Conflict Management Styles Used by Teachers at Public and Private Sector Universities of Lahore

Zahida Parveen; Javeria  Iqbal; Zeba  Latif

doi:10.32350/jarms/2020/0101/907

Zahida Parveen University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan
Javeria Iqbal University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan
Zeba Latif University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32350/jarms/2020/0101/907

Keywords: conflict management styles (CMSs), accommodating style, collaborating style, public and private universities

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This study aimed to investigate the most prevalent Conflict Management Styles (CMSs) among teachers at public and private sector universities of Lahore. For this purpose, a survey was conducted using Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory Roci-II form C. This inventory was pilot tested and its reliability was found to be 0.86. The sample comprised 446 teachers selected using two-stage random sampling technique from six public and private sector universities of Lahore. The findings revealed that managing conflicts through accommodating and collaborating styles were practiced by university teachers and these particular styles mostly prevailed among them. There was no meaningful difference found between teachers from public and private universities; however, some differences were found on the basis of other demographic variables such as gender, designation, age, and qualification of respondents.

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