Linking Team Fluidity to Organizational Performance in Team-Centric Organizations

在以团队为中心的组织中将团队流动性与组织绩效联系起来

• 批准号: 1363513
• 负责人: David Mendonca
• 金额: $ 37.7万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-15 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1363513&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Linking; Team; Fluidity; Organizational; Performance

The domain of this work - post-disaster debris removal operations - has become a focal concern for both Federal and state governments as the threat of extreme wind events (such as hurricanes and tornadoes) has extended to areas outside the southeast United States. Rapid and efficient debris removal is the first step toward successful recovery from disasters. This work will marshal data associated with debris removal following a recent large-scale tornado storm in Alabama to investigate these phenomena. This work is expected to benefit society by contributing to its ability to plan for and respond to large-scale disasters, particularly by improving understanding of the determinants of debris removal performance. In particular, it should develop models and lessens that will speed up the recovery process and make communities more resilient to disaster impacts. It will advance discovery while promoting learning by developing educational materials which will be integrated into undergraduate- and graduate-level course work, as well as into materials for practicing professionals. It will broaden participation of under-represented groups through their inclusion in the research team and enhance research infrastructure through the creation of data sets and analytic tools for use by other researchers. Results of this work will be broadly disseminated through publications and presentations in academic and practitioner venues, to include seminars organized to introduce new tools and techniques to the practice of debris management. The central goal of this research is to extend and test theories that link team-level phenomena to organizational outcomes. The central focus is upon debris removal teams. A particular thrust of this work is on developing and evaluating new theory and methodologies to investigate (i) team-level phenomena that link team composition to team performance, and (ii) reciprocal relationships from team-level phenomena to organizational-level outcomes. To do so, it will extend current methodological approaches for examining these relationships within and across team and organizational levels. It will also explicitly model tradeoffs among different aspects of performance (effectiveness, efficiency and equality) in relation to team and organizational composition. This work benefits from access to a wealth of data associated with debris removal operations (including transactional records of every load of debris hauled by every team during this operation), as well as access to subject matter experts. A distinguishing feature of this research is its use of process-level data on team members and the work they perform. Validation will be undertaken from multiple perspectives, ranging from consultation with subject matter experts to archival research and classical statistical methods such as holdout samples.

随着极端风力事件(如飓风和龙卷风)的威胁扩展到美国东南部以外的地区，这项工作的领域--灾后碎片清除行动--已成为联邦和州政府关注的焦点。快速有效地清除碎片是成功从灾难中恢复的第一步。这项工作将整理阿拉巴马州最近一次大规模龙卷风风暴后与碎片清除相关的数据，以调查这些现象。预计这项工作将有助于提高社会规划和应对大规模灾害的能力，特别是通过增进对碎片清除绩效决定因素的了解，从而造福社会。特别是，它应该制定模型和经验教训，以加快恢复进程，并使社区更具抵御灾害影响的能力。它将通过开发教材来促进发现，同时促进学习，这些教材将被整合到本科生和研究生级别的课程工作中，以及作为实践专业人员的教材。它将通过纳入研究小组扩大代表不足群体的参与，并通过创建供其他研究人员使用的数据集和分析工具来加强研究基础设施。这项工作的成果将通过出版物和在学术和实践者场所的演讲广泛传播，包括举办研讨会，向碎片管理实践介绍新的工具和技术。这项研究的中心目标是扩展和测试将团队层面的现象与组织结果联系起来的理论。中心重点是碎片清除小组。这项工作的一个特别重点是开发和评估新的理论和方法，以研究(I)将团队组成与团队绩效联系起来的团队级现象，以及(Ii)从团队级现象到组织级结果的相互关系。为了做到这一点，它将扩展当前的方法论方法，以检查团队和组织级别内以及跨团队和组织级别的这些关系。它还将明确地模拟与团队和组织组成有关的绩效的不同方面(效力、效率和平等)之间的权衡。这项工作得益于能够获得与碎片清除行动有关的大量数据(包括每个小组在这一行动期间运送的每一批碎片的交易记录)，以及能够接触到专题专家。这项研究的一个显著特点是它使用了关于团队成员及其执行的工作的流程级数据。将从多个角度进行验证，从咨询专题专家到档案研究和经典统计方法，如坚持抽样。