Antecedents of perceived dyadic conflict: a multilevel perspective
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description: Past conflict research on teams provides a wealth of conceptual and empirical insight into various aspects of conflict (e.g., when and how different types of conflict affect individual, team, and organizational outcomes). Nevertheless, conflict research thus far has been limited in two key respects. First, we know little about what drives conflict. There has been relatively little empirical research that investigates antecedents of conflict though they have been acknowledged as important. Second, conflict in organizations at the dyad-level has also received insufficient academic attention until recently. In organizational behavior research, conflict is usually conceptualized as a collective experience shared by all team members, and measured accordingly, allowing individual responses to be aggregated to a team level. However, in many cases conflict occurs between two people, and these interpersonal relationships are often not captured in the traditional psychometric approach. To address these limitations, this dissertation focuses on perceived dyadic conflict—individuals’ specific conflict experiences within a team. It also proposes a multi-level model of antecedents of dyadic conflict. Specifically, I argue that understanding perceived dyadic conflict is fundamental to understanding intragroup conflict, based on the observation that all group conflict can be broken down into dyadic interactions among fellow team members. I also argue that dyadic conflict is a function of individual, dyad, and team factors. I developed a study framework for understanding perceived dyadic conflict that considers individuals’ personalities, the extent to which they communicate about work matters and socialize with other team members, and their teams’ levels of psychological safety. The data for this dissertation were collected at a multidisciplinary state research institution located in the Midwest as part of a larger project. These data provide a unique opportunity to examine perceiv…
abstract: Past conflict research on teams provides a wealth of conceptual and empirical insight into various aspects of conflict (e.g., when and how different types of conflict affect individual, team, and organizational outcomes). Nevertheless, conflict research thus far has been limited in two key respects. First, we know little about what drives conflict. There has been relatively little empirical research that investigates antecedents of conflict though they have been acknowledged as important. Second, conflict in organizations at the dyad-level has also received insufficient academic attention until recently. In organizational behavior research, conflict is usually conceptualized as a collective experience shared by all team members, and measured accordingly, allowing individual responses to be aggregated to a team level. However, in many cases conflict occurs between two people, and these interpersonal relationships are often not captured in the traditional psychometric approach. To address these limitations, this dissertation focuses on perceived dyadic conflict—individuals’ specific conflict experiences within a team. It also proposes a multi-level model of antecedents of dyadic conflict. Specifically, I argue that understanding perceived dyadic conflict is fundamental to understanding intragroup conflict, based on the observation that all group conflict can be broken down into dyadic interactions among fellow team members. I also argue that dyadic conflict is a function of individual, dyad, and team factors. I developed a study framework for understanding perceived dyadic conflict that considers individuals’ personalities, the extent to which they communicate about work matters and socialize with other team members, and their teams’ levels of psychological safety. The data for this dissertation were collected at a multidisciplinary state research institution located in the Midwest as part of a larger project. These data provide a unique opportunity to examine perceiv…
author: Chung, Wonjoon
language: en
keywords: Dyadic conflict, Antecedents, Multilevel
date published: 2017-09-29T16:39:12Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:24:35Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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