Title: A study on relationship between leadership style and conflict resolution strategy in sustainable India

Authors: Kanika Garg; Mridula Mishra

Addresses: Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India ' Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

Abstract: Conflict in organisations is often avoided and suppressed because of its negative consequences and to seek to preserve consistency, stability and harmony within the organisation. The study examines the conflict resolution strategy among public sector bank Manager and also examines the relationship between leadership style and conflict resolution strategy among public sector bank Manager. The data has been collected from the 25 Managers working in the public sector bank. In order to attain the objective the descriptive statistics has been used. The study found that Managers respond high on withdrawal conflict resolution strategy. The study also found that Managers of public sector bank who were working as a managerial position fallen in team leadership style and they all have very high potential to complete their task and they are using withdrawal conflict resolution strategy to resolve the conflict in the bank.

Keywords: leadership style; conflict resolution strategy; withdrawal; managers; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2019.104833

International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2019 Vol.23 No.4, pp.517 - 531

Received: 03 Jun 2017
Accepted: 27 Oct 2017

Published online: 04 Feb 2020 *

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