The study aims to identify the degree of mental alertness among the principals in Kuwait and its relation to conflict management strategies from the point of view of the teachers. The study consisted of (423) male and female teachers. They were selected in the simple random sampling method. The descriptive method was used. The researchers used a questionnaire consisting of (34) items for the areas of mental alertness (discrimination, attention, observation, awareness, and thinking) and (25) items for the areas of conflict management strategies (satisfaction, settlement, integration, avoidance, and domination). The availability of mental alertness among school principals in the State of Kuwait from the teachers' point of view came to a high degree, and that the arithmetic average of the level of school principals' practice in the State of Kuwait in conflict management strategies from the teachers' point of view was (high), and the presence of a positive statistically significant correlation between the estimates of the sample members on the degree of availability of mental alertness among school principals in the State of Kuwait and the level of their practice of conflict management strategies.

Keywords: mental alertness, organizational conflict strategies, school principals, teachers.

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