping and prejudice. People may judge a person due to their nationality or culture, which leads to conflict between each other. Therefore, in order to reduce the possibility of increase conflict between employees, company should always build up a good relationship with their staff in any circumstance.

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Article: http://business.financialpost.com/2011/11/18/hiring-holiday-staff-watch-for-conflicts/