European Journal of Business and Innovation Research (EJBIR)

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Alternative dispute resolution

Employee Engagement Strategies and Organizational Conflict Management. A Study of Hospitality Industry in Delta State, Nigeria (Published)

The study was conducted to examine the effect of employee engagement practices on organizational conflict management.  The study, anchored on the stakeholders’ theory, adopted the survey research design hence data were collected from primary sources through the use of a structured questionnaire. The population of the study consists employees of hospitality firms in Delta State, Nigeria. Findings of the study show that internal mediation, collective bargaining and alternative dispute resolution strategies have a significant positive effect on organizational conflict management. The study also finds that employee task definition has a positive but not a significant impact on organizational conflict management and concludes that workforce conflict engagement practices influence the implementation of conflict management in hospitality companies in Delta State, Nigeria. The study recommends amongst others that managers should adopt collective bargaining and alternative dispute resolution strategies since they are found to be effective in managing conflicts in organizations.

 

Keywords: Alternative dispute resolution, Employee Engagement, Mediation, collective bargaining, conflict management, task definition

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