Volume 13, Issue 2A and 2B, 2025

Conflict Management Strategies as Determinant of Teachers Job Satisfaction in Lagos State Senior Secondary Students, Education District V

Orunbon Nurudeen Olalekan, DairoTaiwo Sunday,Olusanya Kaoli Olatunji, AyeniPaul Oluwapamilerin& AhmedRukayat Bukola

Abstract

This research investigates conflict management strategies as determinant of
teachers job satisfaction in Lagos State senior secondary schools, Education
District V. Survey research design was used in conducting the research. The
study population consists of all teachers in public senior secondary schools in
Education District V, Lagos State. A sample of 125 respondents were selected
through simple random sampling technique. A structured questionnaire titled
Conflict Management Strategeis and Teachers Job Satisfaction Questionnaire
(CMTTJSQ) was developed to obtain data from the respondents after
ascertaining its validity and the reliability coefficient obtained was 0.75.
Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) statistical method was used to
analyse the formulated hypotheses. Findings from this study revealed that
there is no significant relationship between avoiding conflict management
strategy and teachers job satisfaction in public senior secondary schools in
Education District V, with (r = .773; N=125; p< .05; also results obtained from
hypothesis two indicates that there is a significant relationship between
collaborating conflict management strategy and teachers job satisfaction in
public senior secondary schools in Education District V, with (r = .812;
N=125; p< .05). This study concluded that conflicts and crisis in school
management have diverse causes which vary with places and times; the effects
can be negative and/or positive depending on how they are managed. Finally,
the study recommended that school managers can use avoidance conflict
management strategy while dealing with trivial issues in public senior
secondary schools in Education District V. Collaborating conflict management
strategy which has been proved to be the best conflict management strategy
should be adopted by principals in public senior secondary schools in
Education District V.

Keywords

Avoiding Strategy of Conflict Management, Collaborating Strategy of Conflict Management, Teachers Job Satisfaction

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