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Assessing the Relationship between Leadership and Conflict Management Styles
ASSESSING THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
STYLES IN THE BANKING
SECTOR OF PAKISTAN
Abstract
Humayun Zafar
Department of Management
College of Business Management, Karachi
The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship of Blake
and Mouton’s leadership grid with the conflict resolution
strategies of the leaders. These strategies categorized by
Bernardin and Alvares (1976) are: accommodating, avoiding,
compromising, competing and collaborating.
The purpose of this article is to study the positive relationship
of the Blake and Mouton (1964) leadership styles with these
strategies in Pakistan. Three categories of executives in the
banking industry were chosen, comprising of 19 employees in
each category and the categories were those of managers, senior
managers and top executives.
The results of the study show that a growing number of
executives in all the three categories perceived themselves to be
practicing the team management style, and the proportion of
this was found to be highest in the category of top executives.
Keywords: SAMS (self assessment management skills) conflict
resolution strategies, collaborating, accommodating, concern for
production and concern for task
JEL Classification: M 1100
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PAKISTAN BUSINESS REVIEW JULY 2011