ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1303-0092
Keywords
Strategic Core, Roles, Workflow Centrality
Subject Categories
Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Human Resources Management | Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Abstract
Strategic core theory makes a distinction between roles within a team that are central to the team’s workflow (i.e., core roles) and those that are not central (i.e., non-core roles) (Humphrey et al., 2009). This line of work has shown that attributes, such as job-related skill of core team members, were more predictive of team performance than those of non-core members. However, this line of work has primarily examined core and non-core roles as defined by formal taskwork roles. In this thesis, I examine patient care teams and management simulation teams with the principal conviction that (a) informal roles and (b) teamwork roles have been overlooked in strategic core examinations. More specifically, I test whether various attributes of team members in informal and teamwork core roles relate more closely to team performance than the attributes of non-core peers. In doing so, I fill a gap in the strategic core literature by considering a more holistic perspective of the types of roles that can be central to the workflow of a team. Such an advancement offers promise towards better utilizing strategic core theory to comprehensively identify and support team members, and correspondingly team performance.
Completion Date
2026
Semester
Summer
Committee Chair
Burke, Shawn
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Format
Document Type
Thesis
Language
English
STARS Citation
Shorey, Allen Thomas, "Revisiting the foundation of strategic core theory: Informal roles and teamwork roles in work team centrality" (2026). Graduate Studies Theses and Dissertations 2026. 353.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/gradstudies_etd_2026/353
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