Beyond Status: Relating Status Inequality to Performance and Health in Teams

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Christie, Amy M.; Barling, Julian
• 署名单位: Wilfrid Laurier University; Queens University - Canada
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0019856
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 920-934
• 关键词: status; INEQUALITY; teams

摘要

Status structures in organizations are ubiquitous yet largely ignored in organizational research. We offer a conceptualization of team status inequality, or the extent to which status positions on a team are dispersed. Status inequality is hypothesized to be negatively related to individual performance and physical health for low-status individuals when uncooperative behavior is high. Trajectories of the outcomes across time are also explored. Analyses using multilevel modeling largely support our hypotheses in a sample of National Basketball Association players across six time points from 2000 to 2005.