Impact of Learning Style Diversity on Team Performance with mediating effect of Team Learning Process and Team Conflict An Empirical Study in Indian IT Industry

Abstract

Teams are always considered as a building block for any organization. To increase the effectiveness, productivity and competitiveness of any organization, the development process of the team in the organization is all respect/phases. Most of the organizations are dependent upon the organizational team to perform critical strategic and operational task. The importance of team in organization has been highlighted by the Hawthorne studies (Shea and Guzzo, 1987). As it has been analyzed by management and organizational scholars that team plays an important role in organizational settings and is a crucial component of organizational performance, which lead to increased research in team studies for the last few decades. Managers and teams encounter many problems while they perform the various tasks. Harvard Business Review answer exchange, 2010 have concluded in their report that the team encountered many challenges while they perform various functions such as difficulty in making decisions, lack of creativity, lack of lateral thinking, team conflicts, lack of participation, absence of team identity and ineffective leadership. Creativity, lateral thinking, decision making, and participation these issues can be resolved by addressing the psychological attribute of the team members. In the current study the psychological diversity among the team members has been taken into consideration and its impact on team performance. newline