ABSTRACT
Political conflicts have developmental consequences for the organized groups between or within which they occur. To recognize which kinds of conflict tend to promote integration would presumably enable organization leaders to manage conflicts and the development of their organization, for example, a political party, more deliberately and positively. More specifically and technically, a task-expectation is a description or explicit conception of a human activity by one or more organizational members, assumed to contribute to implementing an organizational goal and regularly associated with a named position or office in the organization. The three conflict processes—formalization, socialization, and investiture—may produce not only changes in the structure of an organization, but may also have consequences for the integration of the organization. The chairmanship and national headquarters were well on their way toward bureaucratization by 1960. Technically, all national committee chairmen have been elected to or confirmed in that office by the full membership of the national committee.
