Team Structure and Regulatory Focus: The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Team Dynamic

Autor/inn/en	Dimotakis, Nikolaos; Davison, Robert B.; Hollenbeck, John R.
Titel	Team Structure and Regulatory Focus: The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Team Dynamic
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Psychology, 97 (2012) 2, S.421-434 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9010
DOI	10.1037/a0026701
Schlagwörter	Prevention; Leadership Training; Experiments; Task Analysis; Observation; Models; Performance; Teamwork; Theories; Undergraduate Students; Higher Education; Data Analysis; Group Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Führungslehre; Erprobung; Aufgabenanalyse; Beobachtung; Analogiemodell; Achievement; Leistung; Theory; Theorie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Auswertung; Gruppenstruktur
Abstract	We report a within-teams experiment testing the effects of fit between team structure and regulatory task demands on task performance and satisfaction through average team member positive affect and helping behaviors. We used a completely crossed repeated-observations design in which 21 teams enacted 2 tasks with different regulatory focus characteristics (prevention and promotion) in 2 organizational structures (functional and divisional), resulting in 84 observations. Results suggested that salient regulatory demands inherent in the task interacted with structure to determine objective and subjective team-level outcomes, such that functional structures were best suited to (i.e., had best fit with) tasks with a prevention regulatory focus and divisional structures were best suited to tasks with a promotion regulatory focus. This contingency finding integrates regulatory focus and structural contingency theories, and extends them to the team level with implications for models of performance, satisfaction, and team dynamics. (Contains 4 tables and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10