The relationship between conflict management strategies and organizational health in high schools

In any entity or organization, a healthy environment is a part of the organization's need; the organizational health of the schools is no exception in this regard. Conflict management style is among the factors influencing the organizational health of the schools. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between conflict management strategies and organizational health in high schools. The research method is descriptive – correlational. The population consisted of all the high school teachers in Garmi Province that included 140 individuals (35 women and 105 men). Based on the number of the population and Morgan table, a sample of 103 subjects (25 females and 78 males) was selected using stratified random sampling method. Results showed that, there is a significant negative correlation between conflict management strategies, solution-oriented strategies, avoidance strategy and organizational health strategy of the school. However, there was no correlation between the control strategy and the organizational health of schools. There is a significant negative correlation between solution oriented strategies with the spirit, academic emphasis, compliance, structuring, supporting resources, director’s influence and unity of institution, but there is no correlation with regard to the observation. Moreover, no correlation was observed between the control strategy with spirit, academic emphasis, compliance, structuring, support, resources, management influence and unity of entities. A conflict management strategy is higher than the average and organizational health of the school was assessed as moderate. The strategies solution-oriented and conflict avoidance have the highest effect in predicting the organizational health of schools (respectively, β= .30 and β= -.35). However, control strategy, cannot predict the organizational health of schools and the conflict management strategies explain 28% of the variance in the organizational health of schools. It can be concluded that, the use of conflict management strategies has been affective in improving the organizational health of schools. And by frequent use of conflict management training strategy, organizational health of schools increase; whereas, it decreases using avoidance strategy.

Conflict, conflict management strategies, organizational health of schools