A contingency model of conflict and team effectiveness.

@article{Shaw2011ACM,
  title={A contingency model of conflict and team effectiveness.},
  author={Jason D. Shaw and Jing Zhu and Michelle Duffy and Kristin L. Scott and Hsi-An Shih and Ely Susanto},
  journal={The Journal of applied psychology},
  year={2011},
  volume={96 2},
  pages={
          391-400
        }
}
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 in the shape of an inverted U when relationship conflict is low, but the relationship is linear and… 
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