Hypothesis 3. Intragroup trust will moderate the rela- tionship between task conflict and later relationship conflict such that task and relationship conflict will be significantly less related when trust is high.
The current study
The purpose of this research is generally to add to our understanding of how performance feedback, trust, and conflict are related. More specifically, we look at how performance feedback affects future intragroup conflict and group performance. Our research specifically tests three possible psychological mechanisms that underlie the dynamic relationship between performance feedback and later group process (i.e., task and relationship conflict). This study employs time-lagged data to test the hypotheses that, (a) negative initial performance feed- back causes future relationship conflict (Hypothesis 1a); (b) initial relationship conflict and group performance will not be related (Hypothesis 1b); (c) negative initial performance feedback causes future task conflict (Hy- pothesis 2); and (d) intragroup trust established before negative feedback minimizes the chances of increased task conflict transforming into later reported relation- ship conflict (Hypothesis 3).