When and why creativity-related conflict with coworkers can hamper creative employees' individual job performance

Janssen, O. and Giebels, E. (2012) When and why creativity-related conflict with coworkers can hamper creative employees' individual job performance. European journal of work and organizational psychology . ISSN 1359-432X

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Abstract:	We examined when and why focal employees' creativity-related conflict with coworkers is related to their individual job performance. As hypothesized, a survey among 113 employees in 14 manufacturing work groups showed that creativity-related conflict with coworkers escalates into dysfunctional relationship conflict when focal employees have low rather than high trust in those coworkers. In its turn, relationship conflict with coworkers was found to be negatively associated with focal employees' individual job performance when they lack support from their supervisor. Finally, the indirect effect of creativity-related conflict on job performance through relationship conflict was found to be significant when both the first stage moderator of coworker trust and the second stage moderator of supervisory support were low rather than high
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© Taylor & Francis
Faculty:	Behavioural Sciences (BS)
Research Group:	Psychology of Conflict, Risk & Safety (PCRS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/80805
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2012.669524
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