Abstract
The authors develop and test theoretical extensions of the relationships of task conflict, relationship conflict, and 2 dimensions of team effectiveness (performance and team-member satisfaction) among 2 samples of work teams in Taiwan and Indonesia. Findings show that relationship conflict moderates the task conflict-team performance relationship. Specifically, the relationship is curvilinear in the shape of an inverted U when relationship conflict is low, but the relationship is linear and negative when relationship conflict is high. The results for team-member satisfaction are more equivocal, but the findings provide some evidence that relationship conflict exacerbates the negative relationship between task conflict and team-member satisfaction.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 391-400 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Psychology |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2011 |
Keywords
- Relationship conflict
- Task conflict
- Team performance
- Team processes