Knowledge Sharing and Team Performance: Interpersonal Conflict and Task Conflict as Moderators

• Main Authors: Mei-Cing Huang, 黃梅青
• Other Authors: Ming-Huei Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32944441043286220376

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 105 === This thesis aims to explore the potential contributions of knowledge sharing in teamwork and present a model that can be used for predicting effective knowledge sharing behaviors in teams. Also, how interpersonal conflict and task conflict as moderators influence the effective in discussion further generate positive outcome of team performance are involved in this study. Drawn from the extant literature, a theoretical model linking knowledge sharing with team performance is postulated. Several relative variables include team efficacy and expressive ties. Besides, interpersonal conflict and task conflict moderate the relationship between expressive ties and team performance. Using a time-lagged research design, data are collected longitudinally from entrepreneurial student teams in six weeks and used to test the proposed model, using SPSS to perform statistical analysis. The findings confirm the applicability and predictive power of the proposed model. This thesis revealed that team members share their particular knowledge from the beginning of teamwork help to innovate the discussions and further build up confidence in team efficacy. In addition, the results show that interpersonal conflict, as a moderator, would positively affect team performance and elevate the final project performance. This study contributes to the findings that interpersonal conflict will positively influence teamwork due to the close relationship binding among students. This study has opened up a new discussion of interpersonal conflict in team of students will help conduct closer interaction and effective ideas which lead the team to better discussion and performance.