Relationship Conflicts Modeling and Measuring Within Work Teams

Nowadays many corporates make use of teams to complete tasks that individuals could not tackle alone. To effectively fulfill tasks, team members with different backgrounds work cooperatively and communicate constantly. In the process, relationship conflicts within the team inevitably occur due to clashes in personality and or values, which are empirically proved to be negative for completion of tasks. The paper focuses on the relationship conflicts resulted from exchanging and sharing knowledge between team members when completing the given tasks and accordingly develops a method to model and measure such conflicts. Based on the developed method, several simulations for the interaction of team members have been conducted to aim revealing the micro-mechanism of generation of relationship conflicts. Experimental results show that relationship conflicts can be generated and evolved with knowledge transfer between team members. Furthermore, impact factors on relationship conflicts as well as team creativity are deeply analyzed from the personality point of view.