Title: Intrateam Conflict and Team Member Perceptions of Team Support and Psychological Contract Breach
Abstract: Our knowledge about team members’ perceptions of team support and team psychological contract breach is relatively limited. We seek to add to this limited body of knowledge by theorizing that aggregate levels of intrateam task and relationship conflict are interpreted by team members as how much their teams value the contributions and well-being of team members, like themselves, as well as how much their teams have broken promises to team members, like themselves. We also theorize that team members’ perceptions of team support and team psychological contract breach moderate the relationships between intrateam task and relationship conflict and the opposite team perception. We test our hypotheses in a sample of 306 team members across 76 teams and 18 organizations. We find that intrateam task and relationship conflict are negatively associated with team members’ perceptions of team support, and positively associated with team members’ perceptions of team psychological contract breach. We do not find that team members’ perceptions of team psychological contract breach moderate the respective relationships between intrateam task and relationship conflict and team members’ perceptions of team support. However, we do find that team members’ perceptions of team support weaken the positive relationship between intrateam relationship conflict and team members’ perceptions of team psychological contract breach. We discuss the theoretical and managerial implications of these findings.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-09
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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