Conflict is ubiquitous irrespective of business, society and country. The nature of conflict management strategies followed by managers is partly influenced by the context, personal characteristics, cultural and family background. | Espoused art of conflict management styles and engagement of academic staff of selected technology-driven private universities in Nigeria International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology IJMET Volume 10 Issue 03 March 2019 pp. 680-689. Article ID IJMET_10_03_071 Available online at http ijmet JType IJMET amp VType 10 amp IType 3 ISSN Print 0976-6340 and ISSN Online 0976-6359 IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed ESPOUSED ART OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES AND ENGAGEMENT OF ACADEMIC STAFF OF SELECTED TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA IGBINOBA Ebeguki OSIBANJO Adewale ADENIJI Anthonia SALAU Odunayo and ATOLAGBE Tolulope Business Management Department Covenant University Nigeria ABSTRACT Conflict is ubiquitous irrespective of business society and country. The nature of conflict management strategies followed by managers is partly influenced by the context personal characteristics cultural and family background. But conflict has different dimensions. With an objective of spreading higher education in Nigeria at present 75 private universities are working. Most of the universities try to follow a structured organizational system as competition is there. As a result diagnostic process requires different approaches depending on context. It is against this that the study examined espoused art of conflict management styles and engagement of academic staff. For primary data copies of questionnaire were distributed to various categories of academic staff of different private universities. Besides that a structured questionnaire see appendix-1 has been used. A scale of preference 1 to 5 has been used for the close-ended questions. The analyses were done through the use of the SMART Partial Least Square PLS . In foremost cases the top management of the private universities is found to use the collaborating style with contingency leadership approach. The collaborative approach helps them to identify a common ground to solve the
