Conditioning team cognition: A meta-analysis
Autor: | Lindsay Elizabeth Larson, Noshir Contractor, Leslie A. DeChurch, Gabriel Plummer, Ashley A. Niler, Jessica Mesmer-Magnus |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Teamwork Social Psychology Team cognition media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Applied psychology Foundation (evidence) Cognition Meta-analysis 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 050203 business & management 050107 human factors Applied Psychology media_common |
Zdroj: | Organizational Psychology Review. 11:144-174 |
ISSN: | 2041-3874 2041-3866 |
DOI: | 10.1177/2041386620972112 |
Popis: | Abundant research supports a cognitive foundation to teamwork. Team cognition describes the mental states that enable team members to anticipate and to coordinate. Having been examined in hundreds of studies conducted in board rooms, cockpits, nuclear power plants, and locker rooms, to name a few, we turn to the question of moderators: Under which conditions is team cognition more and less strongly related to team performance? Random effects meta-analytic moderator analysis of 107 independent studies ( N = 7,778) reveals meaningful variation in effect sizes conditioned on team composition and boundary factors. The overall effect of team cognition on performance is ρ = .35, though examining this effect by these moderators finds the effect can meaningfully vary between ρ = .22 and ρ = .42. This meta-analysis advances team effectiveness theory by moving past the question of “what is important?” to explore the question of “when and why is it important?” Results indicate team cognition is most strongly related to performance for teams with social category heterogeneity ( ρ = .42), high external interdependence ( ρ = .41), as well as low authority differentiation ( ρ = .35), temporal dispersion ( ρ = .36), and geographic dispersion ( ρ = .35). Functional homogeneity and temporal stability (compositional factors) were not meaningful moderators of this relationship. The key takeaway of these findings is that team cognition matters most for team performance when—either by virtue of composition, leadership, structure, or technology—there are few substitute enabling conditions to otherwise promote performance. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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