Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Organizational Innovation (ICOI 2017)

Team conflict management and R&D team effectiveness: The effects of Task Interdependence and Team Cooperation

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Yen Hsu
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Yen Hsu
Available Online July 2017.
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10.2991/icoi-17.2017.49How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Task interdependence, design team, team cooperation, team effectiveness, conflict
Abstract

Companies are dedicated to improving research and development (R&D) capacity to excel in market competition. Designers that share the same values and communicate and interact effectively are more likely to assist and cooperate with each other, making loyal contributions to the companies. This study explores the influence of task interdependence on engineering designers and examines cooperative conflict as a phenomenon. By conducting a questionnaire survey with 1000 consumer electronics manufacturers in Taiwan, we collected information regarding 339 design teams. Subsequently, we divided the teams based on various types of task interdependence before analyzing 28 cases of product development performed by these teams and investigating the cooperation and conflict between the team members. The results showed four types of task interdependence, namely, "Concretes", "efficiency", "concordance", and "specialization". Design teams featuring different types of task interdependence exhibit differing combinations in terms of the forms of team cooperation, team conflict, loyalty, and work values. Previous research has rarely addressed the conflict and cooperation of engineering designers within teams, and this study fills the research gap while offering specific recommendations for management practices.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Organizational Innovation (ICOI 2017)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
July 2017
ISBN
10.2991/icoi-17.2017.49
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icoi-17.2017.49How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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