ABSTRACT

This paper examines the relationship between culture and organizational conflicts in Cameroon. Culture being the man-made part of the environment or the sum total of the creative effusions from man or his ingenuity engaged in the task of conquering or mastering multiple facets of his environment for survival could be both a veritable factor in engendering or preempting conflicts. Beyond the basic conceptual clarifications, this research paper categorizes industrial conflicts and assesses the role of culture in industrial conflicts. Majoring on secondary authoritative data and internet sources and presented in a thematic and chronological style, the paper argues that if not tactfully harnessed, cultural diversity can be a veritable trigger of conflicts in organizational settings with attendant consequences and the same can serve as a reliable approach to resolving conflicts in industrial contexts once they have occurred as seen in Cameroon. In the dialogue on industrial conflicts in Cameroon and elsewhere therefore, the agency of culture cannot be marginal for every human effort and action is informed by culture.