Bases de poder do supervisor, conflitos intragrupais e comprometimento organizacional e com a equipe: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

The interaction among the individual and his environment, his organization, his supervisor, his team and his colleagues that the employees will probably develop attitudes, cognitions e behaviors that will reflect the level of organization e team commitment expressed by the worker in his job. Its study presents as the principal objective test a prediction model considering the types of organization and team commitments as dependent variable and the types of supervisors power bases (coercion, reward, legitimate, and expert) and the types of intragroups conflict (task and relationship) as the independents variables. In order to investigate these relations, reliable scales were applied in 148 employees in organizations from Uberlândia and region. Descriptive analysis, correlations analysis and regressions analysis were done. The results indicates that the reward power bases and the relationship conflict explain 30% of the variance of affective team commitment, and the expert power bases and the relationship conflict explain 24% of the employee s affective organization commitment. These results were analyzed e compared with others empirics studies, and the conclusions corroborate findings in the Organization Behaviors. Further researches were proposed.