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January 1, 2003Journal of Applied Psychology

Task versus relationship conflict, team performance, and team member satisfaction: A meta-analysis.

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CDCarsten K. W. De DreuUniversity of EssexLWLaurie R. WeingartUniversity of Central Florida

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Implication

Meta-analysis reveals negative correlations between relationship conflict, task conflict, and team outcomes, suggesting implications for team dynamics.

Key Points

  • The research investigates how task and relationship conflicts relate to team performance and member satisfaction.
  • Conducted a meta-analysis of existing studies on conflict types and their impacts on teams.
  • Analyzed correlations between task conflict, relationship conflict, team performance, and team member satisfaction.
  • Examined the influence of task complexity on the relationship between conflicts and performance.
  • Strong negative correlations were found between relationship conflict and both team performance and member satisfaction.
  • Task conflict showed unexpected strong negative correlations with team performance and satisfaction.
  • Conflict was found to be more detrimental to performance in complex tasks compared to simpler tasks.

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Dreu et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d80937f39344339dd18fcfhttps://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.88.4.741
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