Use Your Family Business Genogram to highlight tensions and conflicts apparent in your family business's ownership, management and family!

Family Businesses often face conflicts and tensions in the workplace due to close relationships among everyone. In my family business, the main cause of tension is the dominance of men in the workplace. This tension arises when very few female members of the family are hired and allowed to put their ideas forward. Another reason for conflict is the favoritism that arises due to it. This happens when more female members are willing to join and run the company.

The main conflict is sibling rivalry due to differences of objectives and ideas for the business. This conflict, however, is not that harmful to the business because it is a minor tension between siblings. The second tension that is faced is the favoritism for the close family members. The extended family members often get into a conflict with owners to avoid favoritism. Both these conflicts are among the latest generation of family employees and can be resolved by the senior members.