Title

Building Team Adaptive Capacity: The Roles Of Sensegiving And Team Composition

Keywords

Information sharing; Mental models; Sensegiving; Team adaptation; Team composition

Abstract

The current study draws on motivated information processing in groups theory to propose that leadership functions and composition characteristics provide teams with the epistemic and social motivation needed for collective information processing and strategy adaptation. Three-person teams performed a city management decision-making simulation (N = 74 teams; 222 individuals). Teams first managed a simulated city that was newly formed and required growth strategies and were then abruptly switched to a second simulated city that was established and required revitalization strategies. Consistent with hypotheses, external sensegiving and team composition enabled distinct aspects of collective information processing. Sensegiving prompted the emergence of team strategy mental models (i.e., cognitive information processing); psychological collectivism facilitated information sharing (i.e., behavioral information processing); and cognitive ability provided the capacity for both the cognitive and behavioral aspects of collective information processing. In turn, team mental models and information sharing enabled reactive strategy adaptation. © 2011 American Psychological Association.

Publication Date

5-1-2011

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volume

96

Issue

3

Number of Pages

525-540

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022622

Socpus ID

79956327007 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79956327007

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