Abstract:
Conflict today has become part of organizations. This is more so in an organization as a university with a structure that allows two or more units or groups to share functional boundaries in achieving its set objectives. In universities, people with differing nature -students, lecturers and administrative staff -have to work harmoniously together. Hence, the organizational structure is such that staff and staff, students and students, and staff and students share functional boundaries of exchange of knowledge. Correlation analysis (i.e. Pearson Product Moment Correlation) was employed to show the existence of the relationship between conflict management strategy and employee performance. This paper investigated conflict management strategy in Distance Learning Institute in Nigeria. The findings of this study revealed that Conflict management strategy will significantly improve employee performance in Distance Learning Institute in Nigeria and that there is a significant relationship between conflict management strategy and effective administration planning in Distance Learning Institute in Nigeria. This paper recommends that university authorities should adopt dialogue strategy and all the others found in this study to be effective in managing role conflict in Nigeria universities.
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