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Abstract
The study examined the assessment of business manager’s conflict resolution skills and organizational productivity of textile industries in Nigeria. In order to carry out this study, two specified research objectives were drawn from which null hypotheses were formulated and used for the study. The research design for this study is an Expost Facto design. The population of the study consisted of all business in South-South and South West geo-political zones in Nigeria. A sample of 1325 textile business managers was used for the study using Yaro Yamane out of the population. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. The instrument was validated by two experts in Test and Measurement, University of Calabar, Calabar. Crombach Alpha reliability technique was used for testing the reliability of the instrument and reliability index of .77 was realized, hence the instrument was regard as being reliable. Data from 1325 completed questionnaires was subjected to pearson products correlation analysis. The findings showed and concluded that there is significant relationship between business manager’s conflict resolution skills and organizational productivity of textile industries in Nigeria. The organization’s management and other organization should employ the use of integration method of managing conflicts because of it enormous advantages over other methods. Since organizational performance is a function of conflict management, its mechanism in organization should be straighten more in order to further the improvement in the organization’s performance
Keywords
Business Manager
Conflict Resolution
Skills
Textile Industries