Journal of Social Science Research Vol 14 (2019) ISSN: 2321-1091 https://cirworld.com/index.php/jssr 3390 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v14i0.8524 Role of Conflict Management Styles on Managers’ Self-Efficiency at Iranian Schools in Tehran Province Aida Mehrad Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Department of Basic, Evolutionary and Educational Psychology Campus de la UAB 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) Barcelona, Spain mehrad.aida@gmail.com Abstract The importance of management in different segments of the workplace and monitoring of organizational behaviors that appear from managers is supercritical and should be considered increasingly. In some cases, the manager may be faced with different issues and difficulties in the management process, and the level of his/ her performance, and efficiency decreases; furthermore, concentrating more on various aspects of the management when the conflict happened is extremely extensive. By the way, the present research focused on the role of conflict management styles on self-efficiency amongst 259 mangers (men and women) who worked at governmental schools in Tehran Province, Iran. Moreover, the researcher collected the data via two questionnaires; which comprised The Conflict Management Questionnaire, which is proposed by Izadi Yazdan Abadi, and The Self-Efficiency Scale that is developed by Sherer. The findings derived from data analyzing in SPSS Software and illustrated there is a significant relationship between conflict management styles with mangers self-efficiency at school. Additionally, the styles of conflict management included five main styles such as Accommodating, Avoidance, Collaboration, Competing, and Compromising that have a meaningful relationship with Self-Efficiency. The results shown that Collaboration has a positive association with mangers self-efficiency and increases its level; on the other hand, Avoidance has a negative relation with the efficiency of managers at schools. Besides, with using styles of conflict management in the correct way that obtain via knowing them perfectly, managers can improve their efficiency and achievement; correspondingly, they endeavor to cope with difficulties and issues at the workplace. Keyword: Accommodating, Avoidance, Collaboration, Competing, Compromising, Conflict Management Styles, Managers, Self-efficiency, School 1. Introduction Managers in different segments and societies usually attempt to find a suitable solution way to monitoring and decreasing different types of issues (Fiedler & Chemers, 1974). Therefore, these attempts can be helpful for providing a peaceful work environment for the whole members. One of these uncommon issues that can appear in many types of workplaces is the presence of conflict amongst managers. In this regard, understanding the real context of management and its key role in the workplace can be useful for those who are working in this position. Incidentally, the current examination considered the role of conflict management and applying the styles of conflict management on managers' self-efficiency at schools that assumed as one of the principal educational places in all countries and societies. 1.2 Conflict Management and Role of its Styles Management expected as one of the organizational factors that have deep antiquity. As well, it should be explored from the family as a principle and first stage; then, it will be continued to society, and the work environment (Fiedler & Chemers, 1974). Exceptionally, the management recognized as an important factor for an extensive range of social sciences that should be molded very regular; with this explanation, a manager must distinguish lots of plans and approaches in that field. As it happens, a manager should emphasize on the