Activating the Benefit of Diversity Through Team Role Clarity and Implicit Coordination

Shuai Chen; Jialin Cheng; Weiliang Wang; Da Teng

doi:10.1177/1046496420958131

Activating the Benefit of Diversity Through Team Role Clarity and Implicit Coordination

Shuai Chen, Jialin Cheng, Weiliang Wang, Da Teng

School of Strategy and Leadership

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Abstract

Over the last several decades, studies on the relationship between task knowledge diversity and team performance have yielded mixed findings. Extending past studies, we propose that the impact of task knowledge diversity on team performance is dependent on the level of team role clarity and implicit coordination. This study, based on two-wave time-lagged data from 62 teams comprising 336 individuals, provided support for the proposed model and
showed that team role clarity and implicit coordination moderate the relationship between task knowledge diversity and team performance. Overall, task knowledge diversity has a positive effect on team performance when either team role clarity or implicit coordination is high, and this effect is even stronger when both are high.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	379-404
Number of pages	26
Journal	Small Group Research
Volume	52
Issue number	4
Early online date	3 Dec 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496420958131
Publication status	Published - Aug 2021

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Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Grant No. LY19G020005) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71502162).

Keywords

implicit coordination
task knowledge diversity
team performance
team role clarity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Psychology
Applied Psychology

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