Abstract
While research on positive effects of individual level proactive personality has proliferated, researchers still have limited understanding of how proactive personality functions at team level. This paper proposes a curvilinear relationship between team level proactive personality and team performance, and considers team cohesion and team potency as two mediators and team political skill as a contingent factor. Analyses of two field studies using independent samples (teams from various industries for Study 1 and nursing teams from hospitals for Study 2) revealed that team proactive personality has an inverted-U shaped relationship with team performance through team cohesion and team potency, respectively; this curvilinear mediated relationship was moderated by team political skill, such that high team political skill mitigated the negative (downward) trend of the curvilinear relationship, while low team political skill exacerbated such negative trend. We conclude with discussing the implications.
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