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Predicting future conflict between team-members with parameter-free models of social networks.


ABSTRACT: Despite the well-documented benefits of working in teams, teamwork also results in communication, coordination and management costs, and may lead to personal conflict between team members. In a context where teams play an increasingly important role, it is of major importance to understand conflict and to develop diagnostic tools to avert it. Here, we investigate empirically whether it is possible to quantitatively predict future conflict in small teams using parameter-free models of social network structure. We analyze data of conflict appearance and resolution between 86 team members in 16 small teams, all working in a real project for nine consecutive months. We find that group-based models of complex networks successfully anticipate conflict in small teams whereas micro-based models of structural balance, which have been traditionally used to model conflict, do not.

SUBMITTER: Rovira-Asenjo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3683702 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Predicting future conflict between team-members with parameter-free models of social networks.

Rovira-Asenjo Núria N   Gumí Tània T   Sales-Pardo Marta M   Guimerà Roger R  

Scientific reports 20130101


Despite the well-documented benefits of working in teams, teamwork also results in communication, coordination and management costs, and may lead to personal conflict between team members. In a context where teams play an increasingly important role, it is of major importance to understand conflict and to develop diagnostic tools to avert it. Here, we investigate empirically whether it is possible to quantitatively predict future conflict in small teams using parameter-free models of social netw  ...[more]

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