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if an employee has transferred from one office to another owing to a conflict is it important that a line manager should keep some reservations from him?
An interesting question. Unless the manager has had formal training in leadership, management and ethical awareness, I would suggest to approach any interaction with staffs with a professional and cautious style.
As you may know staffs or anyone for that matter, view things differently. What seems okay for one member can be totally misconstrued by another.
Be seen as a mentor and leader. This does not necessar mean a 'militant' approach, just that authoritive figure staffs can easy access when there are issues.
perhaps outside of the work environment you could look at a social activity to bond the group, a team sport perhaps, or even trivia... Good luck.
Interpersonal skills are key indicator for the success of a manager as well as an organization
The relationships that a manager has to have with others. The three roles within this category are figurehead, leader and liaison. Managers must act as figureheads because of their formal authority and symbolic position representing the organisation. As leaders, managers have to consider the needs of an organisation and those of the individuals they manage and work with. The third interpersonal role, that of liaison, deals with the ‘horizontal’ relationships which studies of work activity have been shown to be important for a manager. A manager usually maintains a network of relationships, both inside and outside the organisation. Dealing with people, formally and informally, up and down the hierarchy and sideways within it, is thus a major element of the manager’s role. A manager is often most visible when performing these interpersonal roles.
Regarding the second part of questions, keeping reservations with an employee transferred to other department due to fight is not desirable but reservations should be kept to avoid unnecessary information leak and to avoid needless engagement at working time.
You have raised a relevant question.
Instead of having reservations, line manager should try to find out reason/s for the conflict of a newly arrived employee with his / her previous department . Accordingly, line manager using interpersonal skills should try to boost the morale of the newly arrived employee and make him or her feel that he or she is part of the team.
