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The role of group personality composition in the emergence of task and relationship conflict within groups

MARC H ANDERSON

Assistant Professor, Department of Management, College of Business, lowa State University, Ames IA$,$ USA

ABSTRACT

Conflict is a ubiguisous feature of groups in organizations thas cleanly affects growp performance. While prior research hat investigated she role of personality on conflict resolution styles at the indi. vidual level, little work has examined she role of personality on the emergence of conflic. This mat be partially due to she fact that the emengence of conflict is inherently a group$-$level phenomenon, and thas requires she aggregation of personality to the group $($or at least dyadic$)$ level of analysis.