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Area of Science:

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Team Dynamics
  • Conflict Management

Background:

  • Task conflict, while potentially beneficial, often escalates into relationship conflict within teams.
  • Previous research focused on interpersonal factors to mitigate this escalation.
  • An alternative perspective is needed to understand performance-related moderators.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the moderating role of perceived team performance on the relationship between task conflict and relationship conflict growth.
  • To propose and test a model based on social identity theory.

Main Methods:

  • A three-wave longitudinal study was conducted with 60 teams in a healthcare organization.
  • Random coefficient growth modeling was employed to analyze the data.

Main Results:

  • Task conflict was found to relate to an increase in relationship conflict only when perceived team performance was low.
  • Perceived team performance did not moderate the relationship between task conflict and relationship conflict growth when performance was high.

Conclusions:

  • Perceived team performance plays a crucial role in decoupling task conflict from relationship conflict.
  • Teams with high perceived performance may be better equipped to manage task disagreements without interpersonal friction.