The Cognitive Underpinnings of Effective Teamwork: A Meta-Analysis

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: DeChurch, Leslie A.; Mesmer-Magnus, Jessica R.
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0017328
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 32-53
• 关键词: team cognition; mental model; TRANSACTIVE MEMORY; shared cognition; Meta-analysis

摘要

Major theories of team effectiveness position emergent collective cognitive processes as central drivers of team performance. We meta-analytically cumulated 231 correlations culled from 65 independent studies of team cognition and its relations to teamwork processes, motivational states, and performance outcomes. We examined both broad relationships among cognition, behavior, motivation, and performance, as well as 3 underpinnings of team cognition as potential moderators of these relationships. Findings reveal there is indeed a cognitive foundation to teamwork; team cognition has strong positive relationships to team behavioral process, motivational states, and team performance. Meta-analytic regressions further indicate that team cognition explains significant incremental variance in team performance after the effects of behavioral and motivational dynamics have been controlled. The nature of emergence, form of cognition, and content of cognition moderate relationships among cognition, process, and performance, as do task interdependence and team type. Taken together, these findings not only cumulate extant research on team cognition but also provide a new interpretation of the impact of underlying dimensions of cognition as a way to frame and extend future research.