TY  - JOUR
AB  - Generally, this study contributes to our understanding of the situations when conflict facilitates performance versus when it hampers performance. More specifically, the study distinguishes between conflict potential, conflict stimulus, and actual conflict. We present two hypotheses that compare two competing views to further disentangle whether and when conflict is functional. Our empirical tests, using a sample of Mennonite congregations, lead us to speculate that conflict may be functional for individual‐centered performance measures, but dysfunctional for group‐based performance measures.
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
SN  - 1044-4068
DO  - 10.1108/eb022785
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb022785
AU  - Dyck Bruno
AU  - Bruning Nealia S.
AU  - Driedger Leo
PY  - 1996
Y1  - 1996/01/01
TI  - POTENTIAL CONFLICT, CONFLICT STIMULUS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL TEST
T2  - International Journal of Conflict Management
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 295
EP  - 313
Y2  - 2024/05/11
ER  -