Title

Measuring Shared Team Mental Models: A Meta-Analysis

Keywords

Cognition; Group; Mental model; Meta-analysis; Team

Abstract

Although shared team mental models are believed to be important to team functioning, substantial interstudy differences in the manner in which mental models are operationalized has impeded progress in this area. We use meta-analysis to cumulate 23 independent studies that have empirically examined shared mental models (SMMs) in relation to team process and performance and test three aspects of measurement as potential moderators: elicitation method, structure representation, and representation of emergence. Results indicate the way in which SMMs are measured and represented at the team level of analysis reveal meaningful distinctions in observed relationships. Specifically, shared mental model operationalization impacts the observed relationship between SMMs and team process; importantly, only methods that model the structure or organization of knowledge are predictive of process. Conversely, while the magnitude of the relationship differed across measurement method, SMMs were positively related to team performance regardless of the manner of operationalization. In summary, knowledge structure is predictive of team process, and both knowledge content and structure are predictive of team performance. © 2010 American Psychological Association.

Publication Date

3-1-2010

Publication Title

Group Dynamics

Volume

14

Issue

1

Number of Pages

1-14

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017455

Socpus ID

77949482181 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77949482181

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