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Area of Science:

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Team Dynamics
  • Conflict Management

Background:

  • Power disparity, unequal resource control in teams, negatively impacts performance.
  • Mechanisms and boundary conditions of power disparity's impact are underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the mediating role of team conflict (relationship and task) in the power disparity-team performance relationship.
  • To examine the moderating effect of power congruence on these pathways.

Main Methods:

  • Survey data collected from 62 teams.
  • Statistical analyses including reliability, validity, confirmatory factor analysis, and hierarchical regression were employed.

Main Results:

  • Power disparity negatively affects performance via relationship conflict, and positively via task conflict.
  • The negative indirect effect of relationship conflict was stronger than the positive effect of task conflict.
  • Power congruence attenuated negative relationship conflict and strengthened positive task conflict.

Conclusions:

  • Power disparity has a dual pathway effect on team performance, predominantly negative due to relationship conflict.
  • Power congruence mitigates harmful conflict and promotes beneficial debate, offering practical insights for team power structures.