The relationship between academic position and conflict management strategies of teaching academic staff in the state universities in sri lanka

Abstract

Conflicts are an everyday phenomenon in each individual or each group or in organizations which are impossible to avoid. Therefore conflict in higher education is also unavoidable. It exists at every level of academic world and it is possible to manage. This study was conducted to identify the mostly using conflict management strategies of academic staff and to identify the relationship between Academic position and conflict management strategies of academic staff in the State Universities in Sri Lanka. Further this study focus on to study the significant different among academic position and conflict management strategy. For this study the primary data which were collected from randomly selected 801 permanent academic staff using the structured five point scale questions from all 15 state Universities in Sri Lanka. The Findings showed that there was a significant difference in conflict management strategies adopted by academic staff in the state Universities in Sri Lanka. Findings revealed that Academic position has a significant relationship with integrating conflict management strategy while Academic position has no relationship with forcing, obliging, avoiding and compromising strategy. Further there is a significant different among current position of academic staff and CMS and also findings revealed that academic position vary in handling conflict management strategies.