{"title":"Motivations to share knowledge in professional service teams: the moderating role of project stage","authors":"N. Nguyen, A. Phan, N. Doan","doi":"10.1108/tpm-11-2021-0083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-11-2021-0083","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to examine the effects of three-perspective motivations including task interdependence, normative conformity, affective bonding on team knowledge sharing (KS) and the moderating effects of project stage on the proposed model paths.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The quantitative method was applied through surveying senior auditors representing 263 audit teams in Vietnam.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Findings show that task interdependence has salient effect on team KS. Normative conformity and affective bonding become more important when projects move to later stages where knowledge shared is more tacit and the team involves more social interactions.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000This study puts forth the limitations related to the study scope of financial statement auditing teams that may influence the generalization.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000This study recommends auditing managers to be aware of diverse motivations for team KS and their increasingly important role in specific project stages.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The novelty of the research is to integrate three knowledge-sharing motivations based on economics, social and psychological perspectives and to affirm the dynamic nature of KS within team projects.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131880080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Haroon Shoukat, I. Elgammal, Syed Asim Shah, Hira Shaukat
{"title":"Nexus between shared leadership, workplace bullying, team learning, job insecurity and team performance in health care","authors":"Muhammad Haroon Shoukat, I. Elgammal, Syed Asim Shah, Hira Shaukat","doi":"10.1108/tpm-04-2021-0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-04-2021-0034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The primary objectives of this paper are to examine the mediating effect of team learning (TL) in the relationship between shared leadership (SL) and team performance (TP), to investigate the important contingencies-moderating role of workplace bullying in the relationship between SL and TL and to investigate the moderating role of job insecurity in the relationship between TL and TP in health-care organizations.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Based on the social learning theory, this study used the aggregation approach to collect data, by using a structured questionnaire and the purposive sampling technique, from 223 respondents (60 leaders and 174 team members) of 60 sales teams from the top 10 pharmaceutical companies. A structural equation modeling on SmartPLS 3.2.9. was then used for analyzing the data collected.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results indicate that SL significantly affects TP and that TL partially mediates this relationship. Workplace bullying has a significant impact as it reduces the effect of SL on TL and has a significant impact on TL. On the other hand, job insecurity has positively influenced TL and TP.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000One of the first studies in the Pakistan health-care producer context used social learning theory to develop a contingency model based on important contingencies (workplace bullying and job insecurity). The study contributes to the existing literature on team leadership, highlighting how leadership can be translated into team performance.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126835104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Steiro, Carsten Syvertsen, P. O. Saksvik, Ragnar Vennatrø
{"title":"The dynamics of structure, social interaction and flow – the case of Rosenborg Ballklub","authors":"T. Steiro, Carsten Syvertsen, P. O. Saksvik, Ragnar Vennatrø","doi":"10.1108/tpm-05-2021-0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-05-2021-0037","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this study is to look into the extraordinary performance of Rosenborg Ballklub (RBK) under coach Nils Arne Eggens’ leadership with several appearances in the Champions League, competing with more clubs with more resources.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000In-depth interviews with the coach and key players. Also combining with document studies.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000This study identified six key postulates that could be viewed as a minimal structure that was important for creating a picture of how Rosenborg’s attack play should be carried out. This study identifies a high commitment to the way of playing. Even if the way of playing was well known, the play was carried out with both a high pace and precision, making it hard for opponents to defend. The play pattern is closely linked to social interaction. Furthermore, the playing pattern was reproduced repeatedly, creating a platform for collective mastery.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The current study provides a detailed insight into the development of performance within a football club using different approaches. However, creating a common picture of what should be performed.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The current study can provide insight to football clubs but also other teams identifying a common pattern based on certain values.\u0000\u0000\u0000Social implications\u0000The study of Rosenborg Ballklub demonstrates the combinations of individual characters and strength (signature strength) within a collective using a holistic and complementary approach. One should focus on the strength of the team.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Original in understanding the way RBK performed. It also demonstrates a unique insight in applying flow theory as a means of developing a football team.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134062980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microsoft Teams and team performance in the COVID-19 pandemic within an NHS Trust Community Service in North-West England","authors":"Christopher Hargreaves, Andrew Clarke, K. Lester","doi":"10.1108/tpm-11-2021-0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-11-2021-0082","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to evaluate the impact the introduction of Microsoft Teams has had on team performance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic within a National Health Service (NHS) Community Service.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Microsoft Teams was rolled out across the NHS over a period of four days, partly in response to the need for social distancing. This case study reviews how becoming a virtual team affected team performance, the role Microsoft Teams had played in supporting staff to work in higher virtuality, understand what elements underpin a successful virtual team and how these results correlate to the technology acceptance model (Davis, 1985).\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The findings indicate that Teams made a positive impact to the team at a time of heightened clinical pressures and working in unfamiliar environments without the supportive benefits of face-to-face contact with colleagues in terms of incidental knowledge sharing and health and well-being.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Further developments were needed to make virtual meetings more accessible for introverted colleagues, support asynchronous communication, address training needs and support leaders to adapt and operate in higher virtuality.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127188613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My team makes me think I can (not) do it: team processes influence proactive motivational profiles over time","authors":"Greta Ontrup, A. Kluge","doi":"10.1108/tpm-05-2021-0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-05-2021-0036","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to investigate cross-level influences of team cohesion, trust and conflicts on team member’s proactive motivational profiles and outcomes of profile membership over time.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Data was collected in a four-month longitudinal field study with 47 teams (N = 202).\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Latent profile analysis derived four proactive motivational profiles. The higher motivated profiles reported better study outcomes, higher levels of team trust and cohesion and fewer conflicts over time. Team trust and interpersonal conflicts emerged as significant predictors of profile membership.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000Recommendations are derived on how to best manage teams and the members comprising it when trust in teams is low or interpersonal conflicts are high.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Applying a person-centred approach in a team context advances multi-level theories of team motivation by mapping the cross-level effects of team processes on different kinds of motivational states.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134394270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A theoretical exploration of out-group versus in-group perspectives on the dynamics of team effectiveness","authors":"Radu E. Vlas, Huy Will Nguyen, Cristina Vlas","doi":"10.1108/tpm-09-2021-0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-09-2021-0070","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Past research on transactive memory systems (TMS) often treated the focal team as an isolated entity. Previous literature overlooked two aspects of TMS: its existence beyond the boundaries of the focal team (further referred to as out-group TMS) and the way the out-group TMS helps teams adapt and remain effective when the circumstances change. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the overlooked aspects of TMS on the dynamics of team effectiveness.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This study adopts a theoretical perspective and proposes two sets of propositions. First set explores the overlooked construct of out-group TMS and defines the boundaries of its applicability by building on Lewis’ (2003) dimensions of TMS. Second set explores ways in which out-group TMS can combine with in-group TMS to enable higher team effectiveness in fast-paced settings facing uncertainty and change.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The study’s conceptual perspective builds the grounds for improving scholars’ understanding of the drivers of team effectiveness in relation to the locus of TMS. The study investigates ways to combine in-group and out-group TMS and conceptually discusses their effects on team effectiveness: a mediation, an interaction and an additive model. The investigation concludes that out-group TMS plays a critical role and that overlooking its impact can be devastating for organizations in fast-paced environments.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study unveils the unique and previously underexplored dynamics of transactive memory in teams with looser boundaries. Further, it extends scholars’ understanding of team cognition in contemporary, fast-paced business environments.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133754999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of working agile on team performance and engagement","authors":"T. Peeters, K. Van de Voorde, J. Paauwe","doi":"10.1108/tpm-07-2021-0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-07-2021-0049","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to examine the relationship between the agile way of working and team performance and engagement. Furthermore, psychological safety climate was investigated as a mediator of this relationship. As organizations are increasingly adopting the agile way of working method beyond the information technology (IT) setting, the authors researched its effects in teams across a variety of functional domains.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Survey data was collected from 97 agile teams working in various functional domains in a multinational bank. The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Results indicated that the agile way of working is directly and positively related to team engagement and performance. Moreover, psychological safety climate acted as a partial mediator of each of the respective outcomes.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study illustrated that the agile way of working is beneficial for teams beyond the IT setting, as it is positively associated with psychological safety climate, engagement and performance across functional domains.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130927926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A slack-based DEA analysis for the world cup teams","authors":"F. Gökgöz, Engin Yalçın","doi":"10.1108/tpm-07-2021-0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-07-2021-0050","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to assess the efficiency levels of World Cup teams via the slack-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach, which contributes to filling an important gap for performance measurement in football.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This study focuses on a comparative analysis of the past two World Cups. The authors initially estimate the efficiency of the World Cup teams via the slack-based DEA approach, which is a novel approach for sports performance measurement. The authors also present the conventional DEA results to compare results. The authors also include improvement ratios, which provide significant details for inefficient countries to enhance their efficiency. Besides, the authors include effectiveness ratings to present a complete performance overview of the World Cup teams.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000According to the analysis results of the slack-based DEA approach, titleholder Germany and France are found as efficient teams in the 2014 and 2018 World Cup, respectively. Besides, Belgium and Russia recorded the highest efficiency improvement in the 2018 World Cup. The novel approach for sports performance measurement, the slack-based DEA approach, significantly overlaps with the actual performance of teams.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study presents novelty in football performance by adopting the slack-based DEA with an undesirable output model for the performance measurement of the World Cup teams. This empirical analysis would be a pioneer study measuring the performance of football teams via the slack-based DEA approach.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127642521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paloma Bilbao-Calabuig, M. Fabra, Isabella Osadnik
{"title":"Exploring processes in Spanish, German and UK boards: a measurement framework of board know-how, board diversity and directors’ interactions interrelation","authors":"Paloma Bilbao-Calabuig, M. Fabra, Isabella Osadnik","doi":"10.1108/tpm-03-2021-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-03-2021-0020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Several empirical attempts have investigated boardroom processes and their impact on the governing team decision-making. Such attempts, however, have derived in inchoate results opening new methodological debates and leaving the underlying patterns of board processes obscure. This paper aims to shed light on these patterns by empirically examining the interrelation among the three central constructs involved in board decision-making: know-how, demographic diversity and directors’ social interactions.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000A framework of interrelation among know-how, demographic diversity and social interactions was conceptually built and empirically validated with partial least squares structural equation modelling applied to archival data from a sample of 87 boards of directors of Spanish, German and UK listed companies.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Results unmask the intricacies of behavioural processes involved in know-how-demography relation: demographic diversity contribution to know-how is totally and positively mediated by directors’ social interactions. This reveals the power of directors’ socialization frequency in determining processes and predicting know-how.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The paper offers a new pathway to manage board know-how and to make board diversity effective. It also opens a door to an innovative empirical methodology to make board processes emerge, one that overcomes methodological limitations of previous efforts.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This is so far the only study that examines and measures holistically the structural interrelation among the three central constructs determining board decisions and performance: know-how, diversity and social interactions.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133600527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence of emotional intelligence on team cohesion and the mediating effects of self-efficacy and trust: time-lagged approach","authors":"Kihwan Kim, Eun-Jeong Ko","doi":"10.1108/tpm-12-2020-0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm-12-2020-0102","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Using the input-mediator-output-input (IMOI) model, this paper aims to use longitudinal data to test team level self-efficacy and trust as mediators in the relationship between team emotional intelligence (EI) and team cohesion (TC) and examine the relationship between TC and team performance.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000In an experimental design, 347 senior business students (84 teams) played a simulation game for 12 weeks. The authors collected data at three different time points to avoid reverse causal effects in the mediation relationship.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000As hypothesized, trust and self-efficacy mediate the relationship between EI and TC. Moreover, TC is a strong and significant predictor of team performance.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The authors measured most variables using a self-reported survey, which can cause common method bias, and the authors used a business simulation game for the team task with student participants, which may limit the generalizability of the findings to other team contexts or populations.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000When forming work teams, managers should consider levels of EI and self-efficacy because they facilitate the development of trust and TC, which, in turn, lead to improved performance.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study contributes to the literature on EI and TC by revealing the mediating effects of trust and self-efficacy and contributes to the team literature by leveraging the IMOI model to explicate the mediation effects. This study’s longitudinal study design clarifies the causal relationship among EI, trust and self-efficacy and TC, thereby eliminating reverse causation concerns.\u0000","PeriodicalId":150524,"journal":{"name":"Team Performance Management: An International Journal","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126239943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}