Team Performance Management: Volume 23 Issue 3/4

A trap of optimizing skills use when allocating human resources to a multiple projects environment

Marco Leite, António J. Baptista, António M.R. Ribeiro

The purpose of this paper is to highlight possible hidden risks when allocating multi-skilled human resources to teams working in a multi-project environment. Are allocation…

The impact of within-team variance on transactive memory system development and team performance

Kylie Goodell King

The purpose of this paper is to describe the dispersion models, where within-team variance is the outcome of interest, and propose the application of these models to the…

Psychological contracts in self-directed work teams: Development of a validated scale and its effects on team commitment

Frits Schreuder, Rene Schalk, Jeroen de Jong

This study aims to examine reciprocal exchange in teams using a psychological contract (PC) framework. Adopting Rousseau’s conceptualization of the contract, the authors explore…

Top management team diversity and firm performance: exploring a function of age

Tomohiko Tanikawa, Soyeon Kim, Yuhee Jung

Based on socioemotional selectivity theory, the authors aimed to develop and test hypotheses that identify the direct effect of top management team (TMT) age diversity on firms’…

Emergence of team engagement under time pressure: role of team leader and team climate

Anshu Sharma, Jyotsna Bhatnagar

This paper aims to identify the determinants of team engagement emerging as a collective team-level phenomenon under time pressure context. The paper particularly explores how…

Dispersion beyond miles: configuration and performance in virtual teams

Ambika Prasad, Darleen DeRosa, Michael Beyerlein

The purpose of this paper is to understand different aspects of structural dispersion in virtual teams (VTs). The study measures five types of dispersion, their impact on VT…