SCHOOL CONFLICT AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES: A STUDY IN NURUL FIKRI ISLAMIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SIDOARJO EAST JAVA

Mukhammad Abdul Karim, Erny Roesmingisih, Soedjarwo Soedjarwo

Abstract


Abstract

A school comprises of various individuals that look to accomplish specific tasks through collaboration to reach school missions. Each individual contribute to school growth and has diverse unique characteristic, such as their own needs, capabilities, experiences, motivations, knowledges, and values. Thus, situation in school can be unpredictable and principal should understand the roots of any conflict and manage it. Aims of this study is to explore conflict in islamic elementary school located in Nurul Fikri Islamic Elementary School Sidoarjo East Java and analyze how principal face the conflict by using conflict management strategy. This study using qualitative method. Finding of this study is school conflict that occurred caused by lack of communitation, unmatch beetwen job description and qualification, goal conflict, limited source, and lack of interaction caused by different individual’s value which make clashes in perceptions and attitude. Principal face the conflict using collaboration strategy to find the best solution through discussion, accomodating strategy to analyze condition which the conflict occurred, and forcing strategy which has win-lose when conflict should resolve with. Finaly, author suggested some recommendation of this study.

Keywords: School conflict, Conflict Management Strategies

Full Text:

PDF (17-22)

References


Bagshaw, D., Lepp, M., & Zorn, C. R. (2007). International research collaboration: Building teams and managing conflicts. Conflict Resolution Quarterly 24(4): 433–446.

Balay, R. (2006) Conflict management strategies of administrators and teachers. Asian Journal of Management Cases 3(1): 5–24.

Everard, K. B., Morris, G., & Wilson, I. (2004). Effective School Management (4th ed.). London: Paul Chapman Publishing.

Fayol, H. (1949). General and Industrial Management. London: Pitman.

Henkin, A. B., & Holliman, S. L. (2009). Urban teacher commitment: Exploring associations with organisational conflicts, support for innovation and participation. Urban Education 44(2): 160–180.

Kantek, F. & Gezer, N. (2009). Conflict in schools: Student nurses’ conflict management styles. Nurse Education Today 29(1): 100–107.

Kapusuzoglu, S. (2010). An investigation of conflict resolution in educational organisations. African Journal of Business Management 4(1): 96–102.

Mullins, L. J. (2007). Management and Organisational Behaviour (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Rahim, M. A., (2001). Managing Conflicts in Organizations (3rd ed.). London and Westport, CT: Quorum Books.

Rahim, M. A. (2010). Managing Conflicts in Organizations (4th ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Rahim, M. A. Garrett, J. E., & Buntzman, G. F. (1992). Ethics of managing inter-personal conflicts in organizations. Journal of Business Ethics 11(5–6): 423–432.

Shih, H. A., & Susanto, E. (2010). Conflict management styles, emotional intelligence and job performance in public organisations. The International Journal of Conflict Management 21(2): 147–168.

Somech, A. (2008). Managing conflict in school teams: The impact of task and goal interdependence on conflict management and team effectiveness. Educational Administration Quarterly 44(3): 359–390.

Taylor, F. (1911). The Principles of scientific Management. New York: Harper and Row.

Toziou, S. (2012). The contribution of school principal in managing conflicts among primary school educators: The case of prefectures Imathias and Thessaloniki. Master’s Dissertation, University the Aegean.

Tekos, G., & Iordanidis, G. (2011). School leadership and conflict management style from the school educators’ perspective. Pedagogiki Epitheorisi 51: 199–217.

Tjosvold, D., & Hui, C. (2001). Leadership in China: Recent studies on relationship building. Advances in Global Leadership 2(2): 127–151.

Tjosvold, D., & Su, F. S. (2004). Cooperative conflict management as a basis for training students in China. Theory Into Practice 43(1): 80–86.

Trudel, J., & Reio, J. (2011). Managing workplace incivility: The role of conflict management styles – antecedent or antidote? Human Resource Development Quarterly 22(4): 395–423.

Weber, M. (1947). The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.




Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.