TY - JOUR
T1 - Team learning activities and team effectiveness
T2 - 69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2009
AU - Kostopoulos, Konstantinos C.
AU - Bozionelos, Nikolaos
AU - Prastacos, Gregory P.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The study conceptualized exploratory and exploitative learning as distinct team level activities, constructed measures of them, and examined their relationships with psychological safety and task conflict; as well as with team effectiveness. Data from 139 innovative project teams were utilized. Psychological safety was linearly and nonlinearly related to both team learning activities; and task conflict moderated the relationship between psychological safety and exploitative learning. Regarding the relationship with team effectiveness, exploratory and exploitative learning were additively related to it, and acted as mediators in the relationship of psychological safety with team effectiveness. The findings indicate the importance of team learning activities for team effectiveness, and underline the importance of team conditions for realizing the benefits of learning.
AB - The study conceptualized exploratory and exploitative learning as distinct team level activities, constructed measures of them, and examined their relationships with psychological safety and task conflict; as well as with team effectiveness. Data from 139 innovative project teams were utilized. Psychological safety was linearly and nonlinearly related to both team learning activities; and task conflict moderated the relationship between psychological safety and exploitative learning. Regarding the relationship with team effectiveness, exploratory and exploitative learning were additively related to it, and acted as mediators in the relationship of psychological safety with team effectiveness. The findings indicate the importance of team learning activities for team effectiveness, and underline the importance of team conditions for realizing the benefits of learning.
KW - Psychological safety
KW - Task conflict
KW - Team learning activities
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U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2009.44265881
DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2009.44265881
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85068111044
SN - 0065-0668
JO - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Y2 - 7 August 2009 through 11 August 2009
ER -
