...Christopher B. Neck; Christopher P. Neck; Michael G. Goldsby; Elizabeth A. Goldsby Purpose Despite turning a recent eye toward work teams, motivation research has largely treated the group as a contextual influence affecting an individual’s motivation, leaving explanations of motivational forces...

...Rebecca S. Lau; Gordon W. Cheung; Helena D. Cooper–Thomas Purpose This study aims to examine two individual dispositions, propensity to trust and reciprocation wariness, as antecedents of team–member exchange (TMX) and how shared leadership moderates these relationships. It also investigates work...

...Manuel London Purpose Drawing on existing theory, a model is developed to illustrate how the interaction between leaders and followers similarity in narcissism and goal congruence may influence subgroup formation in teams, and how this interaction influences team identification and team...

...Rebecca J. Jones; Uwe Napiersky; Joanne Lyubovnikova Purpose Team coaching (TC) is a popular new addition to the team learning and development toolkit. However, the conceptualization of TC and the distinction between TC, team training, team development and team building interventions remains...

...Samantha Dubrow; Kyle J. Emich; Tara S. Behrend Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand the nomological network of a relational efficacy construct, transpersonal efficacy, and examine its effect on attitudes and behaviors important for team performance. The authors identify several...

...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...

...Rhetta L. Standifer; Anneloes M.L. Raes; Claudia Peus; Ana Margarida Passos; Catarina Marques Santos; Silke Weisweiler Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide more insight into team temporal constructs and team satisfaction, this study proposes and tests a multiple mediation model...

...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...

...Guido Hertel, Béatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden, Annet H. de Lange, Jürgen Deller; Eva Maria Schulte; Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock; Simone Kauffeld Purpose – This paper aims to examine the effects of age on counteractive team meeting behaviors (e.g. complaining). Forgiveness is included as a potential...

...Stephen Swailes; Tim McIntyre‐Bhatty Previous research into the reliability of the “Belbin” team role self‐perception inventory has concluded that internal consistency reliability is poor, raising concerns about the validity of the inventory as a selection and development tool. This paper argues...

...W.D.K. Macrosson; D.J. Hemphill In the description of his team model, Belbin describes certain “allowable” weaknesses in the roles, the true‐life experience of teamworking, however, sometimes reveals behaviour among colleagues which is far from “allowable”. The Belbin model is silent...

... and the Leadership Behaviour Questionnaire XII. As hypothesised, employee job satisfaction correlated with supervisor leadership behaviour, with the exception of consideration leadership and co‐worker satisfaction. A new explanation, concerning level of team interaction, is proposed for the findings. Implications...

...Maggie McCourt-Mooney © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> ACAS Careers Psychology Teams Internet news Keywords ACAS, Careers, Psychology, Teams. The availability of resources on the Internet is a subject in its own right and in this issue a few sites offering specific...

...Stephen G. Fisher; W.D. Keith Macrosson; John Wong Team role preference, as formulated by Meredith Belbin, and cognitive style are both rooted in personality. As a consequence, it should be possible to successfully hypothesise certain relationships between team role preferences and cognitive style...

... in an international research team. Learning Projects Research Teams Teamwork To sit around a table is to carry on a conflict and also to conclude it by other means (Moscovici and Doise, 1994). Herodotus tells us that Darius, King of Persia, summoned the Greeks and asked them how they customarily...

...Stephen W. Nason; Madan M. Pillutla Many, if not most, academic researchers interested in international business have worked on teams made up of individuals from many different countries. Ironically, there has been little research attempting to explain the unique dynamic of such teams...

...Mark C. Butler Interest in methods, processes and problems associated with conducting interdisciplinary, cross‐cultural research in team‐based settings has increased dramatically in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of six different viewpoints regarding identifying...

...Christiane Veronika Müller The paper reflects the team process of an international interdisciplinary research team from the perspective of recent developments in systemic approaches in the German speaking world. From this basis the reflection focuses on the differences that influenced the team...

...Marja Flory Reports on the author’s experiences as facilitator of an international, academic research team which consisted of members with different cultural backgrounds. Reviews the communication processes and group‐dynamics that occurred within this team, in particular those which seemed...

...Malcolm Higgs; Victor Dulewicz This paper reports on the development of a questionnaire designed to measure the process aspects of the board as a working group. This initial study has been conducted among senior management teams due to the difficulty in gaining access to a sufficiently large sample...