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

A survey of literature revealed that most studies took heed of just th e single, specialised dimension of conflict and more or less ignored o ther dimensions: role conflict, organisational conflict and their corr elates. To obtain measures of the correlates and their variance share on role conflict and organisational conflict, a questionnaire survey w as conducted on a sample of 100 middle level executives from four medi um sized organisations. Bivariate analysis showed statistically signif icant negative correlations with age, tenure, job involvement, work in volvement and role efficacy. Stepwise multiple regression revealed tha t role efficacy accounted for 22 per cent variance of role conflict pe rception. 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.