I will be attending the 2014 AHRD International Conference in the Americas. This AHRD conference will take place in Houston, TX, from 2/19/2014 to 2/22/2014.
I will be introducing a new construct to the literature on team conflict. The current literature identifies team conflict as being multidimensional, consisting of task, relationship, and process conflict (Behfar, Mannix, Peterson, & Trochim, 2011; Greer, Jehn, & Mannix, 2008; Jehn & Chatman, 2000; & Song, Dyer, & Thieme, 2006). Task conflict looks primarily at work related issues, relationship conflict looks at personal or social issues not relating to work, and process conflict relates to procedural issues.
In one of my areas of interest/study, team cognition, there have been many advances in the literature identifying the different cognitive processes that take place in teams and small groups. From these advances I fell that the addition of a new construct, team cognition conflict, should be incorporated into the team conflict literature. The cognition conflict construct is a separate construct from those that have been previously identified in the literature, placing the team conflict constructs as having four main sub-dimensions: task, relationship, process, and cognition conflict. By further differentiating team conflict into better defined dimensions researchers will be able to clearly identify team conflict, providing better predictive measures for team performance and decision making abilities. This addition to the team conflict literature also responds to Song, Dyer, and Thieme's (2006) call for further research identifying different types of team conflict.
The model presented below introduces the outline of the team conflict theoretical framework that will be presented in the AHRD conference in a roundtable format.
References:
Behfar, K. J., Mannix, E. A., Peterson, R. S., & Trochim, W. M. (2011). Conflict in small groups: The meaning and consequences of process conflict. Small Group Research, 42, 127-176. doi:10.1177/1046496410389194
Greer, L. L., Jehn, K. A., & Mannix, E. A. (2008). Conflict transformation: A longitudinal investigation of the relationships between different types of intragroup conflict and the moderating role of conflict resolution. Small Group Research, 39, 278-302. doi:10.1177/1046496408317793
Jehn, K. A., & Chatman, J. A. (2000). The influence of proportional and perceptual conflict composition on team performance. The International Journal of Conflict Management, 11, 56-73. doi:10.1108/eb022835
Song, M., Dyer, B, & Thieme, J. R. (2006). Conflict management and innovation performance: an integrative contingency perspective. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 34, 341-356. doi:10.1177/00092070306286705
Turner, J. R. (2014). Team cognition conflict: A conceptual review identifying cognition conflict as a new team conflict construct. Paper to be presented at the 2014 AHRD International Conference in the Americas, April 2014. [forthcoming presentation]
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