Conflict Management in Organization: Gender Perspective

Abstract

Organizations experience many factors that lead to dysfunction in their performance. Conflict in organization produces a climate which culminates into chaos if not timely checked. Many organizations have created several strategies to manage conflicts or even prevent it but these have not been successful. The potentials of women have not been fully explored in the context of conflict management. It is the aim of this paper to buttress the importance of involving women in conflict management because of certain imbued qualities they possess. These qualities were listed and highlighted upon. Recommendations were made on the indispensability of women in conflict management. Introduction: The word Conflict means to fight or to struggle for something. There are other variables that relate to conflict such as crisis which has an emotional and spontaneous aspect and has a duration that is not that long.