Conflict management styles of Turkish managers

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 419-438

  Özkalp, Enver ^a   Sungur, Zerrin ^a   Özdemir, Aytül Ayşe ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conflict management; Management styles; Organizational conflict; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549109454     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090590910966571     Document Type: Article

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