As expected, the similarity of team-TMMs reduces the level of conflict which in turn
improves effectiveness. This occurs because members share a common understanding
about how work together from the beginning of team lifecycle, which helps them to
avoid or manage the disagreements based on personal issues (Thompson, 2001), and to
achieve high levels of effectiveness. We also expected that when members have a
shared understanding about work objectives and task duties (i.e. when share
task-TMMs) they will be more able to avoid personal disagreements (De Dreu and
Weingart, 2003; Thompson, 2001). Nevertheless, the similarity of task-TMMs was not
able to reduce relationship conflict. The low average similarity we found in task-TMMs
could explain why there was no significant relationship between task-TMMs and
conflict. Probably task-TMMs did not have strength to diminish conflict.