The Relationship between Individualism, Collectivism and Conflict Handling Styles of Healthcare Employees

Proceedings 2019 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference Phm Paris 2019 · Mayıs 2019

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DergiProceedings 2019 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference Phm Paris 2019

Yayın TarihiMayıs 2019

DOI10.1109/PHM-Paris.2019.00036

Özet The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between individualism, collectivism and conflict handling styles of healthcare employees. This study was conducted among 427 healthcare employees in twelve hospitals in Turkey by using survey method and simple random sampling. The scales of Conflict Handling Styles and Individualism and Collectivism (INDCOL) were performed within the study. The obtained data were analyzed with descriptive analysis, correlation, and confirmative factor analysis and regression analysis. As a result of the study, it was found that horizontal collectivism, vertical collectivism and horizontal individualism have impacted on compromising and integrating conflict handling styles and horizontal collectivism has influenced obliging integrating conflict handling styles also vertical individualism has influenced dominating and avoiding conflict handling styles significantly.