Nonlinear effects of team tenure on team psychological safety climate and climate strength: Implications for average team member performance.

The Journal of applied psychology Pub Date : 2016-03-07 DOI:10.1037/apl0000097

Jaclyn Koopmann, Klodiana Lanaj, Mo Wang, Le Zhou, Junqi Shi

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Abstract

The teams literature suggests that team tenure improves team psychological safety climate and climate strength in a linear fashion, but the empirical findings to date have been mixed. Alternatively, theories of group formation suggest that new and longer tenured teams experience greater team psychological safety climate than moderately tenured teams. Adopting this second perspective, we used a sample of 115 research and development teams and found that team tenure had a curvilinear relationship with team psychological safety climate and climate strength. Supporting group formation theories, team psychological safety climate and climate strength were higher in new and longer tenured teams compared with moderately tenured teams. Moreover, we found a curvilinear relationship between team tenure and average team member creative performance as partially mediated by team psychological safety climate. Team psychological safety climate improved average team member task performance only when team psychological safety climate was strong. Likewise, team tenure influenced average team member task performance in a curvilinear manner via team psychological safety climate only when team psychological safety climate was strong. We discuss theoretical and practical implications and offer several directions for future research. (PsycINFO Database Record

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团队任期对团队心理安全气候和气候强度的非线性影响:对团队成员平均绩效的启示。

团队文献表明，团队任期对团队心理安全气候和气候强度的改善呈线性关系，但迄今为止的实证研究结果喜忧参半。另外，团队形成理论表明，新的和较长的任期团队比中等任期的团队经历更大的团队心理安全气候。采用第二种视角，我们以115个研发团队为样本，发现团队任期与团队心理安全气候和气候强度呈曲线关系。支持团队形成理论、团队心理安全气候和气候强度在新、长任期团队中均高于中等任期团队。此外，我们发现团队任期与团队成员平均创造绩效之间存在曲线关系，团队心理安全气候在其中起部分中介作用。只有当团队心理安全气氛较强时，团队心理安全气氛才能提高团队成员的平均任务绩效。同样，只有当团队心理安全气候较强时，团队任期才会通过团队心理安全气候影响团队成员的平均任务绩效。我们讨论了理论和实践意义，并提出了未来研究的几个方向。(PsycINFO数据库记录

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