Making the Team: A Guide for Managers, Fifth Edition

Chapter 8 Conflict in Teams

Leveraging Differences to Create Opportunity

Every organization can experience workplace violence—even the workplaces of those who are designated to uphold the laws of the land. That is just what was alleged to have occurred in the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2012. The problematic working relationship between Supreme Court Justice David Prosser and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley was not a well-kept secret. However, on June 13, 2012, the long-standing conflict between the two reached a boiling point. Late that day, six of the seven Supreme Court Justices had gathered in Bradley’s chambers to discuss the court’s decision to uphold a bill that would remove the collective bargaining rights of public employees—a decision that ...