Abstract

Organizations must fulfill in order to produce and sustain effective teams. Many factors can affect how effectively teams perform. Thus, this study offers the results of an investigation of the factors that donate to team effectiveness in higher education. Task interdependence, task conflict and personality traits appeared as key influences on team effectiveness. An overall of 275 randomly selected researchers from local Malaysian universities. The results were measured by the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. The empirical results showed task interdependence was found to be a critical factor in team effectiveness. Thus, task interdependence that emerged in this study offers a significant influence on the works on team effectiveness in professional contexts.

Highlights

  • Teams and groups in the place of work are not a novel phenomenon

  • This study determined three factors namely task conflict, task interdependence and the personality traits as key influences on of team effectiveness as supported by the literature

  • The findings suggested that task interdependence is positively connected with team effectiveness

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Introduction

Teams and groups in the place of work are not a novel phenomenon And officially they have occurred for a number of years as organizations explore for best methods to advance their total efficiency; no subject has gathered more attention in recent years as an option than that of teams. The fact that team-work has become an important subject in most educational and organizational settings in their research and development programs (Gabelica et al, 2012). This is mainly understandable in study institutions such as universities and colleges, where the difficulty and variety of their investigation teams construct teamwork and collaboration a requirement

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