Abstract
BackgroundTeams in organizations are increasingly employed to generate creative outcomes that could lead to the next big innovation. Previous research argues that a team's ability to generate such creative outcomes partly depends on the occurrence of certain team characteristics and processes.AimsThe current work constructs and tests a cross-level model of team creativity and team learning. The role of within-team agreement for the emergence of several team processes is investigated.MethodsAll constructs were measured using previously validated scales. Data collected from 112 design teams (nindividuals = 540) are analyzed using multilevel structural equation modeling.Results and conclusionInitial results show that psychological safety and team creative efficacy are the strongest predictors for team processes and team effectiveness. Two team-level variables assessing within-team agreement are shown to be a strong predictors for team processes and team effectiveness: when team members agree on the team’s c...
Highlights
Confronted with a rapidly changing and competitive environment, organizations are constantly looking to produce the big thing
This study focuses on the role of psychological safety and team interdependence for the emergence of team learning, team creativity, and team effectiveness
Most included team processes are positively associated with team effectiveness: co-construction shows the strongest relation to team effectiveness, followed by facilitating team processes and error communication
Summary
Confronted with a rapidly changing and competitive environment, organizations are constantly looking to produce the big thing. Previous research states that the nature of the interpersonal processes and characteristics that emerge in a team has an influence on a team’s creative performance (Mumford, Feldman, Hein, & Nagao, 2001). Teams in organizations are increasingly employed to generate creative outcomes that could lead to the big innovation. Previous research argues that a team's ability to generate such creative outcomes partly depends on the occurrence of certain team characteristics and processes. Two team-level variables assessing within-team agreement are shown to be a strong predictors for team processes and team effectiveness: when team members agree on the team’s creative capacity and the level of psychological safety, the team will experience a higher degree of effectiveness and will engage more in co-construction and facilitating processes that are the seeds for creating creative outcomes
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