Exhibiting leadership and facilitation behaviors in NPD project-based work: Does team personal style composition matter?

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Abstract

Teams are increasingly becoming primary in the way employees in organizations conduct work. Understanding what makes teams effective is especially important for new product development (NPD) teams, whose members often have diverse backgrounds and competencies. The effects of similarities and differences among team members in NPD project-based work influence every aspect of that work. We explored the relationship between project team composition attributes and project team members' team leadership and facilitation behaviors, drawing from the literature on similarity-attraction effect. Data from two time points that were 12-weeks apart were collected from 144 professional employees working in 48 project teams to test the study's hypotheses. Using HLM 6.0 (Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002), findings show that when it comes to project team composition, members of a team, who are similar on affective personal style traits, demonstrate greater team leadership and facilitation behaviors. We identify implications for generating productive team leadership and facilitation behaviors in NPD project-based work.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25-35
Number of pages11
JournalEMJ - Engineering Management Journal
Volume26
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2014

Keywords

  • Leadership and facilitation behaviors
  • NPD
  • Team member personal style composition

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