Open AccessRelationship between Conflict Management Styles and Job Satisfaction of Private Islamic Secondary School Teachers
Author(s) -
Hareesol Khun-Inkeeree,
Maisarah Jamaluddin,
M.S. Omar-Fauzee,
Muhammad Dzahir Kasa,
Fauzi Husin,
Fatimah Noor Rashidah Mohd Sofian,
Singha Tulyakul
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
frontiers in education technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2576-1854
pISSN - 2576-1846
DOI - 10.22158/fet.v2n4p255
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , psychology , compromise , scale (ratio) , social psychology , conflict management , islam , leadership style , absenteeism , management styles , applied psychology , public relations , political science , philosophy , physics , theology , quantum mechanics , law
Study aims to investigate about conflict management style and the job satisfaction among private Islamic school teachers. The data consisted of 136 samples from private secondary school teachers at Alor Setar district in Kedah. For acquiring the conflict management style, Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory (ROCI-II) had been used and to gain the job satisfaction datum, the Teaching Satisfaction Scale (TSS) developed by Ho and Au in 2006 was used. The findings of this research revealed that style of compromising (r = 0.299, p < .01), obliging (r = 0.244, p < .05) and integrating (r = 0.208, p < .05) have a significant relationship with job satisfaction. All these styles give positive outcomes for both parties that lead to positive school outcomes and also to maintain the good relationship with the other parties. When school administrator implemented these three styles will keeps teachers happy and satisfied without any kinds of negative impact on their relations at school. Thus, school administrator must be knowledgeable and aware about the best style of conflict at school to lead more satisfaction because teachers like to be more compromise when handling conflict. This finding suggests that the conflict management affects job satisfaction but excessive and wrong in handling it is associated with diminishing job satisfaction.