TY - JOUR
T1 - Leveraging a team-centric approach to diagnosing multiteam system functioning
T2 - The role of intrateam state profiles
AU - Shuffler, Marissa L.
AU - Kramer, William S.
AU - Carter, Dorothy R.
AU - Thayer, Amanda L.
AU - Rosen, Michael
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The increased reliance on team-based structures within 21st century organizations has sparked a stream of research investigating the drivers of collaboration within and across multiteam systems (MTS), comprised of distinct, interdependent component teams. To date, MTS research tends to rely on the simplified-and potentially inaccurate-assumption that component teams within a MTS are homogenous with regard to their emergent intrateam properties (e.g., team attitudes, behaviors, cognitions). We suggest that team-centric approaches may better characterize the ways in which emergent intrateam properties might vary across different MTS component teams-operationalized with what we term 'intrateam state profiles.' Leveraging cancer care MTSs as an illustrative example, we detail the need for team-centric approaches as complementary to traditional, variable-centric approaches to studying collective phenomena. Specifically, we explore intrateam state profiles as a mechanism for understanding complex interactions of emergent properties within teams that may profoundly affect system functioning and associated HRM practices.
AB - The increased reliance on team-based structures within 21st century organizations has sparked a stream of research investigating the drivers of collaboration within and across multiteam systems (MTS), comprised of distinct, interdependent component teams. To date, MTS research tends to rely on the simplified-and potentially inaccurate-assumption that component teams within a MTS are homogenous with regard to their emergent intrateam properties (e.g., team attitudes, behaviors, cognitions). We suggest that team-centric approaches may better characterize the ways in which emergent intrateam properties might vary across different MTS component teams-operationalized with what we term 'intrateam state profiles.' Leveraging cancer care MTSs as an illustrative example, we detail the need for team-centric approaches as complementary to traditional, variable-centric approaches to studying collective phenomena. Specifically, we explore intrateam state profiles as a mechanism for understanding complex interactions of emergent properties within teams that may profoundly affect system functioning and associated HRM practices.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028315158&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85028315158&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2017.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2017.08.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028315158
JO - Human Resource Management Review
JF - Human Resource Management Review
SN - 1053-4822
ER -