Kenneth Hill Inc. claims to be an employee-centered company. It has created a system of management wherein supervisors will have a specific number of employees under them. Lately, however, this practice has led to favoritism. Managers have promoted only those employees who had similar interests as them. This resulted in a huge disparity in the income and statuses of workers and created a negative workplace environment. This type of organizational behavior is explained by _____.

Conflict theory was given by Karl Marx , according to which social order is maintained through power and domination rather than consensus or conformity . This theory is based on the premise that individuals and groups in a society or in this case supervisors and their teams are working to maximize their own benefits.