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Anneke Zwart
Student (University), Netherlands
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In past research it was often argued that group decision making (GDM) improves if task-conflicts are present.
Task-conflicts are different opinions about the content and outcomes of the task being
performed.
Why this positive effect? Because task-conflicts prevent premature consensus and encourage critical thinking. It seems obvious. But other studies found no such relationship or even a negative one. The relationship between tasks conflicts and good GDM is thus ambiguous.
De Wit, Jehn and Scheepers have recently discovered that another factor is playing an important role when we're analyzing the extent to which task-conflicts are beneficial for GDM: the presence (or absence) of a relationship conflict.
According to the authors, task conflicts are more likely to have a positive effect on GDM if relationship conflicts are absent in the company.
They suggest 2 possibilities in which a relationship conflict negatively affects the relationship between task conflict and GDM:
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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srinivas
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Ben Smith
Manager, United Kingdom
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Leena Bissoonauth
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Purna Chandra
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Victor Manuel Monteiro Seco
Entrepreneur, Portugal
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Willie Odemwingie
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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Ken Sylvester
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srinivas
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NVDS.RAJU
Professor, India
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Tan Poh Lip
Manager, Malaysia
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Ruwan Bandara
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23 Aspects of the Human System
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srinivas
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ASPECTS IN HUMAN SYSTEM
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Consultant, Canada
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melchiorre calabrese
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srinivas
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melchiorre calabrese
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Preconceived Notions in Group Decision Making
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