In this chapter, we attempt to better understand the mechanisms underlying the effects of process conflict on team performance by exploring the role of negative affect in explaining the negative effects of process conflict on performance. Our findings show that negative affect does fully mediate...

Power is an inherent characteristic of social and organizational life, yet little is known about how power differences shape conflict resolution in organizational teams. In this paper, we investigate the effect of team power structures (including the power distance between members in a team as...