..., the current study aims to delve into how team voice frequency and team voice centralization interact to influence team decision-making effectiveness and subsequent team performance. Design/methodology/approach A two-wave field study involving 72 sales teams (i.e. 72 supervisors matched with 288...

... members—i.e. team LMX quality and team LMX differentiation—affect the link between age diversity and team performance. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses are tested via ordinary least squares regression and data for 64 work teams at a major hospital, which were provided by 526 team members...

...Wei Chen; Jun-Hui Zhang; Yi-Lin Zhang Purpose The purpose of this study is to reveal a sequential mediating process of the impact of shared leadership on team performance by studying the sequential mediating effect of team trust and team learning behavior. Design/methodology/approach...

...Thorsten Semrau; Norbert Steigenberger; Hendrik Wilhelm Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between team political skill, i.e., the mean level of political skill among team members, and team performance. Specifically, it proposes that the link between team political skill...

... that complaining behaviors are negatively related to two effectiveness outcomes (i.e. team performance and team process improvement) and that meaningfulness mediates these relationships. The results also reveal that task interdependence moderates the relationship between complaining behaviors and meaningfulness...

...Josette M. P. Gevers; Boudewijn A. Driedonks; Mariann Jelinek; Arjan J. van Weele Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how perceptions of team performance and teamwork processes relate to functional diversity appropriateness perceptions (FDAP), that is, whether one believes...

...Martina Buljac-Samardzic; Marianne van Woerkom Purpose – The relationship between managerial coaching and team performance may be mediated by team reflection because coaching is often thought to lead to reflection, which has been found to lead to improved performance. In contrast...

...Julia E. Hoch Purpose – Shared leadership is increasingly important in today's organizations. The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between shared leadership and team performance, the moderating role of demographic diversity and the mediating role of information sharing...

... in working in VTs. Originality/value Through this study, a complex process model for VTs was developed and trust climate established as a prominent context factor for VT success. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Virtual team Trust Team performance Team cohesion Team goal setting...

... Adaptivity Proactivity Collectivism Self development Team performance Teamworking Over the past two decades, self‐leadership has been advocated as an effective means to positively influence employee performance (Manz, 1986 ; Neck and Houghton, 2006). Self‐leadership refers to a process of self...

... partners' affective and task‐related support on team performance. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical model is proposed that specifies the psychological mechanisms by which affective and task‐related support from fellow team members evoke process gains in teams compared with individual work...

... based on the individual team members' capabilities alone. Moreover, the estimation of a team's potential provides a helpful standard for the assessment of the ongoing team performance. Originality/value Process gains in teams and related laboratory research have been largely neglected...

...Guido Hertel; Judith Volmer; Sabine Sonnentag Purpose This study seeks to extend previous research on experts with mainly ad‐hoc groups from laboratory research to a field setting. Specifically, this study aims to investigate experts' relative importance in team performance. Expertise...

... decision‐making effectiveness on team performance and affective responses. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 183 individuals, working in 47 different teams, participated in this study. All the teams were involved in a national management challenge for a five‐week period. Three questionnaires were...

...; and how the type of task that the team is carrying out influences virtual team performance (Straus and McGrath, 1994 ; Hollingshead and McGrath, 1995). Furthermore, it has been noted that the effects of communication technologies on teams may be largely a consequence of the manner in which the task...

... on their group potency. Thus, where the demand for change brings uncertainty and risk, it is likely that the more self‐confident teams will more readily accept this with a positive impact on group processes (climate, and especially the climate of innovation). Transformational leadership Team performance...

... and psychological perspectives, this study examines the influence of team gender composition and gender‐orientation of the task on members' perceptions of their team's performance. The participants for this study included 216 university students (108 men, 108 women) who were randomly assigned to one of three types...