Relationship Between Leader Member Interaction and Conflict Management Style: A Field Research

The aim of this study is to determine the effects of behavioral styles on the subordinates of leading people in management.Leader-member interaction quality is seen as the primary factor in the management method of the organization. Conflict management directly and positively affects the relationship between employees. The importance of leader-member interaction on the culture of conflict emerges precisely here. Research in Turkey covers employees who work in the tourism sector. The aim of this study is to determine which conflict management style is preferred more frequently in the relationship between leader and member. For this reason, data were obtained from 138 employees in the tourism sector. According to the survey results; It has been found that the employees in the tourism sector mostly choose integration and least avoidance conflict management style. In this sense, it is determined that they have positive relations with leader member relations integrating, compliance-compromise, and reconciliation conflict management styles. There was no significant relationship between avoidance conflict management style. On the other hand, it was determined that the corporate, corporate image and social culture codes had an impact on the leader-member interaction process