Individuals in this globalisation era are inclined to believe that women are affected by conflict negatively and have difficulty working with one another this thought makes ‗Woman Employees and Workplace conflict' an emerging issues in Women empowerment. This research aims to understand the behaviour of women employees when they are in a conflict situation. The study reveals that rather to confront the situation they avoid the situation as to protect their self-image to be judged by colleagues.

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... This research also contributes to the body of existing literature; specifically, it will inspire the women employees to understand and manage conflict in the organisations. A survey of 60 employees of NTPC, Patna (ER-HQ1) a Public Sector Company was made to test the hypothesis. The results of this study suggest that woman employees get affected by conflict leading to stress, tension and further it was found that male observers are inclined to problematize conflict among women at work relative to conflict among women and leading to the tendency of thought that might be partly responsible for perception that women have difficulty working with one another. This research provides empirical evidence to support this notion and for this purpose the review of literature was made on workplace conflict among women and suggestions are made to address the problems faced by women employees in the context of conflict study.