Role Taking and Role Conflict
ROLE TAKING
The method of taking the role of another person in order to comprehend their point of view. Role taking is the process of mentally assuming the perspective of another person and responding from that perspective. Role playing is perceiving and comprehending a situation through the eyes of those who are engaged.
The social-mental idea of role-taking, also known as social
angle taking, is a social-mental concept. Role-taking is the process of
observing one's own position and overall performance through the perspective of
others.
While playing games like "home" or
"school" as a child. One of us would pretend to be a mother or a
teacher, while the other would pretend to be a father or a student. These roles
had already been established: the "mother" cooked/cleaned/did
everything we were taught about motherhood, and the "father" acted in
accordance with their family's expectations.
Everyone has a role to play in life. A job can be described as a set of expectations that are assumed in a specific situation. A manager's job, for instance, is to guide a group of employees, organize time sheets for employees, and resolve any difficulties that appear during the workday. Every person has at least one role and, in many cases, various roles at the same time. Students, sons/daughters, friends, and/or siblings are all roles that youngsters try to perform on a daily basis. A collision between two or more of a person's roles, or conflicting elements within the same role, is referred to as "role conflict."
When does there have to be a role conflict?
When an individual's employment or position places
incompatible demands on them, this is known as role conflict. They become aware
of it after attempting to respond to a number of statutes that they hold within
society.
The two types of role conflicts are -
i) Inter-role conflict
This type of role conflict occurs when people have many roles and the expectations and actions associated with one position differ from the expectations and behaviors associated with another. A common inter-role conflict in corporate settings, for example, is that between work and family, when the role constraints from each domain may be mutually contradictory.
Work-school conflict, which I have encountered, is another
prevalent form of inter-role conflict in which my responsibilities at work
collide with my job as a student. I was in the middle of my exams when I was
called in for an emergency shift at work the next day. Refusing the shift might
have caused problems at work, but it would have given me more time to study for
the exam. Accepting the change would maintain my strong work relationships, but
the repercussions could result in me receiving a lower grade or failing the
exam.
Inter-role conflicts usually arise when a person's personal
life and job responsibilities are in opposite directions. Nonetheless, this is
not always the case. In the capacity of guiding her own child's sports team,
for example, a person may face inter-role conflict. The job of parenting their
child and wanting their child to have game time may conflict with the role of
coaching and wanting to put in the best players for the team's good.
ii) Intra-role conflict
The type of role conflict produced by incompatibility
between one position's behaviors and expectations. These contradictions may
stem from the function's inherent complexity, its paradox, or a lack of
unanimity in identifying the role and its requirements.
When stress occurs within one aspect of life, it is called
intra-role conflict. An instance would be when two bosses urge an employee to
try to complete two tasks at the same time, and neither can be completed at the
same time.
Conflict between the roles arises as a result of the human
drive to succeed, as well as the strain placed on a person by two imposing and
contradictory demands that compete with one another.
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