Relationship between conflict management styles and teachersʹʹ creativity in west Mazandaran province high schools, Iran

ABSTRACT: The present research tries to investigate Relationship between conflict management styles and teachersʹ creativity in west Mazandaran province high schools. This research is a descriptive one which has been conducted using correlation method. Statistical population of the research includes all managers and teachers (male and female) of west Mazandaran province high schools, which are 175 managers and 2396 teachers. Sample size is 123 managers and 331 teachers which were chosen via Morgan table and categorical-accidental method. Data gathering method is library and field method, data gathering tool was Tomasʹs conflict management styles questionnaire and Rensibʹs creativity questionnaire. Pearsonʹs correlation coefficient and step-by-step regression and variance analysis were used to analyze data. Findings showed that: There exists significant relationship between conflict management styles (collaboration, accommodation, competition, compromise and avoidance) and teachersʹ creativity. There exists positive and significant relationship between collaboration, accommodation, and compromise and teachers creativity, but there exists negative and significant relationship between avoidance and competition with teachersʹ creativity. Collaboration and avoidance styles had the highest shares in predicting teachersʹ creativity.