The temporal coordination mechanism and its effect on team effectiveness in knowledge-based teams

Science Research Management ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6) : 145-156.

Zhang Gang¹, Cen Jie²

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The inherent ambiguity and variability of knowledge-based tasks require temporal coordination mechanism to eliminate temporal conflict and maintain the team as a whole, which are beyond the knowledge coordination. Aiming at the shortage of existing studies of team temporal coordination mechanism, which focus on explicit temporal coordination mechanism represented by team temporal leadership and overlook the implicit temporal coordination mechanism, this paper introduces team temporal mental model as implicit temporal coordination mechanism, investigating its relationship with team effectiveness and team temporal leadership. The results of the statistical analysis of 102 knowledge-based teams show that team temporal leadership and team temporal mental model has significant influence on team performance and members' satisfaction; team temporal mental model significantly mediates the relationship between team temporal leadership and team effectiveness; and team temporal pressure significantly moderates the relationship between the temporal leadership-temporal mental model and the temporal leadership-team effectiveness.

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knowledge-based team / temporal coordination mechanism / team effectiveness

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Zhang Gang, Cen Jie. The temporal coordination mechanism and its effect on team effectiveness in knowledge-based teams[J]. Science Research Management. 2015, 36(6): 145-156

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