Relationships Among Personality, Conflict Resolution Styles, and Task Effectiveness

Using a sample of 114 MBA students in a Business Policy simulation, relationships among personality, conflict-handling modes of behav ior, and group task effectiveness are hypothesized and tested Empiri cal support was found associating personality with preference for the smoothing forcing and confrontation modes of conflict resolution. These preferences were associated with actual behaviors and the ac tual behaviors were associated with group task effectiveness.