Dysfunctional Consequences

1.    The mental health of some combatants may be adversely affected because of the emotional stress reactions precipitated in such people. Tolerance levels are different i.e. low and high.

2.    Inter-group conflict of a high intense nature usually results in a misallocation of organizational resources i.e. time wanted to fight or combat one another, material and personnel are likely to be misused. People waste the organizations time, funds, materials and personnel in carrying out the warfare.

3.    Sub-optimization of part of the system occurs when disputants push their own position to the extreme.

4.    The distortion of goals may occur as people begin to concentrate their attention on petty issues or embark on faultfinding, regarding their opponents instead of pursuing their assigned missions.