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Evaluation of the Team Workload Questionnaire (TWLQ) in a Team-Choice Task
Eric T Greenlee1, Gregory J Funke2, Lindsay Rice1
1Texas Tech University, Lubbock.
Objective:
The present study was designed to evaluate the team workload questionnaire (TWLQ) in a task that was distinct from the task used to create it.
Background:
The TWLQ was created from workload ratings generated by members of athletic sports teams. Given that such teams represent only a portion of the diversity of operational teams, we aimed to assess the generalizability of the TWLQ.
Method:
The present study applied the TWLQ in a collaborative choice task (hiring decision) to determine whether the factor structure reported in the initial publication of the scale would generalize from the execution tasks it was developed from to a disparate team task focused on consensus building.
Results:
Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the present data (N = 144) were a poor fit for the three-factor structure of the TWLQ. Subsequent exploratory factor analysis revealed a much more interrelated model of team workload with no clear division between the three conceptual factors described in the original validation of the TWLQ.
Conclusion:
The factor structure of the TWLQ did not generalize to the present team-choice task.
Application:
Given that the duties of operational teams vary, it is critical that future research examine how the conceptual structure of team workload may be altered by task type.
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