Past literature shows that workflows will be performed with greater efficiency and/or effectiveness if workflow teams have higher group cohesiveness. The major contribution of this work in progress is the creation and implementation of a formal generalized methodology that incorporates ideas from two diverse fields: social network theory and workflow modeling, and allows optimization of work gr...

The authors develop and test theoretical extensions of the relationships of task conflict, relationship conflict, and 2 dimensions of team effectiveness (performance and team-member satisfaction) among 2 samples of work teams in Taiwan and Indonesia. Findings show that relationship conflict moderates the task conflict-team performance relationship. Specifically, the relationship is curvilinear ...

This study provides a meta-analysis of research on the associations between relationship conflict, task conflict, team performance, and team member satisfaction. Consistent with past theorizing, results revealed strong and negative correlations between relationship conflict, team performance, and team member satisfaction. In contrast to what has been suggested in both academic research and intr...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), like groupware systems, intranet or videoconference, enable team members to work on the same project but from different places. Some teams are called virtual because they exist only through the network. As the work is geographically distributed, bonds and relationships between people become more important. Indeed, the lack of faceto-face com...

Maslow created a hierarchy of needs for the individual. He placed the needs in a hierarchy such that only after the needs of a layer are satisfied would an individual care about the needs in the next layer. Using Maslow's insight we create a hierarchy of needs for the team. In this paper we map the needs of a software development team to the need layers that Maslow prescribed for the individual...

We investigate how two different types of conflict (task conflict and relationship conflict) at two different levels (individual-level and team-level) influence individual team commitment. The analysis was conducted using data we collected from 193 employees in 31 branch offices of a Korean commercial bank. The relationships at multiple levels were tested using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM...

Teams are formed to benefit from an expanded pool of expertise and experience, yet 2 aspects of the conflict stemming from those core differences will ultimately play a large role in determining team viability and productivity: conflict states and conflict processes. The current study theoretically reorganizes the literature on team conflict--distinguishing conflict states from conflict process...

The purpose of this study is to find out about conflict in negotiations. Organizational a difference opinion or contradiction between two more individuals groups work units an organization because they have share their limited resources activities, and the facts different goals, values, perceptions interests. Internal often seen as common event that also faced by organizational leaders. Handlin...