TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding the Role of Team Member Personal Style in Project Performance
T2 - Does the Type of Innovation Matter?
AU - Aronson, Zvi H.
AU - Reilly, Richard R.
AU - Lynn, Gary S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 World Scientific Publishing Company.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - Teams are progressively becoming primary in the way employees in organizations conduct work. We investigated the role of staff personal style in project performance for teams working on incremental and radical innovations. Regression results based on 149 teams suggest that, for employees, conscientiousness and agreeableness, predominantly, seem to be beneficial for new product development (NPD) performance. Slope tests promote our proposition that for speed, radical NPD might gain from extra open and stable staff. Further, exceedingly agreeable employees do not seem to provide support when new ideas are fostered, since it could be a precursor to group think and less successful innovation. We provide implications for selection and training of employees assigned to work in innovation teams.
AB - Teams are progressively becoming primary in the way employees in organizations conduct work. We investigated the role of staff personal style in project performance for teams working on incremental and radical innovations. Regression results based on 149 teams suggest that, for employees, conscientiousness and agreeableness, predominantly, seem to be beneficial for new product development (NPD) performance. Slope tests promote our proposition that for speed, radical NPD might gain from extra open and stable staff. Further, exceedingly agreeable employees do not seem to provide support when new ideas are fostered, since it could be a precursor to group think and less successful innovation. We provide implications for selection and training of employees assigned to work in innovation teams.
KW - Project teams
KW - innovation
KW - personal style
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U2 - 10.1142/S0219877019400029
DO - 10.1142/S0219877019400029
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052926008
SN - 0219-8770
VL - 16
JO - International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management
JF - International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management
IS - 4
M1 - 19400029
ER -