ABSTRACT
Although prior research has shown that conflict-handling styles are determined by individuals’ cultural value orientations and emotional intelligence, the results are often mixed and inconclusive. In this chapter, we meta-analytically synthesize the existing empirical evidence and, in this way, provide a more comprehensive and more precise foundation for practitioners and future research. The results of the bivariate meta-analysis and meta-analytic structural equation modeling show that different sets of cultural value orientations and emotional intelligence are associated with different conflict-handling styles and that specifically uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation are related to preferences for compromising and integrating conflict-handling style via emotional intelligence. Additionally, our results show that various cultural value orientations are directly associated with different conflict-handling styles. Our results provide a more accurate and more robust empirical description of the relevance and the interrelationships of cultural value orientations and emotional intelligence in the formation of preferences for different conflict-handling styles.
