Conflict Management Strategies for Effective Goal Attainment in Rivers State Owned Public Universities

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Education provides the foundation for gaining the knowledge, skills, habits, and values required to make a constructive contribution to society. This study examined conflict management strategies for effective goal attainment in Rivers State owned public universities. Effective communication, win/lose and smoothing were used as the dimensions while effective goal attainment was used as the measure. This study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of this study consist of the two public universities owned by Rivers State, namely: Rivers State University (RSU) and Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE). There were a total of 1519 lecturers from the two Rivers State owned public universities. This consists of 1046 staff from Rivers State University and 473 staff from Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (Source

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