Team Leader’s Conflict Management Style and Team Innovation Performance in Remote R&D Teams—With Team Climate Perspective

Remote work has become a new way of working due to the influence COVID-19 pandemic, which inevitably aggravates team conflicts caused by cognitive differences given lack face-to-face communication. With climate perspective, this paper investigates impact leader’s conflict management style on innovation performance in remote R&D teams China based social cognition theory and two-dimension theory. A theoretical model is constructed describes mediating effect psychological safety moderating trust. Paired data from 118 including leaders 446 members were collected. The results show that cooperative conducive enhancing further effectively improves performance. Therefore, between In addition, trust negative safety. Besides, study obtains some valuable culture-related insights provides more views for research cross-cultural context since samples are China, society with high collectivism, different western cultural many theories develop.