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Organizational Conflict Styles of Managers: The Effect of Gender Role Orientations

Deal, Erin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1468248013

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2016, Master of Arts, University of Akron, Communication.
This study examined the impact of gender role orientations on conflict styles used by superiors when in conflict with their subordinates. Previous studies examining differences in conflict styles based on biological sex have been contradictory and inconclusive. However, few studies have examined the conflict styles used based on gender role orientations. This study filled the gap using surveys collected via snowball sampling in order to collect self-reported data regarding the relationships between gender role orientations and conflict styles of superiors. The measures used included the BSRI to measure gender role orientations, and the ROCII-II to measure conflict styles in superior-subordinate relationships. This study found that men are more likely to use the dominating style of conflict and women are more likely to use integrating and avoiding. Masculine individuals were found to use dominating more often, androgynous individuals used integrating more often, and feminine individuals used avoiding more often. Gender role orientation was also found to be a significant predictor of the avoiding and obliging conflict styles.
Heather Walter, Dr. (Advisor)
Elizabeth Graham, Dr. (Committee Member)
Julia Spiker, Dr. (Committee Member)
44 p.
Communication
Gender role orientations; Gender roles; Gender issues; Gender; Superior-subordinate; Conflict styles; Organizational conflict; Conflict; BSRI; ROCI-II

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  • Deal, E. (2016). Organizational Conflict Styles of Managers: The Effect of Gender Role Orientations [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1468248013

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Deal, Erin. Organizational Conflict Styles of Managers: The Effect of Gender Role Orientations. 2016. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1468248013.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Deal, Erin. "Organizational Conflict Styles of Managers: The Effect of Gender Role Orientations." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1468248013

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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