Title

Information Sharing And Team Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Keywords

group; hidden profile; information processing; information sampling bias; information sharing

Abstract

Information sharing is a central process through which team members collectively utilize their available informational resources. The authors used meta-analysis to synthesize extant research on team information sharing. Meta-analytic results from 72 independent studies (total groups = 4,795; total N = 17,279) demonstrate the importance of information sharing to team performance, cohesion, decision satisfaction, and knowledge integration. Although moderators were identified, information sharing positively predicted team performance across all levels of moderators. The information sharing-team performance relationship was moderated by the representation of information sharing (as uniqueness or openness), performance criteria, task type, and discussion structure by uniqueness (a 3-way interaction). Three factors affecting team information processing were found to enhance team information sharing: task demonstrability, discussion structure, and cooperation. Three factors representing decreasing degrees of member redundancy were found to detract from team information sharing: information distribution, informational interdependence, and member heterogeneity. © 2009 American Psychological Association.

Publication Date

3-1-2009

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volume

94

Issue

2

Number of Pages

535-546

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013773

Socpus ID

63149153996 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/63149153996

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