Intra-group Conflict in Sporting Teams

Intra-group Conflict in Sporting Teams

Introduction

Disagreement is one of the main challenges experienced by sporting teams to work successfully. Researches on relation among intra-group conflict and team efficiency demonstrated conflicting effects rationally, which activated debate on working of intra-group disagreement on team efficiency. Previous researches have exposed that team features (temper, variety, team customs and cultural worth), group procedure (conflict administration) and task features moderates the effect of clash on the team efficiency (Tidd, 2002). This research proposal will address the effects of intra-group conflict and how to handle intra-group conflicts in sporting teams.

Discussion

Research Questions

Members encountering greater Intra-group disagreement will have more psychological stress than other members?

Members encountering greater Intra-group disagreement will be less involved in their task than other members?

What are the effects of effects of intra-group conflict?

How to manage Intra-group conflict in the groups?

Intra-group Conflict

Generally, disagreement within a team is described as an aggressive situation of disagreement, difference or inaptness among two or more members in a team (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 2006-2007). In a longitudinal research, it has been discovered that high team performance was linked with a specific model of disagreement. Groups performing well were typified by low but rising stages of process disagreement, low stages of relation argument, with a rise near task targets, and reasonable stages of project conflict at the middle of group dealings. The associates of teams with this perfect conflict outline had related pre-established value schemes, high stages of expectation and admiration, and open debate customs around disagreement in the middle phases of their dealings. Intra-group clash is distinct in that it takes place among participants of a team who are supposedly united over a general feature or purpose; on the contrary, intergroup disagreement happens among two challenging or different teams. Intra-group conflicts are most general in offices ...