Intragroup conflict is an inevitable reality in organizational life. It holds the potential for change. Task conflict
is associated with disagreement among group members and relationship conflict is linked with interpersonal
incompatibilities. Management makes lucid decisions because they know that intragroup conflict is very
important and it has significant impact on employee's performance. They defuse or eradicate its impact but
never avoid. This dissertation fills a gap in the conflict literature concerning intragroup conflict and its impact
on employee's performance. Moreover, it also clarifies the impact of task conflict and relationship conflict on
employee's performance.
The purpose of this study is to test a model of intragroup conflict among employees and its impact on
employee's performance. The sample of 142 individuals, working in 27 different teams, belonging to
commercial banks of Rawalpindi/Islamabad was selected. Questionnaires comprising four parts were sent
directly to target the segment. In the first part, the first 12 questions were about personal/general information;
second part consisted of 4 questions relating to task conflict; third part consisted of 5 questions of Cox's
organizational conflict scale concerning to relationship conflict; and the last part consisted of 17 questions on
employee's performance. Task and relationship conflict showed that the model is significant at .05 confidence
level (p>0.05). We compared both variables on individual basis, which revealed that the variable difference is
significant at p<0.05. The regression coefficient for relationship conflict was 0.408, which suggests that
employees' performance was sensitive to changes in the relationship conflict. The other variable, i.e. task
conflict is insignificant to employees performance at .05 confidence level as it is p>.05 level. The regression
coefficient of task conflict was negative but without any significance.
In this model, only significant variable that account variation in employee's performance is relationship
conflict. It's possible that the employees within the organization try to keep the conflict concealed because of
management/ organization reputation or flaming effect. This study would help executives as well as
management tier to understand how to take advantage from this research study and to develop measures to
solve 'intragroup conflict.