CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES OF STUDENTS WITH TEACHERS; A STUDY OF UNIVERSTIES IN LAHORE PAKISTAN

Yıl 2019, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 1, 29 - 39, 01.03.2019

Saba Javed , Nasreen Akhtar

Öz

The
present research investigated student conflict management styles with teachers
in both public and private sector universities. The purpose of study was to
investigate preferences of students for different conflict management styles
with teachers in universities of Lahore. It also aimed to find out the effects
of gender, age, educational level and university sector on conflict management
styles. Survey method was employed to collect data from graduate and
postgraduate students (350) of public and private sector universities by using
an indigenous scale "Organizational Conflict Management Inventory"
(Haque 2004). Results indicated
that students in both types of
universities use integrating as first preferred style of managing conflicts
followed by obliging and avoiding. The main effect of educational level
was significant on integrating, dominating and avoiding styles

Anahtar Kelimeler

Conflict Management Styles, Integrating, Obliging, Avoiding

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