Conflicts and Improvement Strategies for Coexistence among Secondary School Teachers in Isiala Mbano LGA, Imo State

Abstract

This study was embarked on to find out the conflicts and improvement strategies adopted for coexistence among secondary school teachers in IsialaMbano L.G.A. The cross-sectional survey research design was adopted and three research questions guided the study. The multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select a sample of 108government secondary school teachers that were used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a researcher-made questionnaire which was validated by three experts in research work and the reliability of the instrument was also determined using the Spearman Rank Order correlation formula and a correlation coefficient of 0.85 was obtained. The data were analysed using frequencies and percentages. The following findings emerged: Secondary school teachers experienced a lot of conflicts. These conflicts cut across, communication conflict, goal conflict, personality conflict and others. The study showed that the commonest coexistence strategies employed by the teachers were compromising, accommodating, collaborating, among others. It was then recommended that periodic training are provided for teachers in IsialaMbanoLocal Government Area.