The virtue and vice of workplace conflict: food for (pessimistic) thought

By Carsten K. W. De Dreu. 2008

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Team Microdynamics: Toward an Organizing Approach to Teamwork (2014, background): “More specifically, they found that asymmetry on task conflict inhibited a team’s creativity (a particularly problematic outcome, considering that creativity is purportedly the main benefit of task conflict; De Dreu, 2008), as well as team member satisfaction and performance.”
The Effects of Group Conflict and Work Stress on Employee Performance (2013, background): “Other forms of conflict would have negative ramifications (De Dreu 2008; Simons and Peterson 2000; Tjosvold 2007), such as when conflict interferes with team effectiveness and satisfaction (Simons and Peterson 2000; Wall and Callister 1995).”
Does gender diversity help teams constructively manage status conflict? An evolutionary perspective of status conflict, team psychological safety, and team creativity (2018, background): “In search of the determinants of team creativity, the growing body of extant literature focuses on intragroup conflict, including task and relationship conflict, and their implications on team creativity (De Dreu, 2006, 2008; Farh, Lee, & Farh, 2010).”
Managing for Innovation: The Two Faces of Tension in Creative Climates (2010, neutral): “The distinction made between idea tension in the Debate dimension and personal tension within the Conflict dimension may provide an additional conceptual lens within the scientific argument for and against conflict (De Dreu, 2008; Tjosvold, 2008).”
The Dark Side of Structural Holes (2013, background): “Discordant and opposite views among team members are the core reason behind the development of conflict in a group (Amason, 1996; De Dreu, 2008; Jehn, 1995).”
Optimizing team conflict dynamics for high performance teamwork (2017, background): “Surprisingly, team innovation was not related to any type of conflict, despite opposite arguments presented in the literature (e.g., De Dreu, 2008).”
Examining Job Crafting from an Interpersonal Perspective: Is Employee Job Crafting Related to the Well‐Being of Colleagues? (2015, background): “Together, these studies signal that a high workload and unpleasant interpersonal interactions, such as verbal aggression or angry exchanges, raises the individual’s stress levels and may lead to burnout (De Dreu, 2008; Penny & Spector, 2005).”
Shaping Environments Conductive to Creativity (2012, background): “…conflict, scholars have predicted that conflict that involves disagreements about the work task are advantageous for creative performance (De Dreu 2008; Shalley and Gilson 2004; West 2002), but relational conflict hurts work outcomes (including creativity) because it causes negative…”
Constructively managing conflicts in organizations (2014, background): “The more that protagonists understand that they have a long-term relationship, the more they can be expected to resolve the conflict in such a way that the others believe they have gained from working together (De Dreu 2006, 2008).”
Examining the “Pros” and “Cons” of Team Conflict: A Team-Level Meta-Analysis of Task, Relationship, and Process Conflict (2013, background): “In addition to its obvious importance, including team innovation as a criterion in the current meta-analysis answers a call from De Dreu (2008) for simultaneous examination of conflict’s effects on multiple team criteria.”
Team-level predictors of innovation at work: a comprehensive meta-analysis spanning three decades of research. (2009, background): “In a critical review of the conflict literature, De Dreu (2008) contended that conflict might serve positive functions only under very specific circumstances.”