Relationship between personality type and conflict management style among Teachers

Abstract

No single person doesn't have a problem at work, but confrontations should be handled tactfully to foster collaboration and productivity. A teacher has a critical duty to sustain professionalism, efficiency, and harmony at work; in addition to handling her problems, she must also understand and manage those the students face. As a result, a teacher needs to know how to put out a fire immediately where it starts. For teachers to succeed, conflict resolution skills are essential. Using a correlative research design and two structured questionnaires to gather data from teachers working in 6 nursing institutes, this study aims to identify the main personality types and their associations with conflict management strategies. Most respondents exhibit neuroticism as their primary personality trait, followed by extroverts. The conflict management strategy that stood out in the study was accommodative. The second most common strategy exercised was collaboration. The study found a relationship between neuroticism and a competing nature as a conflict management style. Found a positive relationship between extraversion and two conflict management styles—collaboration and compromise.