TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schaeffner, Melanie
A1  - Hüttermann, Hendrik
A1  - Gebert, Diether
A1  - Boerner, Sabine
A1  - Kearney, Eric
A1  - Song, Lynda Jiwen
T1  - Swim or Sink Together: The Potential of Collective Team Identification and Team Member Alignment for Separating Task and Relationship Conflicts
JF  - Group & organization management
N2  - 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.
KW  - task conflict
KW  - relationship conflict
KW  - collective team identification
KW  - team member alignment
KW  - cooperative goal interdependence
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601114561059
SN  - 1059-6011
SN  - 1552-3993
VL  - 40
IS  - 4
SP  - 467
EP  - 499
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -