Abstract
The rationale of this study is to catch sight of causal relationship between conflict management styles and team effectiveness and elucidate particular style’s impact on team effectiveness and give management insight into particular style that can either stir up team’s performance or hamper its progress.Apart from examining correlation between conflict management styles and team effectiveness, diverse factors like gender, designation, income level and age were also scrutinized to unearth factors which ostensibly propel an individual to pursue a specific conflict management style. Internationally devised questionnaire was deployed to ascertain numerical score of both qualitative variables. Research was conducted on basis of random sampling. Total sample size of research is 220. Respondents include employees working in various textile firms operating in Pakistan. Statistical tests serving purpose of this study are Pearson’s Chi-Square Test, Yates Chi-Square Test, Crammer’s coefficient of contingency, Pearson Coefficient of mean-squared contingency. Data analysis also includes regression analysis of data, correlation coefficients and development of linear regression models. The final analysis revealed moderate effect of conflict management style on team effectiveness. Collaborative and Accommodating style of team effectiveness found to be highly positively associated with team effectiveness. Competing style demonstrated insignificance relation to team effectiveness. Compromising style revealed negative association while avoiding style exhibited high negative correlation with team effectiveness. Age, Gender, Income level and Designation were not found to have an influence on particular conflict management style being pursued by individuals.
Highlights
Conflict is undoubtedly inevitable constituent of any team keeping in view of the fact that team is composed of individuals with varying attitudes, beliefs and objectives
Apart from examining propensity of relationship between conflict management styles and team effectiveness, diverse factors like gender, designation, income level and age were separately scrutinized to unearth their significance in propelling a particular conflict management styles, which they failed to showcase in our study
The questionnaire was composed of two sections, one assessed the conflict management style pursued by respondent and other section ascertained score of team effectiveness
Summary
Conflict is undoubtedly inevitable constituent of any team keeping in view of the fact that team is composed of individuals with varying attitudes, beliefs and objectives. Conflict can perturb team’s spirit, detriment cooperation level and plummet motivation level but on contrary conflict can manufacture lucrative ideas. It can expand the awareness of a particular situation, escalate cooperation among the group members, www.ccsenet.org/ijbm sharpening their focus on goals and people try to learn about each other and develop skills that are necessary to be a good team player. The research attempted to unfold any relation of prescribed conflict management styles to team effectiveness in various textile firms which can be of elevated essence to employees for pursuing particular conflict management style in a conflict situation. Apart from examining propensity of relationship between conflict management styles and team effectiveness, diverse factors like gender, designation, income level and age were separately scrutinized to unearth their significance in propelling a particular conflict management styles, which they failed to showcase in our study
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