Swim or Sink Together: The Potential of Collective Team Identification and Team Member Alignment for Separating Task and Relationship Conflicts
- This article investigates collective team identification and team member alignment (i.e., the existence of short- and long-term team goals and team-based reward structures) as moderators of the association between task and relationship conflicts. Being indicators of cooperative goal interdependence in teams, both moderators are hypothesized to mitigate the positive association between the two conflict types. Findings from 88 development teams confirm the moderating effect for collective team identification, but not for team member alignment. Moreover, the moderating role of collective team identification is found to be dependent on the level of task conflict: It is more effective in decoupling task and relationship conflicts at medium as compared with high or low levels of task conflict.
| Author details: | Melanie Schaeffner, Hendrik Hüttermann, Diether Gebert, Sabine Boerner, Eric KearneyORCiDGND, Lynda Jiwen Song |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601114561059 |
| ISSN: | 1059-6011 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3993 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Group & organization management |
| Publisher: | Sage Publ. |
| Place of publishing: | Thousand Oaks |
| Publication type: | Review |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2015 |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | collective team identification; cooperative goal interdependence; relationship conflict; task conflict; team member alignment |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 33 |
| First page: | 467 |
| Last Page: | 499 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 90 |
