The aim of this study is empirically to test the relationships between the managerial performance and interpersonal conflict handling styles and dimensions of Korean executives in private firms. The analysis based on the data collected from 165 execut...
The aim of this study is empirically to test the relationships between the managerial performance and interpersonal conflict handling styles and dimensions of Korean executives in private firms. The analysis based on the data collected from 165 executives in 38 private firms. The results are as followes: First, collaboration style has positive relations with managerial performance, and avoiding style has negative ones, but not significant. Second, integrating dimension has significant positive relationships with performance, but distributive dimension has no significant relationships with it, as expected. Third, among the five conflict styles and two dimensions, only integrating dimension has predictive power to the managerial performance. Forth, there is no significant difference among the executives' conflict handling styles operationally defined as the most preferred style. Lastly, the implications of this analysis and the limitations of the study are then discussed.