Teamwork has advantages (e.g., coordination), but also presents challenges of interdependence (e.g., social loafing), which can make teamwork frustrating. Expressing frustration (a negative emotion) with another team member can motivate better performance, but can also backfire, triggering...

We collected a sample of 167 employees from the travel agency industry in Taiwan a few weeks after a tragic incident that involved the loss of twenty-two individuals from two travel groups due to large-scale landslides. We predicted, and found, that the more the respondents empathized with the...

Researchers long have assumed that negotiators give priority to economic outcomes over relational outcomes such as satisfaction with negotiation process and desire for future interactions with the counterpart. However the relational structure of a negotiation may be more or less attended to...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the difficulties conflicting students encountered during mediation process as identified by peer mediator students. The study utilized semi-structured interview technique. Interview forms were used as data collection instrument and 45 peer mediators (24...

Studies on conflict management in teams have generally relied on existing conflict management theories and frameworks conceptualized at the individual level. Much of this research also assumes convergence of individual conflict management approaches in teams. Such assumptions limit our...

This paper is the representation of an on-going project on a refugee group, called Meskhetian Turks. The larger project is an exploration of Meskhetian Turks‟ ethnic identity through in-depth interviews aiming to understand how Meskhetians perceive their own cultural identity, their connection...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that mindfulness, or open, non-judgmental awareness of the present moment, is important for negotiation performance. We find support for this prediction in four experiments using a variety of different mindfulness manipulations and both objective and subjective...

Individuals that usually work independently may find it challenging to form projects where team members are highly interdependent. The purpose of this paper is to explore conflict and cooperation processes when these individuals engage in joint operations. We made extensive interviews and...

We collected a five-round survey in Taiwan to investigate the relationships among conflict perceptions, negative moods, and turnover intention. We used a two-level hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to test our hypotheses and controlled for measures of the previous time interval. Our initial...