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One of the essential aspects of an organization's existence is conflict. One matter that needs to be taken into consideration in order to address this issue and mitigate the detrimental effects of workplace conflicts is conflict management. The purpose of this essay is to investigate the connection between preferred conflict resolution style and personality attributes. The Big Five Traits Model is chosen for personality evaluation. Extrovertism, conscientiousness, openness to new things, emotional stability, and agreeableness are the big five personality traits. The five styles of addressing conflicts include cooperating, avoiding, accommodating, competing, and compromising. This paper covers two personality traits Extraversion and Openness to experience and only two conflict-handling styles i.e. avoiding and competing. A total of 250 students are randomly selected for data collection. Description and correlation are used for analysis. This research paper discusses conflict resolution strategies as well as personality traits to get new experiences. Research findings indicate a strong correlation between an individual's personality type and the form of conflict resolution they choose. The report discusses both the practical and future research implications of the investigation