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Climate uniformity: its influence on team communication quality, task conflict, and team performance.

Vicente Gonzalez-romaAna Hernández

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AdultMalemedia_common.quotation_subjectApplied psychologyOrganizational cultureSample (statistics)Interpersonal communicationEfficiency OrganizationalTask (project management)Conflict PsychologicalPerceptionHumansQuality (business)Cooperative BehaviorApplied Psychologymedia_commonTeam compositionClimate patternPsicologia socialCommunicationCommerceMiddle AgedOrganizational CultureGroup ProcessesLeadershipFemalePsychologySocial psychology

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We investigated whether climate uniformity (the pattern of climate perceptions of organizational support within the team) is related to task conflict, team communication quality, and team performance. We used a sample composed of 141 bank branches and collected data at 3 time points. The results obtained showed that, after controlling for aggregate team climate, climate strength, and their interaction, a type of nonuniform climate pattern (weak dissimilarity) was directly related to task conflict and team communication quality. Teams with weak dissimilarity nonuniform patterns tended to show higher levels of task conflict and lower levels of team communication quality than teams with uniform climate patterns. The relationship between weak dissimilarity patterns and team performance was fully mediated by team communication quality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-01-01The Journal of applied psychology
10.1037/a0037868https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25198099