Conflict Management Strategies and Practiced Pinoy Leadership Styles of Elementary School Administrators in the District of Atimonan, Division of Quezon: Implication to School Management

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

An organization does not exist as smoothly as anyone would wish its operations to be because conflicts are inevitable. Conflicts seem to be a part of an organizational life and as such, a manager or administrator has to deal with it. Whether it is a conflict between subordinates or between supervisor and subordinates, somehow it has to be settled or resolved.

The school as an educational institution has people in its organizational structure that may experience conflicts and school administrators who are accountable for the quality of their educational delivery systems and among these are people who continually experience conflict. Hence, it is a school administrator's responsibility to handle an organizational conflict. In doing so, the school administrator tries to find an answer or solution to a conflict.

METHODS

Using descriptive and correlational method of research, particularly the survey method, questionnaires were designed to gather data and were administered to the respondents from the 27 schools in Atimonan, Quezon. The respondents for this study were chosen purposively and interviewed to check the gathered data through questionnaire. To interpret the data gathered, frequency, percentage, rank, and chi-square were used as statistical measures with significance level set at 0.5.

RESULTS

Findings of the study revealed that for management strategy, collaboration is the most commonly employed ranking in the first place. This was followed by compromise, competition and accommodation in this order. Pinoy leadership styles practiced are: "Kayod", "Libro", "Lusot", and "Ugnayan" . The highest practiced style of the school administrators isleadership by "ugnayan" in rank 1. Ranked second to fourth in this order are" leadership by "Libro", leadership "Kayod" and leadership by "Lusot" .

DISCUSSIONS

It was deduced from the results that the leadership style is not independent from conflict management strategies which means that the school administrators regardless of their leadership style may utilize any of the conflict management strategy for the purpose. This also implies that the administrators must be reoriented on the use of the different management strategies in performing their management functions. An intervention has been proposed which may be adopted by other schools to strengthen collaboration as conflict management strategy and ugnayan as pinoy leadership style in other districts in the Division of Quezon.