The Relationship Between the Conflict Management Styles of The Heads of Academic Departments and The Organizational Commitment of The Faculty Members At Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the most common conflict management styles of academic leaders at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, to identify the level of organizational commitment of faculty members, and to know the nature of the relationship between the styles of organizational conflict management of the academic department heads and the organizational commitment of faculty members at the university, and whether there are Statistically significant differences at the significance level (a ≤ 0.05) between the mean responses of the study sample members towards organizational conflict management styles and organizational commitment due to scientific rank, years of experience and gender. The degree to which academic leaders practice conflict management styles, as well as measuring the degree of organizational commitment of each faculty member. The original population from which the research sample was derived consisted of all faculty members in the faculties of the university, and the number at the date of the study was (1696), the research sample was chosen from the faculty members in an unintended way, and the tool was distributed electronically and manually to all faculty members at the university, and the examination of the responses was counted, and it was found that all of them were valid for statistical analysis, which amounted to (315) forms, which represents the number of sample members with a percentage of 19%. The study reached several results, the most important of which are: the existence of a significant effect for each of the styles (collaboration, Compromising,  and Obliging/accommodating, and that there is a high degree of organizational commitment among university employees (with its various dimensions: affective, continuous, and normative), and that there is a strong direct correlation relationship between each of the organizational conflict management styles of academic department heads and the organizational commitment of faculty members at the university, the differences are not significant towards the styles of managing organizational conflict common by the heads of academic departments, as well as organizational commitment due to the variable of academic rank, the variable years of experience, and gender.