CONCEPTUALIZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIVIDUALISM - COLLECTIVISM AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES AT INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
Abstract
The omnipresent and inevitable conflict is debated a lot in
organizational studies. Many researchers study the
relationship of conflict management styles and cultural
dimensions specifically with individualism collectivism. But
these studies deal the culture at a national level aggregately.
Hofsete's demarcation of cultures in to individualistic and
collectivistic cultures is the basic pillar of such studies in
cross cultural comparisons of conflict management styles.
In this study, an attempt was made to relate individualism
collectivism with conflict management styles at individual
levels as all people in a presumed collectivistic/
individualistic culture are not collectivists/ individualists.
Getting support from literature, propositions are developed
and a model is proposed. Future research directions and
prospects are discussed.
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