Conflict and Creativity in Interdisciplinary Teams

We examine the effects of conflict and conflict asymmetry on creativity in interdisciplinary teams. Testing our hypotheses on teams working on graduate-level nanobiotechnology projects, we found task conflict to have a positive relationship with creativity whereas relationship conflict had a negativ...

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Published inSmall group research Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 266 - 289
Main Authors Yong, Kevyn, Sauer, Stephen J., Mannix, Elizabeth A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2014
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Asymmetry
Business administration
Conflict
Creativity
Cultural Pluralism
domain_shs.gestion.man-re
Group dynamics
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teams
creativity
conflict asymmetry
conflict
interdisciplinary teams
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Summary:We examine the effects of conflict and conflict asymmetry on creativity in interdisciplinary teams. Testing our hypotheses on teams working on graduate-level nanobiotechnology projects, we found task conflict to have a positive relationship with creativity whereas relationship conflict had a negative relationship with creativity. Our results also revealed that relationship conflict asymmetry had a positive effect on creativity. Examining the two components of creativity separately, we found that relationship conflict asymmetry explained variance in the novelty component, whereas task conflict, team size, and functional diversity explained variance in the usefulness component.
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ISSN:1046-4964
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DOI:10.1177/1046496414530789