Title
The Cognitive Underpinnings Of Effective Teamwork: A Meta-Analysis
Keywords
mental model; meta-analysis; shared cognition; team cognition; transactive memory
Abstract
Major theories of team effectiveness position emergent collective cognitive processes as central drivers of team performance. We meta-analytically cumulated 231 correlations culled from 65 independent studies of team cognition and its relations to teamwork processes, motivational states, and performance outcomes. We examined both broad relationships among cognition, behavior, motivation, and performance, as well as 3 underpinnings of team cognition as potential moderators of these relationships. Findings reveal there is indeed a cognitive foundation to teamwork; team cognition has strong positive relationships to team behavioral process, motivational states, and team performance. Meta-analytic regressions further indicate that team cognition explains significant incremental variance in team performance after the effects of behavioral and motivational dynamics have been controlled. The nature of emergence, form of cognition, and content of cognition moderate relationships among cognition, process, and performance, as do task interdependence and team type. Taken together, these findings not only cumulate extant research on team cognition but also provide a new interpretation of the impact of underlying dimensions of cognition as a way to frame and extend future research. © 2010 American Psychological Association.
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Publication Title
Journal of Applied Psychology
Volume
95
Issue
1
Number of Pages
32-53
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017328
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
76449101798 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/76449101798
STARS Citation
DeChurch, Leslie A. and Mesmer-Magnus, Jessica R., "The Cognitive Underpinnings Of Effective Teamwork: A Meta-Analysis" (2010). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 1847.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/1847