Abstract
An important question in the field of team research is how teams can optimize their collaboration to maximize their performance. When team members who are collaborating towards a common purpose experience flow together, the team, as a performing unit, improves its performance and delivers individual happiness to its members. From a practical point of view, it is relevant to know how team flow experiences arise within professional organizations. The aim of this study is therefore to get more insight into the how the elements of team flow emerge. We conducted interviews with team members, business leaders, and team experts, and in addition a survey with team members. The results provide confirmation of the existing research on team dynamics, flow, group and team flow and indicate that a collective ambition, professional autonomy, and open communication must be deliberately and carefully cultivated to set the stage for the other team flow prerequisites and thence for team flow to emerge.
Highlights
An important question in the field of team research is how teams deliver optimal performance
We will start with a brief overview of team flow theory, present the qualitative study in which we report on data collected from interviews with team members and team experts
In addition to confirming extant research on the elements and characteristics of team flow, this study was aimed at analyzed the relationships between the constructs at the experiential level
Summary
An important question in the field of team research is how teams deliver optimal performance. We know a lot about the factors that influence the effectiveness of teams at work in organizations, including group composition, cohesiveness, goal setting, and motivation, which can vary by type of team or autonomous work group (Guzzo & Dickson, 1996; Hackman & Wageman, 2005; Katzenbach & Smith, 1993). Findings from these studies provide strong support for the value that teams contribute to organizational effectiveness and specify the basic conditions needed to support an effective team. One of the primary benefits of this experience is that it promotes an intrinsic desire to seek greater levels of skill and corresponding challenges, which in turn means producing higher-level work (Csikszentmihalyi et al, 2005)
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