Efficient top management processes are crucial for firm performance, not only because of the high importance of strategic decision-making and governance for shareholder value creation. Hence, conflict and, correspondingly, the appropriate management of conflict have grown in importance, especially when considering the high uncertainty that is coupled with strategic decision-making due to fast changing environments and new, emergent strategic options nowadays. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between demographic characteristics, job stress, and cognitive and affective conflict that Chinese top managers face. Through survey data and analysis, we conclude that age is in negative relation with job stress and that the higher the educational level of top managers, the more cognitive conflict they will experience. In turn, the more cognitive conflict, the more affective conflict will be experienced. In addition, we find that job stress is in positive association with cognitive conflict. Finally and most importantly, our results indicate that Chinese top managers are inclined to using integrating to handle conflict, which seems to be generally inconsistent with the traditional Chinese culture.