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Research on Evolution Model of Employees’ Relationship and Task Conflict in Enterprise Clusters: A Complex Network Perspective

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In the transition economy, there is no perfect person, but perfect team. Top management team’s effect on strategic decision has become more and more explicitly. Undeniable, conflict is inevitable in the process of existence and development of companies. Based on the idea of complex network, this paper makes an attempt on exploring relationship and task conflict model of employees in enterprises to analyze how two kinds of the conflict affect the employees. Mathematical analysis and simulation results all show that the scale of the model has much to do with exit threshold and conflict coefficient. According to the above analysis, the article puts forward several countermeasures to ease conflict of enterprise cluster. How to properly handle the relationship conflict among the staff, encouraging and improving the task conflict level of employees, keeping the harmonious interpersonal relationship of employees, it can not only improve employee performance and job satisfaction, at the same time, but also is conducive to the long-term development of enterprises.

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Fund (71572071), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (2015M571708), the Research and Practice Project of Teaching Reform of Graduate Education in Jiangsu Province (JGZZ1_056), the Advanced Talent Project of Jiangsu University (09JDG050 and 14JDG202) and the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX17-1742).

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    MengYun Wu, Linrong Zhang & Muhammad Imran

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Wu, M., Zhang, L. & Imran, M. Research on Evolution Model of Employees’ Relationship and Task Conflict in Enterprise Clusters: A Complex Network Perspective. Wireless Pers Commun 102, 3489–3501 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-018-5386-1

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