This paper provides the results of an empirical study on diversity and conflict within teams. In much of the previous literature, conflict is generally view as negative and something to be avoided or immediately resolved. Some studies, however, have examined the benefits of organizational...

Despite initial efforts to investigate conflict in organizations, the relationship between conflict and performance continues to be a contested topic in the literature. This paper investigates the effect of conflict on work group performance. For this purpose, a case study of an international...

The present work intends to contribute to the debate about the identification of the key dimensions (Ekvall, 1996; Amason, 1996; Justesen, 2001; De Dreu et al., 2003) of an effective creative process of the teams (Hackman, 1987). The study has been developed trough a qualitative analysis formed of three...