The Moderating Role of Cognitive Style Congruence in the Relationship between Task Conflict and Team Performance

This paper will explore what influences team members to complete the tasks and make decision with their members if conflict between tasks happened. R&D team works improve technology. As team members due to each team's responsibility, they would still approach their team performance on time. Generally, team members have many traits in similar, such as intelligences, absorbency, and willingness of cooperation. The similarity-attraction theory suggests that congruence between the cognitive styles of team members may have impacts on the relationship between task conflict and team performance. We investigate the data from 38 work teams in which participants were team members and the leaders working in organizations which the nature of task of teams involved R&D, project, and management. The analysis will use the SPSS statistical software package and show descriptive statistics, reliability as a measure of consistency. Predicting findings will indicate that task conflict may be related to team performance. However, this paper will explain whether the congruence of cognitive style had seen an enormous moderated effect between them. It is very important for technology based organization and team. The implications of practices and management may show about what should be considered when there are some obstructions existed in team work.