Team Commitment Research Articles

Sekret tajnej policji. Funkcjonariusze Służby Bezpieczeństwa wobec religii i Kościoła

This article is the result of my research on the authorities of the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL). During my study, I used the methodology of sociological qualitative research, specifically the biographical method, to investigate the operating mechanisms of the authorities of the PRL. I based the article on recorded interviews with 32 former members of the Security Service (SB) apparatus, as well as other biographical materials contained in the personal files of SS (SB) officers. While analysing them, I referred to research on the totalitarian system, in particular a paper on the subject of the history, structure and activities of the SS (SB). The aim of this article is to present the phenomenon of hidden religiosity among SS (SB) functionaries, which led to team loyalty resulting from knowledge of reciprocal offenses and the possibility of blackmail. Adam Podgórecki named this a „dirty community”.

P10.01: How Did the War Affect Organ Transplantation in Syria?

Since 2011, the Syrian conflict has destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. The deteriorating humanitarian situation has involved health workers and facilities. In 2010, before the war, 385 kidney transplants were performed in Syria. This number declined to 154 in 2013 (60% less) before increasing to 251 transplants in 2018, which is still 35% less than the number of transplants performed before the war. In addition, the number of operational kidney transplant centers has decreased from 8 in 2010, distributed over 3 cities, to only 4 in 2013, all located in Damascus, which increased to 6 centers in 2019. Interestingly, with regard to type of living donor, the percentage of unrelated kidney donors has decreased by 20% for unclear reasons. Another alarming statistic is that more than 50% of kidney transplant physicians and surgeons are no longer practicing transplant medicine in their centers, either because they have left the country or because their centers had become nonoperational. Since the war, free and timely provision of immunosuppressive drugs for all patients in all provinces has been a leading challenge for health authorities and transplant patients. This difficulty has led to adverse medical consequences for patients. A project to initiate liver transplant came to a halt because of complex reasons but mainly because foreign trainers could not visit Syria. Although the autologous bone marrow transplant program had slowed until recently, it has become more active, involving both autologous and allogeneic transplants. The deceased-donor program is still not available in Syria; the war has just reinforced the many reasons that prevented the start of this program before the conflict. The commitment of transplant teams despite these large challenges continues to be extraordinary. The Syrian conflict has affected all aspects of organ transplant, paralyzing new projects and negatively affecting existing programs.

Team loyalty and intergenerational influence: the role of nurturant fathering in the transference process

PurposeThis study assessed the intergenerational influence of family socialization, specifically, nurturant fathering – the affective quality fathers provide children through warmth and acceptance – to explore how individuals initially connect with a sports team to become team-loyal.Design/methodology/approachData were collected via an online survey from respondents self-described as college football fans who selected their “Favorite NCAA Division I football team.” The 623 respondents subsequently selected their biological father's favorite team. An intergenerational “match” between father and child served as the dependent variable. Step-wise logistic regression assessed the relationship that team loyalty, nurturant fathering, and their interaction had on the intergenerational matching of a father's favorite team.FindingsTeam loyalty had a significant, positive relationship with an intergenerational match. A positive but weak direct relationship was found between nurturant fathering and a favorite-team match. However, nurturant fathering significantly moderated the relationship between team loyalty and intergenerational match. This suggests that the quality of a father-child relationship during the child's formative years can facilitate team loyalty to a team favored by the father.Research limitations/implicationsThe strength and quality of the relationship between a father and his children through nurturant fathering during their formative years can facilitate mutual team loyalty toward a college football team if not directly, then indirectly, through an interaction effect with a parent-socialized, team-loyal child.Practical implicationsCollege athletic teams, and sports properties in general, should address the bond between fathers and their children to take advantage of the intergenerational transference process identified in this study through targeted, family-focused sports marketing. More specifically, university athletic departments should engage in marketing efforts that encourage and solidify the mutual loyalty fathers and children may have to their father's favorite football team. The outcome would be a competitive advantage that leads to the cultivation of long-lasting fans from generation to generation.Social implicationsCollege football teams and sports properties in general should engage in father-child marketing promotions to encourage and enhance the intergenerational influence of fathers on their children with respect to the father's favorite team. However, while building future team loyalty among the children, these marketing promotions and the resultant father-child game attendance concurrently reinforce the father-child relationship. This ideally leads to a virtuous cycle of parental bonding and team loyalty.Originality/valueThis study extends research in intergenerational influence in a sports setting by introducing the construct of Nurturant Fathering and its scale to the sports marketing literature. The results found that a nurturing father can facilitate the formation of a mutual team loyalty between a father and his child with regard to the father's favorite football team. Extant research has focused on the behavioral elements of loyalty (e.g. attendance and revenues). This study's focus was on the attitudinal aspects of team loyalty. It empirically identified, at least in part, how individuals initially connect with a sports team to become team-loyal.

Moderate Effects of Organizational Commitments on Team Commitments and Negotiations on Conflict Handling (Empirical Study: Indonesian Government)

The conflict between teams is an interaction in the organization's daily life. To reveal the effect of negotiation and team commitment on conflict resolution (in integrating it) in the context of the construct of inter-team conflict and investigate how organizational commitment moderates the relationship between team negotiation and team commitment. The author conducted a questionnaire survey on employees in the Indonesian public sector with a sample of 224 responses. Structural equation modelling was used to analyze data and test hypotheses. Using Smart PLS 3.0. The results reveal that team commitment and negotiation positively relate to integrating behaviour. In addition, moderating organizational commitment to negotiation and team commitment was positively related to conflict handling behaviour when organizations have different orientations in their goals. Finally, higher conflict handling reinforces the positive effects of integrating negotiation and team commitment. The findings can help practitioners to predict team commitment, negotiation according to the organization and handling conflicts within the organization. This can allow practitioners to adjust their strategy and steer commitments and negotiations toward mutually beneficial conflict resolution outcomes. This study applies the theory of integrated conflict management due to team commitment and negotiation and empirically examines the relationship in the employee context. Moreover, this study reveals that organizational commitment moderates this linkage

Relationship between Sports Education Students’ Team Loyalty and Sports Organization Consumption

This research aims to analyze how students who acquire sports education feel about their teams and how they consume sports organizations in terms of many aspects. The Sports Organizations Consumption Scale (SOTS), which has 25 questions and 5 factors, and the Team Loyalty Scale, which has 10 items and 2 factors, were used as evaluation tools. Using the SPSS 25.0 package program, parametric analyses were performed on the acquired data. Then, a “Pearson correlation analysis was used to establish the level and direction of the association between the dependent variables. The students’ team loyalty levels and their consumption of sports organizations have been found to have a positive and moderate level relationship (r= 0.44; p.000). In terms of gender, class, and being a national athlete, there was a significant difference in the perspectives of students who had athletic training (p0.05).

The Multi-Level Nature of Psychological Ownership: Exploring its Antecedents and Consequences

Scholars emphasize the importance of psychological ownership (i.e., a feeling of possession towards an object independent of legal ownership) for desired behaviors and attitudes in corporate contexts. Psychological ownership is a multi-level phenomenon, meaning that the emotional attachment it implies might pertain to the overall organization as well as to organizational sub-units (e.g. business units). Hitherto, however, there is little empirical evidence on the antecedents, consequences, and vertical spillover effects of psychological ownership. To address this research gap, our paper presents arguments explaining how psychological ownership positively affects organizational performance by diffusing from higher levels of the organization towards lower levels. Furthermore, we suggest that error management culture and high affective commitment within teams, constitutes environmental conditions that let psychological ownership thrive. To test our theorizing, we created a unique dataset combining archival data with two surveys among 1,536 employees and 66 managers of an organization. Our results indicate that psychological ownership towards the business unit indeed enhances performance and mediates the effect of psychological ownership towards the entire organization. Additionally, our findings suggest that error management culture and the increase of affective commitment in teams pose mechanisms that can enhance psychological ownership towards the business unit. With these findings, our study yields important theoretical and practical implications.

Implementing public involvement throughout the research process-Experience and learning from the GPs in EDs study.

Public involvement in health services research is encouraged. Descriptions of public involvement across the whole research cycle of a major study are uncommon and its effects on research conduct are poorly understood. This study aimed to describe how we implemented public involvement, reflect on process and effects in a large-scale multi-site research study and present learning for future involvement practice. We recorded public involvement roles and activities throughout the study and compared these to our original public involvement plan included in our project proposal. We held a group interview with study co-applicants to explore their experiences, transcribed the recorded discussion and conducted thematic analysis. We synthesized the findings to develop recommendations for future practice. Public contributors' activities went beyond strategic study planning and management to include active involvement in data collection, analysis and dissemination. They attended management, scrutiny, planning and task meetings. They also facilitated public involvement through annual planning and review sessions, conducted a Public Involvement audit and coordinated public and patient input to stakeholder discussions at key study stages. Group interview respondents said that involvement exceeded their expectations. They identified effects such as changes to patient recruitment, terminology clarification and extra dissemination activities. They identified factors enabling effective involvement including team and leader commitment, named support contact, building relationships and demonstrating equality and public contributors being confident to challenge and flexible to meet researchers' timescales and work patterns. There were challenges matching resources to roles and questions about the risk of over-professionalizing public contributors. We extended our planned approach to public involvement and identified benefits to the research process that were both specific and general. We identified good practice to support effective public involvement in health services research that study teams should consider in planning and undertaking research. This paper was co-conceived, co-planned and co-authored by public contributors to contribute research evidence, based on their experiences of active involvement in the design, implementation and dissemination of a major health services research study.

Investigating the Relationships Between Team Image, Team Loyalty and Spectator Motives in Football: Sample of Büyükşehir Belediye Erzurumspor

Bu araştırmanın amacı Büyükşehir Belediye Erzurumspor taraftarının takım imajı, takım sadakati ve seyirci güdüleri arasındaki ilişkilerin bazı değişkenler açısından karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmesidir. Araştırmada nicel desende deneysel olmayan yöntemlerden karşılaştırmalı ilişkisel tarama modeli kullanılmıştır. Gönüllü katılımın esas olduğu çalışmada örneklem grubu seçkisiz olmayan örnekleme yöntemlerinden uygun örnekleme ve ölçüt örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak belirlenmiştir. Bu kapsamda araştırmanın örneklemi Büyükşehir Belediyesi Erzurumspor taraftarı olan 556 katılımcıdan oluşmaktadır. Araştırmada veri elde etmek için, Kişisel Bilgi Formu, Takım İmajı Ölçeği, Takım Sadakati Ölçeği, Spor Seyircileri İçin Dışsal Güdü Ölçeği ve Spor Seyircileri İçin İçsel Güdü Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Anket uygulaması sonrasında elde edilen veriler SPSS paket programı yardımı ile analiz edilmiştir. İkili değişkenlerin karşılaştırılmasında parametrik bir test olan Pearson Correlation Analysis kullanılırken gruplar halinde gerçekleştirilen ikili korelasyon analizinden elde edilen r değerlerini karşılaştırmak için z skoru hesaplanmış ve gruplar arasında var olan farklar incelenmiştir. Analizler sonucu elde edilen bulgularda TV’de futbol izleme üyeliği değişkeni ile takım imajı, takım sadakati, spor seyircileri için dışsal güdü ve spor seyircileri için içsel güdü ölçekleri arasında pozitif yönlü düşük ve orta düzeyde ilişkiler olduğu gözlenirken lisanslı ürün satın alma değişkeni ile takım imajı, takım sadakati, spor seyircileri için dışsal güdü ve spor seyircileri için içsel güdü ölçekleri arasında pozitif yönlü düşük ve orta düzeyde ilişkiler olduğu görülmektedir.

КОНЦЕПТУАЛНИ ФАКТОРИ ЗА ЕКИПНА ЕФЕКТИВНОСТ ВЪВ ВИРТУАЛЕН КОНТЕКСТ

The key prerequisites, regularities and processes associated with the design and operation of highly efficient virtual teams are studied. The indicators for team effectiveness are specified and the specific influences of various factors on the immediate results are analyzed – structure of the virtual team, social and emotional commitment and individual characteristics of the team members, performance management and virtual team dynamics. The focus is on the main challenges for to the effectiveness of virtual structures at the organizational, team and individual levels. The multifaceted multilateral connections in the team structures are explored through the prism of virtuality and geographical variance are studied. The goal is to find a common theoretical and methodological basis to identify the conceptual dimensions of team effectiveness in a virtual environment.

대학 온라인 팀 학습에서 자기평가와 동료평가의 일치유형이 팀 효과성에 미치는 영향

Objectives This study aimed to examine the effect of the types of agreement of self-evaluation and peer evaluation on team effectiveness in the contribution evaluation for team learning. Methods To this end, a study was conducted focusing on the online team learning environment for 16 weeks on 173 college students belonging to the same four essential liberal arts classes of C University in Seoul. Groups were classified according to the types of agreement, the independent variable of the study, resultantly into four groups : agreement group in good score, over-estimator, under-estimator, and agreement group in bad score. Team effectiveness, the dependent variable of the study, was measured at week 16 through sub-constructs of team effectiveness (team performance, team commitment, team satisfaction). Results A significantly higher difference was found in all sub-constructs of team effectiveness than other groups between the ‘agreement group in good score’ and the ‘under-estimator’. On the other hand, the ‘agreement group in bad score’ and the ‘over-estimator’ showed low scores in all sub-constructs of team effectiveness. Conclusions In conclusion, the necessity of customized strategies of instruction was suggested and discussed according to the types of agreement of self-evaluation and peer evaluation to help instructors lead efficient team activities in team classes.

Emotional Dissonance and Affective Organizational Commitment in Family Firm Top Management Teams

This article studies the impact of emotional dissonance experienced in interactions with the CEO on affective organizational commitment in family firm top management teams. We argue that this relationship will be mediated by the level of satisfaction with the CEO. Additionally, we propose that CEO ownership will have a moderating effect. Using a multiple-respondent dataset of 212 top managers from 45 family firms, we find that emotional dissonance leads to less satisfaction with the CEO, influencing the level of affective organizational commitment. This relationship is even stronger if the CEO has a high degree of ownership power.

Virtual Fitness: investigating team commitment and post-pandemic virtual workout perceptions

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the fitness landscape leading to phenomenal growth in virtual workouts. This study investigates factors influencing virtual workout team commitment and post-pandemic workout intentions. A conceptual framework is developed that is grounded in the social identity theory. Online data collection is employed to gather responses from 406 team virtual workout participants. Results reveal that virtual workout team participation positively influences team identification, satisfaction, and compliance with team norms. Additionally, virtual workout team identification, satisfaction, and compliance to team norms were found to be antecedents of commitment to the virtual workout team. Commitment to virtual workout teams is revealed to be positively associated with post-pandemic virtual team workout intention and post-pandemic traditional team workout intention. However, the relationship with post-pandemic traditional team workout intentions was found to be stronger. Valuable theoretical and practical insights emerge, providing a better understanding of virtual workout team commitment and how marketers and practitioners can ensure post-pandemic success by better understanding customer behaviour.

Team mindfulness, team commitment and team respectful engagement: the lens of the conservation of resources theory and the broaden-and-build theory

Purpose This conceptual paper aims to present a model and propositions regarding the positive effect of team mindfulness on team commitment and how team respectful engagement moderates the positive effect of team mindfulness on team commitment. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual study that presents a model and propositions from an exploration of the previous literature by using the conservation of resources (COR) theory and the broaden-and-build theory. Findings The contribution of this study shows that team mindfulness has a positive effect on team commitment. Then, when team respectful engagement is high, it strengthens the positive effect of team mindfulness on team commitment. When team respectful engagement is low, it weakens the positive effect of team mindfulness on team commitment. Research limitations/implications The limitation of this research is that it only explains the causal relationships related to team mindfulness, team commitment and team respectful engagement through propositions built from the synthesis of various previous studies, without empirically confirming those relationships. Practical implications Teams should consider mindfulness training, such as mindfulness-based stress reduction. In addition, managers should also pay great attention to team respectful engagement, so that the interactions within the team are based on respect. Originality/value Limited research has been conducted to propose the model and propositions related to team mindfulness, team commitment and team respectful engagement by using the COR theory and the broaden-and-build theory.

Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC) Methodology as a Roadmap in Quality Improvement.

Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC) Methodology as a Roadmap in Quality Improvement.

프로 야구단의 소셜 미디어 특성이 팀 충성도에 미치는 영향 : 진정성의 매개효과를 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of professional baseball team"s social media activity on team loyalty and further verify the mediating effect of authenticity. To achieve this purpose, an online questionnaire was distributed to subscribers of the professional baseball fan page, and frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, normality verification, multiple regression analysis, and mediating effect verification were applied using a total of 215 questionnaires. First, as a result of examining the effect of professional baseball team"s social media characteristics on team loyalty, it was found that information and interest had a positive (+) effect on team loyalty, but empathy and responsiveness had no significant effect. Second, as a result of examining the mediating effect of authenticity on the effect of professional baseball team"s social media characteristics on team loyalty, it was found that authenticity was partially mediated in the relationship between the two variables. This study provides meaningful research results differentiated from existing studies by using team loyalty and authenticity on the rapidly changing social media activities of professional baseball teams. It is expected to be used as a marketing strategy.

Virtual teams are here to stay: How personality traits, virtuality and leader gender impact trust in the leader and team commitment

Teleworking has, today, become a necessity for many organizations, so effective virtual team management is critical. This study analyzes the influence of the personality traits of virtual team workers on team efficiency. To do so we examine the effects of subordinates’ personalities on the trust they give the virtual team leader and the impact of this trust on commitment to the team. We also discuss how the team's degree of virtuality and the leader's gender influence the relationship between personality and trust. The findings showed that extroversion has a positive effect on trust felt in the leader, and that this trust has a positive effect on commitment felt toward the team. On the other hand, it was observed that neuroticism had a more negative effect on trust in more virtual environments. The leader's gender had no significant effect. The study offers advice for virtual team management and discusses its limitations and future research directions.

Teams of rural physicians matter: Testing a framework of team effectiveness.

To examine how rural physician team effectiveness predicts outcomes of team performance, team commitment, and intentions to stay. Surveys measuring team climate, team efficacy, and team performance were sent to rural physician team members. Surveys measuring team performance were sent to external observers in supervisory positions. Northern Ontario communities. Rural physicians and external observers, the latter including hospital chief executive officers, family health team executive directors, and clinic managers. Total scale scores were generated using mean substitution. Cronbach α was used to assess internal consistencies of team member-level measures. Team-level measures were created by averaging the responses across team members, and intraclass correlation coefficients for each scale of each team of 2 or more members were calculated to yield a measure of rating consistency. A t test was used to assess the possible difference between team performance ratings by team members and external observers. Team-level relationships within the team effectiveness model were assessed using mediated regression, and generalized estimating equations were used to assess the relationships in the model between team-level (team efficacy) and individual-level (affective team commitment and intentions to stay) variables to address the nonindependence of these data. Overall, 70 rural physicians from 26 Rural and Northern Physician Group Agreement communities with 2 or more physicians and 25 external observers from 19 of the 26 Rural and Northern Physician Group Agreement communities participated in the study. The findings showed that team climate (composed of decision making, communication, and conflict resolution measures) positively predicted team efficacy, which in turn positively predicted team performance. This fully mediated set of relationships held whether team performance was rated by the physicians themselves or by the external observers. Team efficacy significantly predicted affective team commitment (b value=0.69, standard error=0.08, Wald =13.89, P<.001) in the first analysis and intentions to stay (b value=0.34, standard error=0.15; Wald =5.42, P=.020) in the second analysis. However, when the other variables impacting physician retention were added to the model in predicting intentions to stay, team efficacy did not predict it above and beyond these additional predictors. The findings support initiatives that attempt to enhance physician team effectiveness in rural physician teams by influencing team decision making, communication, and conflict resolution to improve team performance, physician attitudes, and commitment.

Correction to: The Influence of Identity Faultlines on Employees’ Team Commitment: the Moderating Role of Inclusive Leadership and Team Identification

Correction to: The Influence of Identity Faultlines on Employees’ Team Commitment: the Moderating Role of Inclusive Leadership and Team Identification

Toward a Better Understanding of Parent Versus Local Team Branding in Minor League Baseball

Abstract: This research examines the effects on team loyalty of two minor league branding strategies, naming the team after its parent major league team or naming it after the local community in which it exists. We propose a mediation model in which four constructs (i.e., team identification, social bonding, community group experience, and pride in place) mediate effects of brand type on team loyalty, predicting that local branding will generate stronger team loyalty through these constructs. We also propose that place identity moderates the mediating effect of each of these four constructs. Structural equation modeling was used to test the mediation model, and moderated mediation tests using the bootstrapping method were used to test the moderating effects of place identity. Results revealed support for the model, indicating partial mediation of brand type effects on team loyalty for each of the four constructs, as well as a moderating effect of place identity.

'With great power comes great responsibility': An impetus for quality and safety in radiation oncology.

Strict quality control and vigilance at every step is essential to maintain rigour and ensure quality and safety in radiation oncology. The scientific knowledge and technological capabilities we possess give us enormous power to deliver specialised and complex treatments and improve health outcomes for our cancer patients. However, this requires development of whole system performance and its evaluation against established standards and benchmarks. It calls for organisational commitment and active participation of managers and clinical teams in quality improvement initiatives. In addition to medical physicists and radiation therapist, radiation oncologists, including trainees, must accept important leadership responsibilities to maintain a positive safety culture.