The relationship between conflict and academic staffs performance at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Gong Badak / Wan Syuhada Wan Ibrahim

Conflict is the most threaten in this nation among various departments in the organization and mostly this situation is happened in public sector. The employees performance is the most important element for the successful of organization and they are expected to work more effectively without job s tress. In an organization, it has many people and is split into small groups and it's natural to see any differences opinion from the employees. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the conflict and employees' performance and whether the conflicts are affecting the employees' performance. The sample of this study consisted of 90 academic staffs working in different faculties at UniSZA. An abstracted questionnaire was used to collect data regarding demographic information, relationship conflict, task conflict, organizational conflict and employee performance.