When can teams benefit from external advice ties? the asymmetric influence of spanners’ and receivers’ traits

Resumo

Leaning from external sources is a crucial but challenging task for improving team performance. Using the role-based team composition approach, we investigate how traits of team members in different roles—spanners and receivers—influence a team’s ability to benefit from its external advice ties. We argue that the interplay between spanners’ learning goal orientation and receivers’ agreeableness affect the influence of teams’ external advice ties on team performance. In 88 teams working over the course of 14 weeks, we find that team external advice ties influence team performance more positively when spanners’ learning goal orientation and receivers’ agreeableness are high. We discuss both theoretical and managerial implications of our findings.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2017

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/22008

Temas

Administração Pública

Palavras-chave

Team external advice tiesBoundary spanningTeam role compositionAgreeablenessLearning goal orientationAprendizagemOrientação do objetivo de aprendizagemAssessoria externa da equipeAdministração públicaGrupos de trabalhoAconselhamento de grupoAprendizagem organizacionalTransferência de aprendizagem