Volume : 1, Issue : 7, December - 2012

Exploring the Role of Intra–Cultural Diversity in Defining Conflict Types and Managing Conflict Using Different Conflict Management Style � with Special Reference to India

Prabu Christopher, Ismail Celik

Abstract :

In current world of globalization, it is well known fact that, major concern for practitioners is to give their focus towards behavioral aspects of their employees to elicit better performance especially when they are running operations in multi cultural environment. Researchers and practitioners overwhelmingly accepted that proper framework of human resource policy will lead a company with full integrity, and it is the extent to which top management gives priority to value orientations in particular. This value orientation has its own research history from 1940’s, thanks to the anthropologists. Nevertheless modern mangers have given a thought to this value orientation in their respective forums. Even many research works have also been conducted to find the correlation between values and organizational variables like job satisfaction etc. There are many outcomes that organization is expecting from this value orientation, one such is how far employees are able to adjust themselves when they are facing multi cultural environment. This paper through review of literature on organizational values, individual values and cultural values, tries to derive few assumptions in Indian context, how these values and subcultures are influencing conflict management style among Indians. This study tries to create a platform for cross cultural researchers who are concentrating on Intra cultural diversity, as the research of integrating Intra cultural diversity and conflict management styles seems to be sparse in nature in Indian context.