A study on conflict management of higher secondary school head masters in relation to their teachers job satisfaction in Villupuram District

The impact of industrialization has brought rapid change in our society, bringing a cultural change which is based on technology, industry and urban life style. This change has impacted in a way of life characterized by the proximity and brought dependency among the people as terms and conditions of social life and harboring the threats to human conflict. These threats of social integrity are present in all societies ranging from primitive to modern and in the contemporary era. But when the people shifted from a relatively primitive to a relatively technologically advanced society, along with the emergence of industrial civilization; these threats of human conflict gave rise to numerous psychological and sociological problems. As the very existence of every society rests on harmonious relations of its people and processes, such problems jeopardize a relatively new technological society like ours. With the advancement of technology in the industrial field the situation became so complicated that it drew the attention of not only the industrialists but also the Government and social activists of the nation. The human evolution has undergone mammoth changes since its origin millions of years ago in the Stone Age. It was then that animals and human beings moved into a local habitat and established the web of interactions characterizing an ecosystem. With time, dramatic shifts had completely remodeled the habitat, with the survival of the fittest. Ultimately, new species inhabited different areas; but the ancestors of human beings found a niche in every habitat. Homo sapiens, through millions of years of civilization had experienced drastic changes, not only at physical, but also at an emotional level. All the other species in the history of evolution were forced to adjust or to leave, but not humans. Over an extended gradual series of changes, the species of human beings began to grow and mature with intelligence and emerged on the top in the hierarchal pyramid of civilization and intellect. Human beings have been learning about conflict throughout its development and with their flare for learning, experimenting, innovation forced the situations to become their slave and have mastered the art of solving conflicts through generations (Van De Vliert, 1997).