Publication

2006 - Division of Research, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

8,750 words, Guess

Page Count

35 pages

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Description

Conventional wisdom - together with the weight of published management advice - recommends that managers engage task conflict but avoid relationship conflict to have productive discussions. Implicit in this advice is the premise that it is indeed possible to separate them. This article argues, in contrast, that it is neither possible nor desirable to avoid relationship conflict, due to well-documented properties of human cognition.

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Series Statement

  • Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 06-030

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