Voluntary Survey Completion Among Team Members: Implications of Noncompliance and Missing Data for Multilevel Research

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hirschfeld, Robert R.; Cole, Michael S.; Bernerth, Jeremy B.; Rizzuto, Tracey E.
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Texas Christian University; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0031909
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 454-468
• 关键词: composition models; deletion; multiple imputation; RESPONSE RATE; systematic nonresponse parameter

摘要

We explored whether voluntary survey completion by team members (in aggregate) is predictable from team members' collective evaluations of team-emergent states. In doing so, we reanalyze less-than-complete survey data on 110 teams from a published field study, using so-called traditional and modern missing data techniques to probe the sensitivity of these team-level relationships to data missingness. The multivariate findings revealed that a greater within-team participation rate was indeed related to a higher team-level (mean) score on team mental efficacy (across all four missing-data techniques) and less dispersion among team member judgments about internal cohesion (when the 2 modern methods were used). In addition, results show that a commonly used approach of retaining only those teams with high participation rates produces inflated standardized effect size (i.e., R-2) estimates and decreased statistical power. Suggestions include research design considerations and a comprehensive methodology to account for team member data missingness.