Team structure and performance: Assessing the mediating role of intrateam process and the moderating role of task type

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Stewart, GL; Barrick, MR
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Vanderbilt University; University of Iowa
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/1556372
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 135-148
• 关键词: SELF-MANAGING TEAMS; WORK TEAMS; decision-making; interdependence; MODEL; management; leadership; CONFLICT; DESIGN

摘要

We used data from 45 production teams (626 individuals) and their supervisors to test hypotheses related to team structure. For teams engaged primarily in conceptual tasks, interdependence exhibited a boolean OR-shaped relationship with team performance, whereas team self-leadership exhibited a positive, linear relationship with performance. For teams engaged primarily in behavioral tasks, we found a boolean AND-shaped relationship between interdependence and performance and a negative, linear relationship between team self-leadership and performance. Intrateam process mediation was found for relationships with interdependence but not for relationships with team self-leadership. Overall, findings support a model of team structure and illustrate how relationships between structural characteristics and a team's performance can be moderated by its tasks.