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Stimulating conflicts in a team or a group seems to be an odd thing to do.
I can think of two possibilities
I may agree with the first case, but with caution so as not to create/encourage negative feelings to grow within the team/group. However, I am totally against the other case and I really feel sorry for the team/group members, the managers themselves and even for the organizations and companies having such practices in them
As a manager this is a dangerous strategy and should be avoided as conflict can cause long term damage. However, it is perhaps necessary when a team is going no where or are not performing and are in a comfort zone. It may be necessary to create chaos as a process to awaken the team to new possibilities and in this chaotic process conflict will occur but at the same time learning happens and people start finding each other in the group and new friendships are forged as well as improved performance. however one must be guarded with such interventions as one must have a strategy to install order when chaos has reached its limit or goal.