Tom works in middle management and is often rude and overly critical of his workers. He has recently had a strong disagreement with a few employees because he had to limit their project budgets due to the company cutting production costs. He has also had arguments because he called workers offensive names. He usually uses personal insults when he feels that his authority is threatened. How would you categorize these conflicts? All of them are relationship conflicts because they are caused by his bad temper and people skills. His criticism of workers is a process conflict; everything else is a task conflict. The budget cutbacks represent a task conflict; everything else is a relationship conflict. All of them are task conflicts because the issues occur in the workplace