Abstract
This research is aimed to examine principals’ conflict management styles and comparing these
styles in terms of demographic variables. Descriptive survey design was used to describe the
frequency of principals’ conflict management styles and comparing these styles under different
boundary conditions. The target population of the study comprised 156 school principals. Rahim
organizational conflict management scale was used. Organizational conflict management scale to
describe conflict styles used by principals included 28 items 5-point Likert-scale. It was found that
the most frequently used styles by the principals were integrating and compromising; the least
frequently used styles were forcing and avoiding respectively. Integrating style was the most
frequently used style compared to the other ones; compromising style was used more frequently
than obliging, forcing and avoiding; obliging was used more frequently than forcing; avoiding was
used more frequently than forcing. Primary and middle school principals used obliging style more
frequently than general high school principals; middle school and K-8 principals used avoiding
style more frequently than general high school principals. Frequency of the use of conflict
management styles did not differ based on principals’ total seniority in school administration,
seniority as an educator, and gender.
Abdurrahman İLĞAN*. (2020) Examining Principals’ Conflict Management Styles: A Study of Turkish Administrators, Bulletin of Education & Research, Volume 42, Issue 1.
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