团队权力分布差异对团队冲突的影响:程序公平和合法性的作用
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  • 英文篇名:Power disparity and team conflict: The roles of procedural Justice and legitimacy
  • 作者:朱玥 ; 谢江佩 ; 金杨华 ; 施俊琦
  • 英文作者:ZHU Yue;XIE Jiangpei;JIN Yanghua;SHI Junqi;School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University;Lingnan (University) College, Sun Yat-sen University;
  • 关键词:团队权力分布差异 ; 团队冲突 ; 程序公平 ; 团队合法性感知
  • 英文关键词:power disparity;;team conflict;;procedural justice;;legitimacy
  • 中文刊名:XLXB
  • 英文刊名:Acta Psychologica Sinica
  • 机构:浙江工商大学工商管理学院;中山大学岭南(大学)学院;
  • 出版日期:2019-05-22 11:24
  • 出版单位:心理学报
  • 年:2019
  • 期:v.51
  • 基金:国家自然科学基金青年项目(71502164)资助
  • 语种:中文;
  • 页:XLXB201907008
  • 页数:12
  • CN:07
  • ISSN:11-1911/B
  • 分类号:87-98
摘要
近年来团队权力分布差异与团队冲突间关系受到了学界较大关注,但相关研究结果仍存在分歧。通过对70个工作团队的调查,探讨了团队权力分布差异对团队冲突(任务冲突、关系冲突)作用的边界条件。结果发现,程序公平调节了两者间关系:当程序公平较高时,团队权力分布差异与任务冲突、关系冲突负相关;当程序公平较低时,团队权力分布差异与任务冲突、关系冲突正相关。此外,被中介的调节模型分析显示,团队合法性感知中介了程序公平的上述调节作用。
        Power disparity refers to the differences in the concentration of power among team members. Although the pervasiveness and importance of power disparity have been well recognized, whether power disparity is functional or dysfunctional remains uncertain. Some researchers have suggested that power disparity can improve team performance by facilitating coordination, while others have found that power disparity, which may be perceived as unequal and unfair, can trigger team conflict. In this context, our study aims to reconcile these contrasting perspectives by proposing that procedural justice and team legitimacy are moderators in the relationship between power disparity and team conflict(task conflict and relationship conflict). We propose that when there is a high level of procedural justice, which helps legitimize a team's power disparity, members are likely to accept their team's distribution of power and coordinate with each another. However, when there is a low level of procedural justice, which can create the perception that a team's power disparity is illegitimate,members are likely to view their team's distribution of power as unequal and unfair. In this case, low-ranking members may show their opposition by competing over power, producing team conflict.Data were collected from two manufacturing companies in Zhejiang Province. To reduce the potential influence of common method bias, we used a two-wave design with a one-month interval. At Time 1, 450 employees in 90 teams responded to questions about power disparity, procedural justice, team legitimacy, and control variables. At Time 2, 376 employees in the 81 teams that had completed the Time 1 survey responded to questions about task conflict and relationship conflict. The final sample contained 322 employees in 70 teams.We measured individuals' responses regarding their teams' power disparity with a round-robin approach(i.e.,asking individuals to rate the power of each team member) and calculated the coefficient of variation in those responses. For the purpose of analysis, we aggregated the measures of task conflict, relationship conflict,procedural justice, and team legitimacy to the group level.The results showed that both procedural justice and team legitimacy moderated the relationship between power disparity and team conflict(task conflict and relationship conflict). When procedural justice was high,power disparity was negatively related to task conflict and relationship conflict, while these relationships became positive when procedural justice was low. In a similar vein, when team legitimacy was high, power disparity was negatively related to task conflict and relationship conflict, but when team legitimacy was low, it was positively related to both kinds of conflict. Moreover, procedural justice was shown to be positively related to team legitimacy. Finally, following the procedures suggested by Grant and Berry(2011), we conducted a mediated moderation analysis to test the integrative model. The results showed that team legitimacy mediated the moderation effect of procedural justice on the relationship between power disparity and team conflict(task conflict and relationship conflict).Our findings contribute to the literature in two ways. First, the study extends our understanding of the relationship between power disparity and team conflict by testing procedural justice and team legitimacy as moderators. Second, our findings reveal that power disparity can either decrease or increase team conflict when procedural justice(team legitimacy) is high and low, respectively. Our study thereby provides a new approach to the effects of power disparity that integrates the functional and dysfunctional perspectives.
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