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Team Leader’s Conflict Management Style and Team Innovation Performance in Remote R&D Teams—With Team Climate Perspective

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  • Jielin Yin

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China)

  • Meng Qu

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China)

  • Miaomiao Li

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China)

  • Ganli Liao

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China)

Abstract

Remote work has become a new way of working due to the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which inevitably aggravates team conflicts caused by cognitive differences given the lack of face-to-face communication. With a team climate perspective, this paper investigates the impact of the team leader’s conflict management style on team innovation performance in remote R&D teams in China based on social cognition theory and two-dimension theory. A theoretical model is constructed which describes the mediating effect of team psychological safety and the moderating impact of team trust. Paired data from 118 remote R&D teams in China including 118 leaders and 446 members were collected. The results show that team leader’s cooperative conflict management style is conducive to enhancing team psychological safety and further effectively improves team innovation performance. Therefore, team psychological safety has a mediating effect between team leader’s cooperative conflict management style and team innovation performance. In addition, team trust has a negative moderating effect between team leader’s cooperative conflict management style and team psychological safety. Besides, this study obtains some valuable culture-related insights and provides more views for conflict management research in the cross-cultural context since the samples in this study are from China, a society with high collectivism, which is different from the western cultural context from which many conflict management theories develop.

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  • Jielin Yin & Meng Qu & Miaomiao Li & Ganli Liao, 2022. "Team Leader’s Conflict Management Style and Team Innovation Performance in Remote R&D Teams—With Team Climate Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-14, September.
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