Abstract
The issue of conflict has gained much importance in current period due to the clashes and disagreements among people of different culture working together at one place. This study was intended to look into the belief that may prevail between gender, age and conflict management styles. Particularly, the objective of the study is to match the conflict management styles prefer by male and female and by age diverse groups in major universities of Quetta and also to inspect the impact of each conflict management style on employee performance. The standardized self-administered adapted questionnaire by Thomas and Kilman (1974) was used to evaluate the conflict management styles of 300 participants (157 males, 143 females) selected at random from 4 major universities of Quetta i.e, university of Balochistan, Sardar Bahadur khan women’s University, BUITEMS and Al-Hammd University. Outcome of this study showed that, female, when compared with their male counterparts are more prone to use the compromising conflict management style and male utilize the avoiding style more often. One –way ANOVA showed that only the first group 25-35 is significantly related with compromising whereas the rest of the styles showed no difference. According to the results of Pearson’s correlation competitive and avoiding are negatively significantly correlated with employee performance whereas collaborating, compromising and accommodating are positively correlated with employee performance
Uzma Jaffer, Dr. Muhammad Shafiq2. (2017) Relationship between Age, Gender and Conflict management styles and its effect on employee performance in the major universities of Quetta City, Balochistan Review, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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