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Understanding the Relationship between Demographic Factors and Different Styles of Managing Conflicts among Employees in Automobile Industry


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1 Amity Business School, Amity University, Noida, India
 

Conflict is quite evitable in any organization and the only way to resolve is to understand and prepare employees to resolve it at right time and with right approach. Since lot of behavioural, ethical, moral, knowledge centric and time oriented changes happen with employees which also affect our approach towards handling differences. With diversity of opinion, aspiration, mental set up, maturity, past experience and goal with which each individual works differences are quite obvious. Until these conflicts are been resolved organization cannot utilize potential at fullest and at the same time the culture of organization also suffers.

This paper attempts to understand how based on demographic variables conflict management styles vary and how founded on these employees can be trained to effectively manage the conflict.


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Conflict Management, Demographic Factors, Organization Culture, Organization System.
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Vijit Chaturvedi
Amity Business School, Amity University, Noida, India

Abstract


Conflict is quite evitable in any organization and the only way to resolve is to understand and prepare employees to resolve it at right time and with right approach. Since lot of behavioural, ethical, moral, knowledge centric and time oriented changes happen with employees which also affect our approach towards handling differences. With diversity of opinion, aspiration, mental set up, maturity, past experience and goal with which each individual works differences are quite obvious. Until these conflicts are been resolved organization cannot utilize potential at fullest and at the same time the culture of organization also suffers.

This paper attempts to understand how based on demographic variables conflict management styles vary and how founded on these employees can be trained to effectively manage the conflict.


Keywords


Conflict Management, Demographic Factors, Organization Culture, Organization System.

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