Managing the trade-off between autonomy and task interdependence in creative teams: The role of organizational-level cultural control

IF 3.6 2区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS, FINANCE
Isabella Grabner , Aleksandra Klein , Gerhard Speckbacher
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Abstract

In the creative industries, creative output is often produced in temporary project teams, staffed with employees from within the organization. In this study we make two main contributions regarding the management of creative performance in such teams. First, we provide evidence for a fundamental trade-off inherent in creative teamwork. Team creativity benefits both from high team member autonomy and high task interdependence, but when team leaders give higher autonomy to team members then this undermines the positive effect of a more interdependent design of teamwork on team creativity, and vice versa. Second, we argue that cultural control at the organizational level is an effective means to resolve this team-level trade-off and to enable teams to leverage both high autonomy and high task interdependence for higher team creativity. We test our hypotheses using survey data collected at three different organizational levels (team members, team leaders, and agency heads) from 372 individuals of 101 temporary project teams within 53 advertising agencies, and find evidence consistent with our predictions.

管理创造性团队中自主性和任务相互依赖之间的权衡:组织层面文化控制的作用
在创意产业中,创意产出通常是在临时项目团队中产生的,由组织内部的员工组成。在本研究中,我们对这类团队中创造性表现的管理做出了两个主要贡献。首先,我们为创造性团队合作中固有的基本权衡提供了证据。团队创造力受益于团队成员的高度自治和高度任务相互依赖,但是当团队领导者给予团队成员更高的自主权时,这就破坏了团队合作中更相互依赖的设计对团队创造力的积极影响,反之亦然。其次,我们认为组织层面的文化控制是解决这种团队层面权衡的有效手段,并使团队能够利用高度自治和高度任务相互依赖来获得更高的团队创造力。我们从53家广告公司的101个临时项目团队的372名个人中收集了三个不同的组织层面(团队成员、团队领导和代理负责人)的调查数据来检验我们的假设,并找到了与我们的预测一致的证据。
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CiteScore
7.80
自引率
6.40%
发文量
38
期刊介绍: Accounting, Organizations & Society is a major international journal concerned with all aspects of the relationship between accounting and human behaviour, organizational structures and processes, and the changing social and political environment of the enterprise.
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