INTRODUCING TEAM MINDFULNESS AND CONSIDERING ITS SAFEGUARD ROLE AGAINST CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION AND SOCIAL UNDERMINING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yu, Lingtao; Zellmer-Bruhn, Mary
• 署名单位: University of British Columbia; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.0094
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 324-347
• 关键词: INTRAGROUP CONFLICT; decision-making; TASK CONFLICT; MODERATING ROLES; HIGH-RELIABILITY; bad apples; work; performance; ORGANIZATIONS; mind

摘要

The authors introduce the concept of team mindfulness, defined as a shared belief among team members that their interactions are characterized by awareness and attention to present events, and experiential, nonjudgmental processing of within-team experiences. Team mindfulness is examined as a safeguard against multilevel team conflict transformation processes. Results from three multi-wave field studies validate a team mindfulness instrument and indicate that team mindfulness (1) negatively relates to team relationship conflict, (2) reduces the connection between task conflict and relationship conflict at the team level, (3) and reduces the cross-level spillover of team relationship conflict to individual social undermining The research contributes to the growing workplace mindfulness literature by conceptualizing mindfulness at the team level and demonstrating its positive effects for team functioning. Results also contribute to research on team conflict and social undermining, showing that team mindfulness is a promising intervention to reduce team conflict and its ill effects.