From Individual Change Agents to ‘Revolutionary’ Teams: The Search and Selection Process of Team Formation within a Community of Practice

IF 2.2 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Cara Margherio, Anna L. Swan, Selen Güler
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While the role of teams in leading transformations within academia is increasingly recognized, few studies have analyzed how teams form. Understanding the processes of interdisciplinary team formation within higher education will allow leaders to intentionally bring together individuals and form teams with higher likelihoods of success. In this study, we examine the early stages of change team formation within higher education, specifically looking at the two interconnected processes of search and selection, and we explore how a community of practice influences these processes through situated learning. Our longitudinal qualitative analysis demonstrates how teams form and transform over time, from the initial search process for team members to the factors that informed the initial and ongoing selection of team members. We find that a community of practice influenced these processes by shaping how teams understood their instrumental needs and how members understood their role within interdisciplinary teams. Finally, we examine a correlation between leadership structure and team member turnover, finding that a centralized leadership structure that lacks a vision for change shared among team members may drive turnover. The results provide insights into the dynamic nature of change team formation within academia.

从个人变革者到 "革命性 "团队:实践社区中团队组建的搜寻和选择过程
虽然团队在领导学术界转型中的作用日益得到认可,但很少有研究分析团队是如何形成的。了解高等教育中跨学科团队的组建过程,可以让领导者有意识地将个人聚集在一起,组建更有可能取得成功的团队。在本研究中,我们考察了高等教育变革团队组建的早期阶段,特别是考察了搜索和选择这两个相互关联的过程,并探讨了实践社区如何通过情景学习影响这些过程。我们的纵向定性分析展示了团队是如何随着时间的推移而形成和转变的,从最初寻找团队成员的过程,到最初和持续选择团队成员的因素。我们发现,实践社区通过影响团队如何理解其工具性需求以及成员如何理解其在跨学科团队中的角色,对这些过程产生了影响。最后,我们研究了领导结构与团队成员流动之间的相关性,发现缺乏团队成员共同变革愿景的集中式领导结构可能会导致团队成员流动。研究结果为学术界组建变革团队的动态性质提供了启示。
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Innovative Higher Education
Innovative Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
CiteScore
4.30
自引率
9.10%
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46
期刊介绍: Innovative Higher Education is a refereed scholarly journal that strives to package fresh ideas in higher education in a straightforward and readable fashion. The four main purposes of Innovative Higher Education are: (1) to present descriptions and evaluations of current innovations and provocative new ideas with relevance for action beyond the immediate context in higher education; (2) to focus on the effect of such innovations on teaching and students; (3) to be open to diverse forms of scholarship and research methods by maintaining flexibility in the selection of topics deemed appropriate for the journal; and (4) to strike a balance between practice and theory by presenting manuscripts in a readable and scholarly manner to both faculty and administrators in the academic community.
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