Role Ambiguity and Role Conflict

Role Ambiguity and Role Conflict

Role Ambiguity

Definition

Role ambiguity denotes doubt about the anticipations, behaviors, and penalties affiliated with a specific role. Specifically, a individual has a need to understand others' anticipations of the privileges, obligations, and responsibilities of the function, the behaviors that will lead to fulfillment of these anticipations, and the expected penalties of these function behaviors.

Problem Statement

Organizational components and one-by-one components may origin function ambiguity. Consequences of function ambiguity may encompass stress, job dissatisfaction, and turnover. It is helpful to differentiate target function ambiguity from the personal function ambiguity skilled by the individual in the ...