Mediating effect of team trust between team conflict and team effectiveness in self-management teams

Abstract

Team conflict is an amazing variable in team studies. But the effect of team conflict still remains debatable. Blessing or curse, it is not certain that team conflict is. It is reasonable that team type, team process and team context may influence the outcome of team conflict. In this study, 54 self-management teams were selected as participants, to explore the relationship between team conflict and team effectiveness. The result indicated that team conflict is medium negative correlated to team effectiveness and team trust is mediator between team conflict and team effectiveness. So, team conflict is harmful to team effectiveness in self-management team, but team trust may reduce the negative impact of team conflict. © 2013 Asian Network for Scientific Information.