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Udo Konradt1, Michaéla C Schippers2, Sabrina Krys1
1Work and Organizational Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
Frontiers in Psychology
|June 24, 2021
Summary
Team reflection, a key process for team performance, tends to increase over time for complex tasks. This growth in reflection positively impacts team coordination and performance improvement, especially through implicit coordination mechanisms.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Team Dynamics
- Human-Computer Interaction
Background:
- Team reflection is a crucial transition process influencing team coordination and performance.
- Existing research offers an incomplete understanding of reflection's dynamics and its relation to action processes and performance outcomes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the long-term changes in team reflection over time.
- To explore the relationship between team reflection trajectories and implicit/explicit coordination processes.
- To examine the mediating role of implicit coordination in the link between team reflection and performance improvement.
Main Methods:
- A three-wave longitudinal study was conducted over two months with 175 teams.
- Growth curve modeling was employed to analyze changes in team reflection.
- Structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed relationships between reflection, coordination, and performance.
Main Results:
- Team reflection remained stable or increased over time for teams working on dissimilar tasks.
- Reflection trajectories showed a positive association with implicit coordination and a negative association with explicit coordination in later team phases.
- Implicit coordination was found to mediate the relationship between team reflection and performance improvement.
Conclusions:
- Team reflection is a dynamic process that can evolve over time, particularly in complex task environments.
- Fostering team reflection may enhance implicit coordination, leading to improved team performance.
- The findings support the integration of team reflexivity theory and the recurring phase model of team processes.
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