MEDIATING EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE ON THE EFFECT OF TEAMWORK ATTITUDE ON TEAM PERFORMANCE

Abstract

The behavioral processes in which people manage independent work, and/or the affective, cognitive, and motivative states emerging during working are usually dedicated to “teamwork”. Behavioral processes involve actions like communication, coordination, expertise sharing, and help. Emergent states involved, ie., mutual respect and psychological safety. Organizational structure is defined as the formal system for duty and authority relationships controlling the way that individuals coordinate their actions and use resources to accomplish the goals of an organization that the job was changed from individual-oriented to collaborative approaches, in that case, teams were assumed to be the milestone of the structure for the organization. This study aims to examine the mediating effect of organizational structure on the effect of attitudes towards teamwork and its sub-dimensions (Team Structure, Leadership, Situation Monitoring, Mutual Support, Communication) on team performance. In this context, data were collected from 115 employees working at Fethi Sekin City Hospital in Elazığ, by survey method. “Teamwork Attitudes Scale”, “Teamwork Performance”, and “Organizational Structure scale” were used as data collection tools. The research was tested by using Process software. In the study, the Pearson correlation test, Process Regression analysis was used as one of the test techniques. As a result of the research, the effect of team structure, which is one of the sub-dimensions of teamwork attitudes, on team performance is mediated by the organic organizational structure. In addition, the effect of mutual support and communication, which are sub-dimensions of teamwork attitudes, on team performance is mediated by the organic organizational structure.