ABSTRACT

Conflict Management Strategies and its Impacts on performance of Corporate Institutes. The research adopted National Roots Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike as the case study. Conflict ordinarily is not bad and it should not be taken as a sign of bad management or administration. Rather timely resolution of conflicts will always reduce unnecessary cost on the Institute both in terms of money and time in the corporate institutes, which is also a paradigm reflection of organizational conflict. In the research process, a population of 500 was adopted with which we determined our sample size of 222 using Yaro Yamene’s methodology. Primary data was collected using Questionnaire and analyzed with simple percentage. The major null hypothesis which was lack of conflict management strategy has no impact in the performance of corporate institutes. The hypothesis was tested using z-score. This null hypothesis was rejected and the implied alternative was accepted. Thus, the research concluded that conflict management strategy has greater impact on the performance of corporate institutes. Hence, in recommend therefore, the adoption of conflict management and resolution strategies. This is because is it natural that the interaction of people, nations, states, organizations and more especially institutes can bring about various kinds of conflict, or opposition between. Disagreement and dissatisfaction when handled well can move the institute forward, because it will lead to the reexamination of basic assumptions, policies, objectives, Practices and bring about improvement of overall efficiency and effectiveness.