Dispute Summary in business.

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Dispute Summary

In today's business environment, disputes are inevitable. Disputes are handled through dialog, resulting in both parties being satisfied, but often disputes can become very serious, involving legal action. Disputes in a workplace may occur among any of the organization's stakeholders, e.g., between employee and employee, employee-supervisor, company-vendor, company-customer, and company-competitor. Most conflicts in workplace, particularly in team or group situations cause significant distress among the people involved. If such disputes remain unresolved for some time, they are likely to take a heavy toll of employee morale and result in personal, social and economic costs including costly litigation.

The dispute that I chose to write about was a dispute that occurred at my previous place of employment. This dispute was between an employee (former)-company and company-competitor. I was previously employed at a telecommunication company. The telecommunication firm that I worked for brought a suit against a former employee and the competitor, for whom the former employee had started working. The dispute was that the company believed that the former employee had violated a non-compete contract that she had signed when she became a business manager with the company. By signing this agreement the employee agreed