The Relationship between Conflict Management Styles and the Effectiveness of Premier Football League Teams of Hamadan Province

A B S T R A C T Conflict is a process in which one party feels that other groups have prevented him from doing other activities, interests and goals. Conflict comes about when two or more people come into clash with each other because of difference in their needs, wants, aims and values. It is an indispensible part of team works which, if not properly managed, can result failure or even success for a team. The present research aims at studying the relations between conflict management styles and the effectiveness of football teams from Hamadan province present at the premier league. This study is of descriptivecorrelational type that has been conducted based on case study. Three different questionnaires were applied for collecting the necessary data: one for getting the demographic information of the subjects; Robbins’ questionnaire of conflict management (1991), and Moghimi’s (2013) questionnaire for team effectiveness. The statistical community of the study consisted of all the players of football teams in Hamadan province in 2013 from among whom 113 ones were randomly selected as the subjects of the study. Results from applying the Pearson correlation coefficient to the data showed that there was a significantly inverse relation between conflict management styles of completion and team effectiveness (P<0.05). It was also found to be a significant relation between conflict management styles of collaboration and team effectiveness, and finally between conflict management style of avoidance and team effectiveness (P<0.05). we can conclude that collaboration style is the best and most effective one for facing and overcoming conflicts in the teams. Applications of this style can enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the teams.