Shedding Light on Team Adaptation: Does Experience Matter?

Georganta, Eleni; Stracke, Selina; Brodbeck, Felix; Knipfer, Kristin und Burke, C. Shawn (2022): Shedding Light on Team Adaptation: Does Experience Matter? In: Small Group Research, Vol. 54, No. 4: pp. 474-511

Abstract

Investigating the team adaptation process in two laboratory experiments (N = 144 teams, n = 504 participants), we found no benefits for teams with team adaptation experience (vs. without) nor for teams with external team adaptation experience (vs. with internal experience). Collective experience under routine and nonroutine conditions seems to provide teams with the resources to adapt. We further found that executing the team adaptation process did not always lead to high team performance;different team performance requirements might explain these findings. We discuss how our experimental findings can extend our understanding of team adaptation toward new boundary conditions.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Psychology and Education Science > Department Psychology
• Subjects: 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 150 Psychology
• ISSN: 1046-4964
• Language: English
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 33237764