Types of conflicts in the teams

All the teams have some kind of conflict because the individuals have varying experience, thought processes and expectations. This is does not mean that a team having conflict is a failure, this conflict can be used as an asset. Team conflict through successful and productive resolution can be done through understanding conflict dynamics and cultural approached to conflict management.
People have different approach to conflict based on the individual psychology. It can be emotional, cognitive, constructive and destructive. A successful team has cognitive and constructive conflicts.
Anger, personality clashes, ego and tension creates emotional conflict. Resolution to a problem is not easy when someone has emotional conflict.
When different team members have different ideas and arguments that generate cognitive conflict and this is mainly depersonalized. This is based on arguments about the merits of ides, ,plans and projects. It forces team members to rethink problems and arrive at a collective decision because cognitive conflict is not based on personal feelings.
Constructive conflicts help team resolve problems and uncover new solutions to old issues in a productive manner (Thompson, Aranda, and Robbins, 2000). It allows change and growth to occur within a team environment. Destructive conflict, like emotional conflict, causes dysfunction when a "lack of common agreement leads to negativism" (Thompson, Aranda, and Robbins, 2000). This disrupts the progress of all group members. Destructive conflict in teams diminishes the possibility of any problem resolution.