How team-level and individual-level conflict influences team commitment: A multilevel investigation

Sanghyun Lee; Seungwoo Kwon; Shung J. Shin; Min Soo Kim; In Jo Park

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02365

How team-level and individual-level conflict influences team commitment: A multilevel investigation

Sanghyun Lee
, Seungwoo Kwon^*
, Shung J. Shin
, Min Soo Kim
, In Jo Park

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Psychology

Hanyang University
Korea University
Portland State University
Wuhan University of Science and Technology

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Abstract

We investigate how two different types of conflict (task conflict and relationship conflict) at two different levels (individual-level and team-level) influence individual team commitment. The analysis was conducted using data we collected from 193 employees in 31 branch offices of a Korean commercial bank. The relationships at multiple levels were tested using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). The results showed that individual-level relationship conflict was negatively related to team commitment while individual-level task conflict was not. In addition, both team-level task and relationship conflict were negatively associated with team commitment. Finally, only team-level relationship conflict significantly moderated the relationship between individual-level relationship conflict and team commitment. We further derive theoretical implications of these findings.

Original language	English
Article number	2365
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	8
Issue number	JAN
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02365
State	Published - 2018.01.17

Keywords

Individual-level conflict
Multilevel analysis
Relationship conflict
Task conflict
Team commitment
Team-level conflict

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