Investigating the Relationship between Conflict Management Styles and the Staffs' Job Stress with the Aim of Applying the Appropriate Management Style in Future

Subject Areas : Futurology

Ramezan  Jahanian ¹ (استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرج)
Azam  Ishaghi ² (کارشناس ارشد، مدیریت آموزشی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرج)

Received: 2012-09-01 Accepted : 2012-10-23 Published : 2015-08-22

Keywords: Management styles, Conflict Management, Job Stress, Competitive Style, Avoidance Style, Compromising Style, Cooperative Style, Sacrificing Style,

Abstract :

This study is run with the aim of investigating the relationship between conflict managementstyles and staffs' job stress in order to apply the appropriate management style in future on thebasis of descriptive correlation method. The population includes all the staffs in technical andvocational colleges in Alborz province in 2011 which comprise 130 participants and thesubjects are selected according to the simple random sampling on the basis of Morgan's table fordetermining the sample size. The data collection tools are two questionnaires; one is conflictresolution questionnaire which was presented by Weeks (1994) and Fisher and Ury (1991) andjob stress questionnaire which is designed by Osipow (1987). The obtained results indicatesthat there is a meaningful and positive relationship between the competitive, avoidance andcompromise conflict management styles and staffs' job stress. On the other hand, there is nosignificant relationship between sacrificing and cooperative conflict management style andstaffs' job stress.