Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Small Group Research
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Jarboe, S. C.
Right arrow Articles by Witteman, H. R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Intragroup Conflict Management in Task-Oriented Groups

The Influence of Problem Sources and Problem Analyses

Susan C. Jarboe

The Pennsylvania State University

Hal R. Witteman

State College, Pennsylvania

This study examined the associations among integrative, distributive, and avoidance conflict styles and two methods of characterizing members'perceptions of intragroup problens. The "problem source" approach was based on three common sources of conflict: task, participative, and social issues. The "problem analysis" approach was derivedfrom research in social cognition and included perceptions of problem frequency, goal mutuality, goal-path uncertainty, causal attribution to the group, causal attribution to one member; and negative feelings for the group. Overall, problem analyses provided a more powerful account (of conflict styles than did problem sources. The discussion addresses the specific role of' attributions, negative feelings, goal mutuality, and goal-path uncertainty as they relate to conflict management styles.

Small Group Research, Vol. 27, No. 2, 316-338 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/1046496496272007
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Small Group ResearchHome page
S. M. Farmer and J. Roth
Conflict-Handling Behavior in Work Groups: Effects of Group Structure, Decision Processes, and Time
Small Group Research, December 1, 1998; 29(6): 669 - 713.
[Abstract]