To Link or Not to Link? Multiple Team Membership and Unit Performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Crawford, Eean R.; Reeves, Cody J.; Stewart, Greg L.; Astrove, Stacy L.
• 署名单位: US Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Health Administration (VHA); Iowa City VA Health Care System; University of Iowa; Brigham Young University; University System of Ohio; John Carroll University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/apl0000381
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 341-356
• 关键词: multiple team membership; unit performance; TASK COMPLEXITY; archival measures

摘要

Multiple team membership is common in today's team-based organizations, but little is known about its relationship with collective effectiveness across teams. We adopted a microfoundations framework utilizing existing individual-and team-level research to develop a higher-level perspective on multiple team membership's relationship with performance of entire units of teams. We tested our predictions with data collected from 849 primary care units of the Veterans Health Administration serving over 4.2 million patients. In this context, we found multiple team membership is negatively associated with unit performance, and this negative relationship is exacerbated by task complexity.