ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT, ROLE-CONFLICT AND CORRELATES - AN EMPIRICAL-STUDY

A survey of literature revealed that most studies took heed of just the single, specialised dimension of conflict and more or less ignored other dimensions: role conflict, organisational conflict and their correlates. To obtain measures of the correlates and their variance share on role conflict and organisational conflict, a questionnaire survey was conducted on a sample of 100 middle level executives from four medium sized organisations. Bivariate analysis showed statistically significant negative correlations with age, tenure, job involvement, work involvement and role efficacy. Stepwise multiple regression revealed that role efficacy accounted for 22 per cent variance of role conflict perception. Role efficacy and job involvement together explained 47 per cent variance of organisational conflict. Results are discussed in the light of the existing literature on management of conflict.