creator Burris, Kimberly R. advisor Ayman, Roya The current study examined leaders’ and subordinates’ conflict management strategies and how they relate to dyadic relationship quality. While a number of prior studies have investigated individual CMS styles and their association with outcomes of interest (including measures of relationship quality), this was the first study to measure and analyze full CMS profiles from both upward and downward perspectives. In high-quality LMX conditions, this study found a high degree of similarity between supervisors’ and subordinates’ full CMS profiles towards each other. Both supervisors and subordinates were higher on agreeable (i.e. integrating, obliging, and compromising) than disagreeable (i.e. dominating and avoiding) CMS. In low/moderate-quality LMX, supervisors and subordinates had dissimilar CMS profiles. The potential causes of differences between supervisor and subordinate CMS in low/moderate-quality LMX were explored. Contributions to the CMS research and practical implications were discussed. Submitted by Dana Lamparello (dlampare@iit.edu) on 2012-02-29T16:53:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Burris Masters Final.pdf: 3752209 bytes, checksum: f4e9a3efecb0e3089cec04810b7d21ed (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-02-29T16:53:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Burris Masters Final.pdf: 3752209 bytes, checksum: f4e9a3efecb0e3089cec04810b7d21ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05 M.S. in Psychology, May 2011 2011-03-23 2011-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2529 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access PSYCH / Institute of Psychology Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department