Building the Infrastructure: The Effects of Role Identification Behaviors on Team Cognition Development and Performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pearsall, Matthew J.; Ellis, Aleksander P. J.; Bell, Bradford S.
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Arizona; Cornell University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0017781
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 192-200
• 关键词: TRANSACTIVE MEMORY; mental models; team development

摘要

The primary purpose of this study was to extend theory and research regarding the emergence of mental models and transactive memory in teams. Utilizing Kozlowski, Gully, Nason, and Smith's (1999) model of team compilation, we examined the effect of role identification behaviors and posited that such behaviors represent the initial building blocks of team cognition during the role compilation phase of team development. We then hypothesized that team mental models and transactive memory would convey the effects of these behaviors onto team performance in the team compilation phase of development. Results from 60 teams working on a command-and-control simulation supported our hypotheses.