- This type of conflict is the most personal and can stem from one person's negative behaviors or another person's skewed perception due to things like stereotypes and rumors. It immediately affects the relationship between two people, but it also can lead to other conflicts (as more people take sides) or inefficiency (as people are unable to work effectively in a team).
- A value conflict comes about when two people or groups have dissenting views on morality--that basic understanding of what is naturally right or wrong. Relationship and value conflicts are the most subjective conflict types, because they are based totally on what someone "feels" about a person or situation.
- Conflicts of interest come about when one person believes that another person's desires, if enacted, will preclude his or her own interests from being met. A conflict of interest in this sense is often fueled by another type of conflict, such as when the desire of two people involved in a relational conflict to work separately interferes in a third party's interest to maintain an efficient working system.
- Data conflict occurs when information appears to be contradictory or when people use different methods to interpret the information that they have.
- Structural conflict is the least subjective variety of conflict, as it has the least to do with people's own viewpoints and interpretations. Instead, it is conflict based upon limited resources such as goods or time or last-minute changes to a plan of operation.
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