The findings suggest that there is less number of strategies that have significant impact on the overall
communication climate as perceived by the management level (see Table 7). There is no significant relationship
between non-confrontation or control strategies and the communication climate. There is however a significantly
strong positive relationship between confrontation and the organizational communication climate as perceived by
the top management of the oil and gas company under study. Different from the executives who perceive integrated
approach to managing conflicts through compromise, confrontational and control strategies would have an impact in
maintaining supportive communication climate, the management’s approach is however only limited to
confrontational and compromise.