Problem: Two coworkers have been having a conflict around the way they approach certain tasks, the different values that they have, conflict surrounding the personality differences. One party has had enough and went to discuss the issue with the manager who one week later invited the other party to his office to discuss the matter.
Among the Friedrich Glasl's nine-stage model, which stage is this conflict at? Why?
N.B.: Friedrich Glasl's nine-stage model (1-hardening, 2-debate, 3-action over words, 4-images/coalitions, 5-loss of face, 6-threat as a strategy, 7-limited attempts to overthrow,8-fragmentation of the enemy, 9-together into the abyss)